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EDUCATION  
      Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
      Ph.D., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, January 2007.
Thesis: Supporting Finding and Re-Finding Through Personalization
Advisor: Prof. David R. Karger
Committee Members: Prof. Mark S. Ackerman, Susan T. Dumais, Prof. Robert C. Miller
 
S.M., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, June 2001.
Thesis: Improving Information Retrieval: Bayesian Models and Beyond
Advisor: Prof. David R. Karger
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
 
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Researcher, Microsoft Research, 2006 - Present.
Studied the history of digital content (how the content has changed and how people have interacted with it over time) and built tools to take advantage of that history. Developed a community of researchers interested in personal information management. Published numerous papers, presented research to the academic community, and influenced product decisions.
Research Assistant, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, 1999 - 2006.
Explored re-finding in dynamic information environments. Developed the Re:Search Engine, a tool to support re-finding by preserving previous search contexts. Devised a generative document model for information retrieval that more closely matches real text data than previous nave Bayesian models.
Research Intern, Microsoft Research, Spring 2004.
Investigated the variation in goals of people using Web search engines. Developed a system to personalize Web search results by implicitly inferring the user's intent based on previously encountered information.
Software Engineer, Infoseek, Summer 1997, July 1998 - August 1999. Recipient Go Getter Award.
Researched Internet organization and 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 customer initiation environment for E*Trade. Implemented models to understand the design decisions. Performed log analysis of traffic patterns of Samsung's Web site.
 
AWARDS AND HONORS
Delphi Fellow, Big Think, 2011.
Microsoft Corporate R&D Accelerated Development Program, 2010 - 2011. TR35 2009 Young Innovator, Technology Review, 2009.
Financial Technology Option (FTO), MIT Sloan School, 2003.
Recipient of Infoseek Corporation's Go Getter Award, 1999.
Computer Research Association Outstanding Undergraduate Award, honorable mention, 1998.
Invited to membership in Tau Beta Pi, 1997.
FELLOWSHIPS
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, 1999-2003.
National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship, honorable mention, 1998.
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.
 
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Chair, Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM), 2012.
Organizer, Personal Information Management (PIM) workshop, 2008 - 2011.
Organizer, Desktop Search: Understanding, Supporting, and Evaluating Personal Data Search, 2010.
Organizer, Understanding the User: Logging and Interpreting User Interactions in Information Search and Retrieval, 2009.
Organizer, Query Log Analysis: Social And Technological Challenges, 2007.
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 - 2006.
Organizer, Haystack Reading Group, 2003.
Institute Representative, Faculty Committee on the Library System, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 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 - 2006.
Participant, Rights and Responsibilities in Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001.
Member, ACM, ASIST, SIGIR, SIGCHI.
Senior Program Committee, CHI.
Program Committee, ASIST, CHI, CIKM, IIiX, SIGIR, UIST, WSDM, WWW.
Reviewer, AAAI, ASIST, CACM, CHI, CIKM, CSCW, ECIR, FnT in HCI, GI, HCI, HCIR, ICWSM, IIiX, IWC, SIGIR, TKDE, TOCHI, TOIS, TWeb, UIST, WSDM, WWW.
 
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Teaching Assistant, 6.893, User Interface Design and Implementation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Fall 2003. Instructor: Prof. Robert C. Miller
Teaching Assistant, 6.042, Mathematics for Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Fall 2001. Instructors: Prof. Albert Myer, Prof. Radhika Nagpal
Supervisor, Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Spring 2005.
 
INTERNS SUPERVISED
List of interns can be found here.
 
PUBLICATIONS
Publications available electronically here.
 
REFERENCES
Susan T. Dumais
Microsoft Research
Redmond, WA 98052
(425) 936-8049
sdumais@microsoft.com
  Prof. David R. Karger
CSAIL, MIT
Cambridge, MA 02139
(617) 258-6167
karger@lcs.mit.edu
  Prof. Robert C. Miller
CSAIL, MIT
Cambridge, MA 02139
(617) 324-6028
rcm@lcs.mit.edu
  Prof. Mark S. Ackerman
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
(734) 763-5439
ackerm@umich.edu
Additional references available upon request.