Natalie Glance

Current

• Member of Technical Staff at Google

Past

• Co-founder at BlogPulse
• Senior Research Scientist at Nielsen BuzzMetrics
• Senior Research Scientist at Intelliseek

• Distinguished Research Scientist at Whizbang! Labs
• Project Leader at Xerox Research Centre Europe
• Researcher at Xerox PARC

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Education

• Stanford University
• Princeton University

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Natalie Glance’s Summary

Natalie S. Glance is a Member of the Technical Staff at Google. A physicist by training, her research interests have landed her somewhere in the intersection of collaborative information systems, information extraction and discovering global behavior from local actions. In the past few years, she has focused on automatic means for discovering trends in the weblog community and for analyzing social networks in social media. She is now working on Google Product Search reviews and the shopping experience. Previous to Google, Natalie has held research scientist appointments at BuzzMetrics (formerly, Intelliseek) from 2002-2007, WhizBang! Labs (2000-2002) and Xerox Research Centre Europe (1994-2000).

Natalie has published over 30 peer-reviewed papers in the areas of text mining, recommender systems, and mulit-agent systems. She holds 12 U.S. patents. She has been co-chair/organizer for ICWSM 2007-2009 and has organized several workshops including WWW Workshop on the Weblogging Ecosystem (2004-2006), HICSS'2000 Workshop on Knowledge Ecologies, and Spring Days 2000 Workshop on People Based Networking. She is on the program committee and/or a reviewer for a number of conferences, workshops and journals, most recently: JCMC, IEEE Internet Computing Magazine, Journal of Applied Systems Studies, IJDAR, EMNLP, IJCAI, CSCW.

Natalie Glance’s Experience

• Member of Technical Staff

  Google

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Computer Software industry)

  April 2007 — Present (1 year 7 months)

• Co-founder

  BlogPulse

  (Computer Software industry)

  January 2003 — March 2007 (4 years 3 months)

• Senior Research Scientist

  Nielsen BuzzMetrics

  (Computer Software industry)

  February 2006 — March 2007 (1 year 2 months)

  Intelliseek was acquired by BuzzMetrics in February 2006. The Pittsburgh team continues to innovate and implement machine learning and natural language techniques for the automatic analysis of market research data from WWW-based sources of information.

• Senior Research Scientist

  Intelliseek

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

  July 2002 — February 2006 (3 years 8 months)

  I was a member of Intelliseek's Applied Research Center (ARC), created out of WhizBang! Labs Pittsburgh research lab. ARC was responsible for inovation and system implementation supporting the core business of Intelliseek. Our research team applied and researched machine learning and natural language techniques for the automatic aggregation of market research data from WWW-based sources of information. My activities included: analysis and visualization of the social network inferred from user interactions in message boards; wrapper based extraction and harvesting of messages from message boards and weblogs; automatic trend discovery from weblogs (blogpulse.com).

• Distinguished Research Scientist

  Whizbang! Labs

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

  December 2000 — May 2002 (1 year 6 months)

  Led a team implementing a system to update and refresh corporate information using data extracted from the WWW, with periodic refreshes successfully delivered to our customer. Part of a team building a prototype site-level Web monitoring system that used page classification and entity-based differencing to find relevant changes. Other activities: built site-level, page-level and span-level text classifiers; built entity extractors in French and English.

• Project Leader

  Xerox Research Centre Europe

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; XRX; Computer Software industry)

  October 1994 — November 2000 (6 years 2 months)

  Project leader for the Knowledge Agents research program, investigating collaborative information technology in support of knowledge management, digital libraries and community networks. Activities included: workgroup recommender system; collaborative search; user profiling; information markets; people-based networking.

• Researcher

  Xerox PARC

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; XRX; Computer Software industry)

  July 1993 — October 1994 (1 year 4 months)

  Extended dissertation subject to study the social dynamics of structured and diverse groups: the decision to train employees in competitve industries; job mobility within organizations; diversity of decision-making within groups.

Natalie Glance’s Education

• Stanford University

  Ph.D., Physics, September 1989 — June 2003

• Princeton University

  B.A., Physics, September 1985 — June 1989