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Susan Gauch

Susan Gauch sgauch@eecs.ku.edu
http://www.ittc.ku.edu/~sgauch/

785.864.8817

2024 Eaton Hall
1520 West 15th Street
Lawrence KS 66045-7621

Education:

  • Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1990
  • M.Sc. in Computer Science, Queen's University at Kingston, Ontario, Canada, 1982
  • Honours B.Sc. in Mathematics Computer Science, Queen's University at Kingston, Ontario, Canada, 1981

Teaching:

  • Introductory Programming
  • Data Structures and Algorithms
  • Databases
  • Software Engineering
  • Information Retrieval

Service:

  • Vice-Chair, ACM Special Interest Group in Information Retrieval (SIGIR), 1999 – 2003.
  • Workshops Chair for ACM SIGIR 2001.
  • General Chair for the 2000 Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2000).

Research:

  • Multimedia Databases
  • Intelligent Search Agents
  • Searching the World Wide Web
  • Corpus Linguistics
  • Ontologies for Search and Browsing
  • Personalized Information Access
  • Conceputal Search

Affiliations:

  • ACM
  • ACM/SIGIR
  • ASIS
  • IEEE

Memberships:

  • ACM
  • ACM/SIGIR

Honors:

  • Miller Scholar, School of Engineering, University of Kansas, August 2003
  • Miller Scholar, School of Engineering, University of Kansas, August 1999
  • Miller Research Award, School of Engineering, University of Kansas, May 1998

Selected Publications:

  • "Personalized Search based on User Search Histories," Mirco Speretta and Susan Gauch, 2005 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI’05), Compeigne University of Technology, Compeigne France, September 19-22, 2005. pp. 622-628.
  • "Ontology-Based User Profiles for Search and Browsing," Susan Gauch, Jason Chaffee, and Alexander Pretschner, Web Intelligence and Agent Systems, Vol. 1, No. 3-4, April 2004, pp. 219-234.
  • "Repeated Video Sequence Identification and Tracking," Kok Meng Pua, John M. Gauch, Susan E. Gauch, and Jedrzej Miadowicz, Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU), Vol. 93, No. 3, March 2004, pp. 310-327.

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