Jaime Teevan, Ph.D. teevan@microsoft.com One Microsoft Way Redmond, WA 98052 (425) 421-9299 Home * Work * Publications

Affiliation: Context, Learning, and User Experience for Search (CLUES), Microsoft Research

My research centers around helping people interact better with their information. Three areas of current focus are:

	Personalized Search Personalizing the search experience for an individual means figuring out the most relevant information to provide to that individual. I am exploring when a system should personalize results, how group information can be used to improve personalization, and how people differ in their search habits based on their expertise in a particular domain.
	Customized Search Personalization is one way to help people better find their information target. The search experience can also be improved by helping people better express what they are looking for, and better understand the available content. In a way, the search process can be seen as a dialog between the searcher and the system. In support of customized search, I have been exploring faceted Web search and the use of visual document representations for finding and re-finding.
	Search in Dynamic Information Environments I am also very interested in helping people successfully interact with dynamic information environments like the Web. I am looking at how we can help people understand relevant change, and how we can help them re-find previously viewed content despite change.

The work I do falls at the intersection of information retrieval, human-computer interaction, machine learning, and information science. While I enjoy contributing to each field individually, personal information management (PIM) is an emerging field that bridges many of my interests, and I am also actively involved in the creation of a PIM community.

Graduate school: MIT > CSAIL > Haystack
Undergraduate: Yale University > Timothy Dwight
Personal Web site: http://www.teevan.org