Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval
University of Massachusetts Amherst

CIIR

Department of Computer Science
140 Governors Drive
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Amherst, MA 01003-9264

Phone: 413-545-0463

CIIR Faculty

W. Bruce Croft Director, Principal Investigator, Distinguished Professor
Phone: (413) 545-0463
Fax: (413) 545-1789
Email: croft@cs.umass.edu

James Allan co-Director,
Associate Professor
Phone: (413) 545-3240
Fax: (413) 545-1789
Email: allan@cs.umass.edu

R. Manmatha Research Associate Professor
Phone: (413) 545-3623
Fax: (413) 545-1789
Email: manmatha@cs.umass.edu

Andrew McCallum Associate Professor
Phone: (413) 545-1323
Fax: (413) 545-1789
Email: mccallum@cs.umass.edu

Administrative Staff

Jean C. Joyce
Administrative Director
Email: jean

Kate Moruzzi
Center Secretary
Email: kate

Glenn Stowell
Business Manager
Email: stowell

Additional Technical Personnel

Gavin Andresen (IESL) - andresen
Robert Armstrong (IR) - boba
David Fisher (IR) - dfisher
Andre Gauthier (IR) - gauthier

Khash Rohanimesh (IESL) - khash
Adam Saunders (IESL) - saunders
Kamal Souccar (IR) - souccar
Hanna Wallach (IESL) wallach

Graduate Students

Elif Aktolga (IR) - elif
Niranjan Balasubramanian (IR) - niranjan
Kedar Bellare (IESL) - kedarb
Michael Bendersky (IR) - bemike
Ben Carterette (IR) - carteret
Marc Cartright (IR) - irmarc
Guarav Chandalia (IESL) - gsc
Aron Culotta (IESL) - culotta
Gregory Druck (IESL) - gdruck
Henry Feild (IR) - hfeild
Ao Feng (IR) - aofeng
Shaolei Feng (MIR) - slfeng
Rob Hall (IESL) - rwhall
Gary Huang (IESL) - ghuang

Pallika Kanani (IESL) - pallika
Andrew Kae (IESL) - akae
Jinyoung Kim (IR) - jykim
Giridhar Kumaran (IR) - giridhar
David Mimno (IESL) - mimno
Desislava Petkova (IR) - petkova
Karl Schultz (IESL) - kschultz
Jangwon Seo (IR) - jangwon
Rachel Shorey (IESL) - rshorey
Mark Smucker (IR) - smucker
Xiaobing Xue (IR) - xueb
Xuerui Wang (IESL) - xuerui
Michael Wick (IESL) - mwick
Xing Yi (IR) - yixing

(for email addresses add @cs.umass.edu)
IESL = Information Extraction and Synthesis Laboratory
IR= Information Retrieval Laboratory
MIR= Multimedia Indexing and Retrieval Laboratory

Undergraduate Students

Blago Dachev

CIIR Alumni

Ted Allen, BS ’02 Christian Abbott, BS ’97 Peter Amstutz, MS ’04 Lisa Ballesteros, Ph.D. ’01 Greg Baribault, BS '98 Jean Beardsley, MS ‘96 Ron Bekkerman, Ph.D. ’08 Alvaro Bolivar, MS ‘04 Paul Booth, MS ‘95 Shawn Broussard, BS ’99 Carol Broverman, Ph.D. ’91 Eric Brown, Ph.D. ’96 Brendon Cahoon, Ph.D. ’02 Jamie Callan, Ph.D. ‘93 Bill Cava, BA '97 Mike Chia, MS’ 93 Jack Conrad, MS ’94 Ashley Cowles, BS ‘03 Jody Daniels, Ph.D. ’97 Madi Das, Ph.D. ’96 Fernando Diaz, Ph.D. '07 Alex Dingle, MS ’05 Aiqun (Alice) Du, MS ‘98 Adam Feldstein, BS ’95 Hideo Fujii, Ph.D. ’98 Sudheer Gaddam, MS ‘99 Eric Galis, BS ‘04 Alex Genaud, BS '02 Gooi Chung Geong, MS ‘04 Mukund Goenka, BS '98 Warren Greiff, Ph.D. ‘99 Rahul Gupta, MS ’01 David Haines, Ph.D. ‘96 Chengfeng Han, MS ‘96 Stephen Hart, BS ‘02 Kazu Hirata, BS '01 David Hirvonen, BS ’98 Sean Horgan, BS ’97 Scott Janousek, BS ’96 Daniel Jarvis, BS ‘03 Jiwoon Jeon, Ph.D. ’07 Yufeng Jing, MS ‘94 Sandhya Kasera, MS ’97 Fumie Katsu, BS ’93 Vikash Khandelwal, MS ’01 Matthew King, BS ’94 Matthew King, BS ’02 Micah Kornfield, MS ‘04 Robert Krovetz, Ph.D. ’95 Donald Labaj, BS ’01 Daniel LaFlamme, BS ’02 Lesley Lam, BS '00 Kris Lange, BS ’99 Steve LaValley, BS ’97 Victor Lavrenko, Ph.D. ‘04 Dawn Lawrie, Ph.D. ’03 Ha Le, BS '98 Marc Lefebvre, BS ’96 Wei Li, Ph.D. '07	Anton Leuski, Ph.D. ’01 David Lewis, Ph.D. ’92 Josh Lewis, MS '05 Xiaoyan Li, Ph.D. '06 Rui Liang, MS ‘99 Jacob Lindholm, BS ’99 Anna Litvinova, BS ’98 Xiaoyong Liu, Ph.D. ’08 Zhihong Lu, Ph.D. ’99 Chen Luo, MS ’00 (ECE) Matt Magain, MS Andrew Maguire, BS '02 Dirk Mahling, Ph.D. ’90 R. Manmatha, Ph.D. ’97 Darren Mas, BS ’99 Andrew McGuire, BS ’03 Natasha Mohanty, MS ‘05 Donald Metzler Ph.D. ‘07 Yun Mou, MS ‘99 Peter Mularski, BS ’00 Eric Mulvihill, BS ’01 Vanessa Murdock, Ph.D. '06 Ramesh Nallapati, Ph.D. '06 Ryan O’Boyle, BS ’02 Paul Ogilvie, BS ’00 Ron Papka, Ph.D. ’99 Benjamin Paille, BS ’98 Jeremy Pickens, Ph.D. ’04 Jay Ponte, Ph.D. ’98 Karen Priore, BS ’99 Pallavi Pyreddy, MS ‘97 Hema Raghavan, Ph.D. ’07 Toni Rath, Ph.D. ’05 Chandu Ravela, Ph.D. ‘02 Jamie Rothfeder MS '05 Justin Ryan, BS ‘00 Andrew Rynkiewicz, BS ‘96 Joshua Sarro, BS ‘02 Chirag Shah, MS ’06 Qing Shi, MS ’96 Avi Shmueli, BS ’95 Hongmin Shu, MS ‘99 Scott Smith, BS ’98 Nitin Srimal, MS ’99 Trevor Strohman, Ph.D. '08 Charles Sutton, , Ph.D. '08 Hengky Susanto, BS ’99 Charles Sutton, Ph.D. '07 Russell Swan, MS '97 Chris Tarnstrom, BS ’00 Roger Thompson, Ph.D. ’88 Howard Turtle, Ph.D. ’91 Brian Vaughan, BS ’02 Courtney Wade, MS '05 Josh Weader, BS ’97 Xing Wei, Ph.D. ’07 Jinxi Xu, Ph.D. ’97 Ren Yao, MS ‘00 Yun Zhou, Ph.D. ’08

CIIR Alumni: If there are any errors in your information, or if we inadvertently left you off this list, please let us know (info@ciir.cs.umass.edu).

CIIR Research Experience for Undergraduates (NSF REU site) Alumni

Agnes Ampadu (Summer 2000)
Karl Barkei (Summer 1999)
Michael Branstein (Summer 2001)
Chad Brewbaker (Summer 2000)
Ryan Coleman (Summer 2001)
Edward DeGuzman (Summer 2001)
Daniel Dickman (Summer 1999)
Shaun Kane (Summer 2001)
Matthew King (Summer 2001)
Daniel LaFlamme (Summer 2001)
Andrew Lehman (Summer 2001)
Wendy Gonzales (Summer 1999)
Ryan McCabe (Summer 2000)
Henry McEuen (Summer 2000)
Paul Ogilvie (Summer 1999)

Elizabeth Partridge (Summer 2001)
R. Veera Pollard (Summer 2001)
Alana Nicholson (Summer 1999)
Andres Santiago Perz-Bergquist (Summer 2000)
Michael Remillard (Summer 2000)
Brian Runyon (Summer 1999)
M. Chase Smith (Summer 2000)
Steven Salter (Summer 2000)
Taren Kate Stinbrickner-Kauffman (Summer 2000)
Brenden Tamilio (Summer 1999)
Steve Thomas (Summer 2001)
Jerod Weinman (Summer 2000)
Kesha Wilford (Summer 1999)