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.