Jeff Huang

University of Washington



I'm a fourth-year information science PhD candidate at the University of Washington in Seattle. My research area is information retrieval (web search), specifically mining search behavior (like mouse movements) and opinions (demo). My masters and undergraduate degrees are in computer science from the University of Illinois (UIUC).

I have analyzed search behavior at: Yahoo (employee), Google (intern × 2), and Microsoft Research (intern × 3). I'm a Facebook Fellow and funded by a Google Research Award. I taught the UW iSchool graduate-level information retrieval class in 2010, and co-founded a Techstars-backed company called World Blender that makes geolocation mobile games. See my Resume for details.

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Recent Papers

Improving Searcher Models Using Cursor Activity
Jeff Huang, Ryen W. White, Georg Buscher, Kuansan Wang
SIGIR 2012, to appear.    (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, to appear.    (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 Finalist)

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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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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)

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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)

Other

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

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

A position paper I wrote: On the Value of Page-Level Interactions in Web Search for the HCIR workshop.

Contact

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