Hello, I'm an Associate Professor in Computer Science at Brown University. My research is in Human-Computer Interaction, where I am interested in building personalized systems based on user behavior data. These systems are applied to attention, mobile, and health. I am primarily funded by the NSF, NIH, and ARO, and have received the NSF CAREER award, Facebook Fellowship, and ARO Young Investigator Award.

My Ph.D. is in Information Science from the University of Washington in Seattle, and my masters and undergraduate degrees are in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). Before joining Brown, I analyzed search behavior at Microsoft Research, Google, Yahoo, and Bing. I co-founded World Blender, a Techstars-backed company that makes geolocation mobile games.

Brown University students interested in joining my group should review our active projects and read about the expectations. Ph.D. applicants please read the Student FAQ.

Recent News

Jun 2020   Ph.D. student Nedi is now Dr. Daskalova for pioneering flexible sleep and self-experimentation systems, and will become a research scientist at Spotify. Congrats!

Feb 2020   Got tenure along with a personal note from the Provost, "... The work you are doing is having a big impact in the world and in your field. And your students love you! Really proud of you." :-)

Sep 2019   Serving in the department as Chair of Ph.D. Admissions, Director of our Industry Partner Program, and Chair of Undergraduate Research

Jun 2019   After three years of work each, research about our systems Rewind and Portal-ble have been accepted for presentation later this year at UbiComp and UIST.

May 2018   Farewell and congratulations to Sachin Pendse and Lucy van Kleunen who have been accepted to HCI Ph.D. programs at Georgia Tech and the University of Colorado respectively. [Update: and Neille-Ann Tan and Marianne Aubin-Le Quere to the University of Washington and Cornell respectively]

Jun 2017   I'll be serving as a Program Chair for the CHIIR 2018 conference in New Jersey, and the HCI Track Chair for SIGIR 2018 in Ann Arbor.

Feb 2017   Congratulations to my Ph.D. student Alexandra for landing her dream position as Assistant Professor at Pomona College!

Jun 2016   Bought the Bannister House from Brown University as part of the Brown to Brown Home Ownership program.

Jan 2016   Excited to receive the NSF CAREER Award to start a project on Modeling User Touch and Motion Behaviors for Adaptive Interfaces in Mobile Devices.

Conference Papers

	Self-E: Smartphone-Supported Guidance for Customizable Self-Experimentation Nediyana Daskalova, Eindra Kyi, Kevin Ouyang, Arthur Borem, Sally Chen, Sung Hyun Park, Nicole Nugent, Jeff Huang CHI 2021    (conditionally accepted, 26.3% acceptance rate)
	Sochiatrist: Signals of Affect in Messaging Data Talie Massachi, Grant Fong, Varun Mathur, Sachin Pendse, Gabriela Hoefer, Jessica Fu, Chong Wang, Nikita Ramoji, Nicole Nugent, Megan Ranney, Daniel Dickstein, Michael Armey, Ellie Pavlick, Jeff Huang CSCW 2020    (41% acceptance rate)
	Sketchy: Drawing Inspiration from the Crowd Shaun Wallace, Brendan Le, Luis Leiva, Aman Haq, Ari Kintisch, Gabrielle Bufrem, Linda Chang, Jeff Huang CSCW 2020    (41% acceptance rate)
	SleepBandits: Guided Flexible Self-Experiments for Sleep Nediyana Daskalova, Jina Yoon, Yibing Wang, Cintia Araujo, Guillermo Beltran, Nicole Nugent, John McGeary, Joseph Jay Williams, Jeff Huang CHI 2020    (24.3% acceptance rate)
	Portal-ble: Intuitive Free-Hand Manipulation in Unbounded Smartphone-based Augmented Reality Jing Qian, Jiaju Ma, Xiangyu Li, Benjamin Attal, Haoming Lai, James Tompkin, John Hughes, Jeff Huang UIST 2019    (24.4% acceptance rate)
	Rewind: Automatically Reconstructing Everyday Memories with First-Person Perspectives Neille-Ann Tan, Han Sha, Eda Celen, Phucanh Tran, Kelly Wang, Gifford Cheung, Philip Hinch, Jeff Huang UbiComp 2019    (26.2% acceptance rate)
	EasyPZ.js: Interaction Binding For Pan and Zoom Visualizations Michail Schwab, James Tompkin, Jeff Huang, Michelle Borkin VIS 2019    (31.7% acceptance rate, short paper)
	Evaluating Pan and Zoom Timelines and Sliders Michail Schwab, Sicheng Hao, Olga Vitek, James Tompkin, Jeff Huang, Michelle Borkin CHI 2019    (23.8% acceptance rate)
	Investigating the Effectiveness of Cohort-Based Sleep Recommendations Nediyana Daskalova, Bongshin Lee, Jeff Huang, Chester Ni, Jessica Lundin UbiComp 2018    (27.9% acceptance rate)
	SEEDE: Simultaneous Execution and Editing in a Development Environment Steven Reiss, Qi Xin, Jeff Huang ASE 2018    (20% acceptance rate)
	Remotion: A Motion-Based Capture and Replay Platform of Mobile Device Interaction for Remote Usability Testing Jing Qian, Arielle Chapin, Alexandra Papoutsaki, Fumeng Yang, Klaas Nelissen, Jeff Huang UbiComp 2018    (27.9% acceptance rate)
	The Eye of the Typer: A Benchmark and Analysis of Gaze Behavior during Typing Alexandra Papoutsaki, Aaron Gokaslan, James Tompkin, Yuze He, Jeff Huang ETRA 2018    (34% acceptance rate)
	Lessons Learned from Two Cohorts of Personal Informatics Self-Experiments Nediyana Daskalova, Karthik Desingh, Alexandra Papoutsaki, Diane Schulze, Han Sha, Jeff Huang UbiComp 2017    (24.9% acceptance rate)
	Drafty: Enlisting Users to be Editors who Maintain Structured Data Shaun Wallace, Lucy van Kleunen, Marianne Aubin-Le Quere, Abraham Peterkin, Yirui Huang, Jeff Huang HCOMP 2017    (28.9% acceptance rate)
	SearchGazer: Webcam Eye Tracking for Remote Studies of Web Search Alexandra Papoutsaki, James Laskey, Jeff Huang CHIIR 2017    (42% acceptance rate, Best Paper Finalist)
	SleepCoacher: A Personalized Automated Self-Experimentation System for Sleep Recommendations Nediyana Daskalova, Danaë Metaxa-Kakavouli, Adrienne Tran, Nicole Nugent, Julie Boergers, John McGeary, Jeff Huang UIST 2016    (20.6% acceptance rate)
	WebGazer: Scalable Webcam Eye Tracking Using User Interactions Alexandra Papoutsaki, Patsorn Sangkloy, James Laskey, Nediyana Daskalova, Jeff Huang, James Hays IJCAI 2016    (25% acceptance rate)
	Crowdsourcing from Scratch: A Pragmatic Experiment in Data Collection by Novice Requesters Alexandra Papoutsaki, Hua Guo, Danae Metaxa-Kakavouli, Connor Gramazio, Jeff Rasley, Wenting Xie, Guan Wang, Jeff Huang HCOMP 2015    (30% acceptance rate, Best Paper Finalist)
	Masters of Control: Behavioral Patterns of Simultaneous Unit Group Manipulation in StarCraft 2 Eddie Yan, Jeff Huang, Gifford Cheung CHI 2015    (23% acceptance rate)
	A Strategy-Aware Technique for Learning Behaviors from Discrete Human Feedback Robert Loftin, James MacGlashan, Bei Peng, Matthew Taylor, Michael Littman, Jeff Huang, David Roberts AAAI 2014    (28% acceptance rate)
	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    (20% acceptance rate, Best Paper Finalist)
	RevMiner: An Extractive Interface for Navigating Reviews on a Smartphone Jeff Huang, Oren Etzioni, Luke Zettlemoyer, Kevin Clark, Christian Lee UIST 2012    (21.5% acceptance rate)
	Improving Searcher Models Using Mouse Cursor Activity Jeff Huang, Ryen White, Georg Buscher, Kuansan Wang SIGIR 2012    (20% acceptance rate)
	User See, User Point: Gaze and Cursor Alignment in Web Search Jeff Huang, Ryen White, Georg Buscher CHI 2012    (23% acceptance rate)
	No Search Result Left Behind: Branching Behavior with Browser Tabs Jeff Huang, Thomas Lin, Ryen White WSDM 2012    (20.7% acceptance rate)
	Large-Scale Analysis of Individual and Task Differences in Search Result Page Examination Strategies Georg Buscher, Ryen White, Susan Dumais, Jeff Huang WSDM 2012    (20.7% acceptance rate)
	Remix and Play: Lessons from Rule Variants in Texas Hold'em and Halo 2 Gifford Cheung and Jeff Huang CSCW 2012    (39% acceptance rate)
	Interactive Search Support for Difficult Web Queries Abdigani Diriye, Giridhar Kumaran, Jeff Huang ECIR 2012    (21% acceptance rate)
	No Clicks, No Problem: Using Cursor Movements to Understand and Improve Search Jeff Huang, Ryen White, and Susan Dumais CHI 2011    (26% acceptance rate, Best Paper Finalist)
	Starcraft from the Stands: Understanding the Game Spectator Gifford Cheung and Jeff Huang CHI 2011    (26% acceptance rate)
	Optimal Strategies for Reviewing Search Results Jeff Huang and Anna Kazeykina AAAI 2010    (26.9% acceptance rate)
	Assessing the Scenic Route: Measuring the Value of Search Trails in Web Logs Ryen White and Jeff Huang SIGIR 2010    (16.7% acceptance rate, Best Paper Award)
	Studying Trailfinding Algorithms for Enhanced Web Search Adish Singla, Ryen White, and Jeff Huang SIGIR 2010    (16.7% acceptance rate)
	Conversational Tagging in Twitter Jeff Huang, Katherine Thornton, and Efthimis Efthimiadis Hypertext 2010    (35% acceptance rate, short paper)
	Parallel Browsing Behavior on the Web Jeff Huang and Ryen White Hypertext 2010    (35% acceptance rate, short paper)
	Analyzing and Evaluating Query Reformulation Strategies in Web Search Logs Jeff Huang and Efthimis Efthimiadis CIKM 2009    (14.5% acceptance rate, Best Student Paper Finalist)
	Graphstract: Minimal Graphical Help for Computers Jeff Huang and Michael Twidale UIST 2007    (17% acceptance rate)

Journal Papers

	An Analysis of Automated Visual Analysis Classification: Interactive Visualization Task Inference of Cancer Genomics Domain Experts Connor Gramazio, Jeff Huang, David Laidlaw Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 24(8), 2017
	Master Maker: Understanding Gaming Skill through Practice and Habit from Gameplay Behavior Jeff Huang, Eddie Yan, Gifford Leung, Nachiappan Nagappan, Thomas Zimmermann Topics in Cognitive Science, 9(2), 2017
	Strokes of Insight: User Intent Detection and Kinematic Compression of Mouse Cursor Trails Daniel Martín-Albo, Luis Leiva, Jeff Huang, Réjean Plamondond Information Processing & Management, 52(6), 2016
	Learning Behaviors via Human-Delivered Discrete Feedback Robert Loftin, Bei Peng, James MacGlashan, Michael Littman, Matthew Taylor, Jeff Huang, David Roberts Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 30(1), 2016
	Representing Uncertainty in Graph Edges: An Evaluation of Paired Visual Variables Hua Guo, Jeff Huang, David Laidlaw Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 21(10), 2015
	Building a Better Mousetrap: Compressing Mouse Cursor Activity for Web Analytics Luis Leiva, Jeff Huang Information Processing & Management, 51(2), 2015

Workshop Papers

	Learning Something from Nothing: Leveraging Implicit Human Feedback Strategies Robert Loftin, Bei Peng, James MacGlashan, Michael Littman, Matthew Taylor, Jeff Huang, David Roberts RO-MAN 2014
	Influence of Gameplay on Skill in Halo Reach Jeff Huang, Thomas Zimmermann, Nachiappan Nagappan, Charles Harrison, Bruce Phillips CHI Games User Research Workshop 2013
	Web User Interaction Mining from Touch-Enabled Mobile Devices Jeff Huang and Abdigani Diriye HCIR Workshop 2012
	On the Value of Page-Level Interactions in Web Search Jeff Huang HCIR Workshop 2011