Jeff Huang

University of Washington



I'm a fifth and final year information science PhD candidate at the University of Washington in Seattle, advised by Susan Dumais. My research areas are in information retrieval and human-computer interaction, specifically in decoding the fundamental human behavior inherent in large-scale data. My dissertation develops new techniques to collect users' mouse cursor activity in web search to model users' attention and identify relevant search results. My masters and undergraduate degrees are in computer science from the University of Illinois (UIUC).

I have analyzed search behavior at: Yahoo (full-time), Google (2-time intern), and Microsoft Research (4-time intern). I'm a Facebook Fellow and also funded by a Google Research Award. I taught the UW iSchool graduate-level information retrieval class, and co-founded a Techstars-backed company that makes geolocation mobile games. See my CV for details.

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Recent Papers


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Mastering the Art of War: How Patterns of Gameplay Influence Skill in Halo
Jeff Huang, Thomas Zimmermann, Nachiappan Nagappan, Charles Harrison, Bruce Phillips
CHI 2013, 695-704.    (20% acceptance, Best Paper Honorable Mention)

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RevMiner: An Extractive Interface for Navigating Reviews on a Smartphone
Jeff Huang, Oren Etzioni, Luke Zettlemoyer, Kevin Clark, Christian Lee
UIST 2012, pp. 3-12.    (21.5% acceptance)

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Improving Searcher Models Using Mouse Cursor Activity
Jeff Huang, Ryen W. White, Georg Buscher, Kuansan Wang
SIGIR 2012, pp. 195-204.    (20% acceptance)

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User See, User Point: Gaze and Cursor Alignment in Web Search
Jeff Huang, Ryen W. White, Georg Buscher
CHI 2012, pp. 1341-1350.    (23% acceptance)

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No Search Result Left Behind: Branching Behavior with Browser Tabs
Jeff Huang, Thomas Lin, Ryen W. White
WSDM 2012, pp. 203-212.    (20.7% acceptance)

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Large-Scale Analysis of Individual and Task Differences in Search Result Page Examination Strategies
Georg Buscher, Ryen W. White, Susan T. Dumais, Jeff Huang
WSDM 2012, pp. 373-382.    (20.7% acceptance)

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Remix and Play: Lessons from Rule Variants in Texas Hold'em and Halo 2
Gifford Cheung and Jeff Huang
CSCW 2012, pp. 559-568.    (39% acceptance)

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Interactive Search Support for Difficult Web Queries
Abdigani Diriye, Giridhar Kumaran, Jeff Huang
ECIR 2012, pp. 37-49.    (21% acceptance)

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No Clicks, No Problem: Using Cursor Movements to Understand and Improve Search
Jeff Huang, Ryen W. White, and Susan T. Dumais
CHI 2011, pp. 1225-1234.    (26% acceptance, Best Paper Honorable Mention)

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Starcraft from the Stands: Understanding the Game Spectator
Gifford Cheung and Jeff Huang
CHI 2011, pp. 763-772.    (26% acceptance)

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Optimal Strategies for Reviewing Search Results
Jeff Huang and Anna Kazeykina
AAAI 2010, pp. 1321-1326.    (26.9% acceptance)

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Assessing the Scenic Route: Measuring the Value of Search Trails in Web Logs
Ryen W. White and Jeff Huang
SIGIR 2010, pp. 587-594.    (16.7% acceptance, Best Paper Award)

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Studying Trailfinding Algorithms for Enhanced Web Search
Adish Singla, Ryen W. White, and Jeff Huang
SIGIR 2010, pp. 443-450.    (16.7% acceptance)

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Analyzing and Evaluating Query Reformulation Strategies in Web Search Logs
Jeff Huang and Efthimis N. Efthimiadis
CIKM 2009, pp. 77-86.    (14.5% acceptance, Best Paper Finalist)

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Graphstract: Minimal Graphical Help for Computers
Jeff Huang and Michael B. Twidale
UIST 2007, pp. 203-212.    (17% acceptance)

Short Papers and Workshop Papers

Influence of Gameplay on Skill in Halo Reach
Jeff Huang, Thomas Zimmermann, Nachiappan Nagappan, Charles Harrison, Bruce Phillips
CHI Games User Research Workshop 2013.

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Web User Interaction Mining from Touch-Enabled Mobile Devices
Jeff Huang and Abdigani Diriye
HCIR Workshop 2012.

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On the Value of Page-Level Interactions in Web Search
Jeff Huang
HCIR Workshop 2011.

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Conversational Tagging in Twitter
Jeff Huang, Katherine Thornton, and Efthimis N. Efthimiadis
Hypertext 2010, pp. 173-177.    (35% acceptance)

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Parallel Browsing Behavior on the Web
Jeff Huang and Ryen W. White
Hypertext 2010, pp. 13-17.    (35% acceptance)

Recent Press

97.3 KIRO FM
University of Washington student wins Facebook Fellowship


MIT Technology Review
The Next Big Thing in Analytics: Tracking Your Cursor's Every Move


Kotaku
Why, Exactly, Do People Enjoy Watching StarCraft Games?


GeekWire
'Hello, computer!' UW prof and students search outside the box


PNAS
Kickstart your research


Slashdot
Researchers Track Mouse Movements and Hesitations


The Escapist
Research Paper Attempts to Prove Why StarCraft Is Fun to Watch


Seattle Times
Facebook "fellows" two UW students


Slashdot
Why People Watch StarCraft, Instead of Playing


PC Magazine
Invisible Cursor-Tracking Program Knows What Your Eyes Have Seen


Wall Street Journal
Geeks Beat Jocks as Bar Fight Breaks Out Over Control of the TV


Fresh Consulting
World Blender: Transforming the Gaming Landscape


ZDNet
2012-2013 Facebook Fellowship winners announced


1Up.com
Why We Love StarCraft So Much


Other

I collected the best paper awards in computer science since 1996 on a single page.

A list of places you can download web search engine query logs.

I'm kind of obsessive with making my papers look nice. Here are my notes for publishing Word papers.

Contact

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