Bin Tan Ph. D. Candidate Advisor: Prof. Chengxiang Zhai Text Information Management Group (TIMAN) Department of Computer Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Email:

Biography

I was born in Suzhou, China. My Chinese name is

I received my B.S. from Nanjing University. I am now a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at UIUC. I am working on information retrieval problems and advised by Prof. Chengxiang Zhai.

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Research Interests

I am interested in information retrieval and text mining problems (especially the application oriented ones). My focus is on contextual search, a problem that has been recognized as a key to improve current search engines' retrieval quality. By leveraging on search contexts (any useful information beyond the query), we can capture different users' informtion need more accurately, and serve them better with personalized search results. My current work exploits a user's short-term and long-term search history (queries and clicked results) for search context. It is part of the UCAIR (User-Centered Adaptive Information Retrieval) project, with an application UCAIR Toolbar (msi installer), a web search toolbar for IE with personalization capability.

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