Ryen W. White

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A: Bg 99/Rm 3373 [see|map]
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Pics: Resa/Ryen (Montana 08)

I'm a researcher in the Context, Learning, and User Experience for Search (CLUES) group at Microsoft Research in Redmond. My research interests include exploratory search, implicit feedback, log analysis, and the evaluation of search systems with humans and simulations.

Our theme issue of IEEE Computer magazine entitled "Beyond Search: Information Seeking Support Systems" came out in March 2009. This issue emerged from our National Science Foundation IS3 workshop, hosted by UNC-Chapel Hill in June 2008. See the guest editors' introduction for more details.

Our new book entitled "Exploratory Search: Beyond the Query-Response Paradigm" was published by Morgan and Claypool in March 2009 as part of their Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval & Services.
Order from: Morgan & Claypool | Amazon | Barnes & Noble

We're organizing the Fourth Human-Computer Information Retrieval (HCIR) workshop on August 22, 2010 at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ. The event will be held in conjunction with IIiX 2010.

I am serving as an Area Chair for Search at WWW 2010 and an Area Chair for Web IR and Social Media Search at SIGIR 2010.

We received the SIGIR 2007 Best Paper Award for our research paper entitled "Studying the Use of Popular Destinations to Enhance Web Search Interaction".

I received the British Computer Society's Distinguished Dissertation Award for the best Computer Science PhD dissertation in the United Kingdom for 2005.