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.

Recent Papers

pdf	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)

pdf	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)

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

pdf	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)

pdf	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)

pdf	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)

pdf	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)

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

pdf	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)

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

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

pdf	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)

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

pdf	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)

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

Short Papers and Workshop Papers

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

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

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

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

Recent Press