allan at cs.umass.edu

I am an associate professor in the Computer Science Department at UMass Amherst, and co-Director of the Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval (CIIR). My current work focuses on these areas:

• interactive information retrieval and organization, including browsing and other human-computer interactions;
• topic detection and tracking (TDT);
• automatic information organization;
• evaluation of information retrieval systems

In Fall 2008, I am teaching cs187, an undergraduate course on data structures in Java.

In Spring 2008, I led a seminar, 791u, Advanced Topics in Information Retrieval

In the Fall 2007 semester, I taught cs646, a graduate level course on Information Retrieval.