jaime@teevan.org
13109 NE 38th Place
Bellevue, WA 98005
(425) 556-9753
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Jaime Teevan jaime@teevan.org 13109 NE 38th Place Bellevue, WA 98005 (425) 556-9753 Home * Work * Personal |
| EDUCATION | |||||||||
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA | |||||||||
| Ph.D., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, January 2007. Thesis: The Re:Search Engine: Helping People Return to Information on the Web Advisor: Prof. David R. Karger S.M., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, June 2001. Thesis: Improving Information Retrieval: Bayesian Models and Beyond Advisor: Prof. David R. Karger |
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| Yale University, New Haven, CT | |||||||||
| B.S., Computer Science, May 1998. Cum laude, with distinction in major. Senior thesis: Automatically Creating High Quality Internet Directories Advisor: Prof. Gregory D. Hager | |||||||||
| OBJECTIVE | |||||||||
| Research interests lie at the intersection of information retrieval, human-computer interaction and machine learning, with the objective of helping people interact better with their personal electronic information. | |||||||||
| AWARDS AND HONORS | |||||||||
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Financial Technology Option (FTO), MIT Sloan School, 2003. Recipient of Infoseek Corporation's Go Getter Award, 1999. Invited to membership in Tau Beta Pi, 1997. | |||||||||
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FELLOWSHIPS National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, 1999-2003. National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship, honorable mention, 1998. | |||||||||
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YALE UNIVERSITY Graduated Yale University Cum laude, with distinction in major, 1998. Master's Cup, Timothy Dwight College, 1998. J. Edward Meeker Prize for Excellence in Freshman composition, 1995. Bloch Prize for the Freshman who shall write the best essay in English, 1995. | |||||||||
| RESEARCH EXPERIENCE | |||||||||
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | |||||||||
| Research Assistant, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, 1999 - present. | |||||||||
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Re-finding Information on the Web, 2001 - present. Advisors: Prof. David R. Karger, Prof. Robert C. Miller, Prof. Mark S. Ackerman, Susan T. Dumais | |||||||||
| Studied how people return to information on the Web. Found that problems arise when online information changes because known paths are destroyed. Developed the Re:Search Engine, a tool to assist with re-finding. The Re:Search Engine preserves the salient features of previous interactions while still presenting new information as it becomes available. | |||||||||
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Interaction with Personal Electronic Information, 2001 - 2004. Advisors: Prof. David R. Karger, Prof. Mark S. Ackerman | |||||||||
| Designed and conducted an in-depth observational study of 15 people's interactions with their personal electronic information. Discovered a significant but under-supported style of interaction in which people locate specific information by associating it with an information source and then navigating to that source. This work has influenced the development of the Re:Search Engine and Haystack, a personal information management tool being developed at MIT. | |||||||||
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Empirical Development of an Exponential Probabilistic Model for Text
Retrieval, 1999 - 2003. Advisor: Prof. David R. Karger | |||||||||
| Explored several assumptions underlying the naive Bayesian framework of information retrieval by performing computational analysis of actual corpora and queries. Devised a generative document model that more closely matches text than previous models. Because the new model is more accurate, it is useful for information retrieval tasks and other applications. | |||||||||
| MICROSOFT RESEARCH | |||||||||
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Personalizing Web Search, 2004. Advisors: Susan T. Dumais, Eric Horvitz | |||||||||
| Investigated the variation in goals of people using Web search engines. Found great variance in the search results that individuals found relevant for the same query -- even when those users expressed their underlying query intent in the same way. In response, developed a system to personalize Web search results by implicitly inferring the user's intent based on previously encountered information. | |||||||||
| YALE UNIVERSITY | |||||||||
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Automatically Creating High Quality Internet Directories, 1997 - 1998. Advisor: Prof. Gregory D. Hager | |||||||||
| Investigated how to automatically create high quality Internet directories. Developed an early system that took advantage of the link structure of the Internet by looking for commonly occurring links on related, human-maintained Web pages. Generated Internet directories of comparable quality to human created directories. Sold to Infoseek Corporation to aid in its manual directory generation. | |||||||||
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Robot World Cup Soccer Games (RoboCup), 1997 - 1998. Advisors: Prof. Gregory D. Hager, Prof. David J. Kriegman | |||||||||
| Team member of the Yale University's F2000 Middle Size League robotic soccer team that competed at the Robot World Cup Soccer Games. Designed and implemented all on board control of the four robotic players and robot goalie. The team won two of three games played to advance to the single elimination portion of the tournament and finished best of the US teams in the league. | |||||||||
| TEACHING EXPERIENCE | |||||||||
| Teaching Assistant, 6.893, User Interface Design and Implementation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Fall 2003. Instructor: Prof. Robert C. Miller | |||||||||
| Helped write problem sets and exams. Assisted students with homework problems and material they found difficult to understand. Presented a guest lecture on Computer Supported Cooperative Work. | |||||||||
| Teaching Assistant, 6.042, Mathematics for Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Fall 2001. Instructors: Prof. Albert Myer, Prof. Radhika Nagpal | |||||||||
| Lead weekly discussion sections. Participated in lecture presentations. Helped write problem sets and exams. Assisted students individually with homework problems and material they found difficult to understand. | |||||||||
| Supervisor, Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Spring 2005. | |||||||||
| Supervised undergraduate researcher. Provided guidance in choosing and completing research goals. Held weekly meetings. | |||||||||
| Guest Lecturer, ENGR3220, Human Factors and Interface Design, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering, May 2005. Instructor: Prof. Lynn Andreas Stein | |||||||||
| INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE | |||||||||
| Research Intern, Microsoft Research, Spring 2004. | |||||||||
| See description of research conducted under RESEARCH EXPERIENCE. | |||||||||
| Software Engineer, Infoseek Corporation, Summer 1997, July 1998 - August 1999. Recipient Go Getter Award. | |||||||||
| Researched the organization of the Internet, as well as methods for determining Web page quality. Lead engineer for the software controlling all inter- and intra-application navigation. Worked with application teams to enable them to take advantage of the powerful navigation software built by my group. | |||||||||
| Summer Intern, Cornerstone Consulting Group, Summer 1996. | |||||||||
| Worked as part of a team to design new customer initiation environment for E*Trade. Implemented simulation models of customer initiation environments. Performed log analysis to understand traffic patterns of Samsung's Web site. | |||||||||
| PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES | |||||||||
| Founder and Organizer, Student Workshop for Information Retrieval and Language (SWIRL), 2004. | |||||||||
| Founder and Organizer, Human Computer Interaction Seminar Series, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, 2003 - present. | |||||||||
| Organizer, Haystack Reading Group, 2003. | |||||||||
| Institute Representative, Faculty Committee on the Library System, 2003 - 2005. | |||||||||
| Graduate Student Council Representative, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002 - 2003. Academics, Research and Careers Committee, Funding Board. | |||||||||
| Member, Graduate Women of Course 6 (GW6), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001 - present. | |||||||||
| Participant, Rights and Responsibilities in Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001. | |||||||||
| Member, ACM, SIGIR, SIGCHI, Greater Boston SIGCHI. | |||||||||
| Program Committee, IIiX, SOW. | |||||||||
| Reviewer, SIGIR, CHI, UIST, CSCW, GI, AAAI, SOW, IWC, IIiX, HCI, TOIS. | |||||||||
| Organizer and participant in numerous CSAIL activities, including the AI Olympics, Graduate Student Lunch, New Graduate Student Orientation, and various reading groups. | |||||||||
| PUBLICATIONS | |||||||||
| Publications available electronically here. | |||||||||
| REFERENCES | |||||||||
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| Additional references available upon request. | |||||||||