David Reese Professor, College of Information Sciences and Technology, Pennsylvania State University
State College, Pennsylvania Area
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- David Reese Professor at College of Information Sciences and Technology, The Pennsylvania State University
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- Senior Research Scientist at NEC Research Institutue
- Program Manager at Air Force Office of Scientific Research
- Scientist at Naval Research Laboratory
- Education
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- University of Arizona
- University of Michigan
- University of Tennessee-Knoxville
- Rhodes College
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- Industry
- Information Technology and Services
- Websites
C. Lee Giles’s Summary
Dr. Giles was the cocreator of the popular academic search engines: CiteSeer and SMEALSearch, now BizSeer. Currently, the Next Generation CiteSeer, CiteSeerX, was just released and a new search engine and portal for chemistry, ChemXSeer, came online in the spring of 2007. A search engine for robots.txt, BotSeer, was introduced in the fall of 2007.
His current research and consulting interests are in intelligent information search, systems and services. In particular his interests are:
- Web services, intelligent search engines and portals, enterprise web tools.
- Web search, knowledge management and extraction, information and data mining, digital libraries and web databases.
- Automated cyberinfrastructure for the sciences and the academy and digital libraries.
- Business models for search and search engines.
- Computational issues in e-commerce, the e-world, markets and betting.
He has published nearly 300 journal and conference papers, book chapters, edited books and proceedings in these areas plus several patents. His research has been highlighted in the New York Times, Wired Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and Business 2.0.
Dr. Giles' research is or has been supported by DARPA, NSF, Microsoft, FAST, Ford, IBM, Lockheed-Martin, Lucent, NASA, Raytheon, NEC and Yahoo.
He has consulted for or been on advisory boards of NEC, FAST Search and Transfer, PJM, KXEN, US Department of Treasury, and the US Department of Defense. He is an ACM, IEEE and INNS Fellow. He has twice received the IBM Distinguished Faculty Award.
His previous positions include a Senior Research Scientist at NEC Research Institute, Princeton, NJ; Program Manager at the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Washington, D.C.; Research Scientist at the Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C.; and research engineer at Ford Motor Company's Scientific Research Laboratory.
C. Lee Giles’s Specialties:
Web and enterprise search, web crawling, data mining, information and knowledge management and extraction, search engine business models.
Artificial intelligence and machine learning for information and knowledge extraction.
Creation, design and implementation of cyberinfrastructure for science and the academy.
C. Lee Giles’s Experience
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David Reese Professor
College of Information Sciences and Technology, The Pennsylvania State University
(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)
August 2000 — Present (9 years)
Dr. C. Lee Giles is the David Reese Professor at the College of Information Sciences and Technology, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Professor of Supply Chain and Information Systems, Director of the Intelligent Systems Research Laboratory, and Associate Director of Research at the eBusiness Research Center at the Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA.
He has been involved in the creation and development of various novel search engines and digital libraries. He was one of the creators of the popular computer science search engine, CiteSeer, an autonomous citation indexing search engine for computer and information science documents. A version of CiteSeer, CiteSeer.IST, is now available at Penn State. More recently, he created the niche search engine eBizSearch a search engine for e-business documents, and a search engine and digital library for academic business documents, SMEALSearch. -
Senior Research Scientist
NEC Research Institutue
(Information Technology and Services industry)
1989 — 2000 (11 years)
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Program Manager
Air Force Office of Scientific Research
(Information Technology and Services industry)
1985 — 1989 (4 years)
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Scientist
Naval Research Laboratory
(Government Agency; Research industry)
1982 — 1985 (3 years)
C. Lee Giles’s Education
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University of Arizona
Ph.D. , Optical Sciences , 1975 — 1980
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University of Michigan
M.S. , Physics and Electrical Engineering , 1969 — 1974
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University of Tennessee-Knoxville
BS , Engineering Physics , 1967 — 1969
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Rhodes College
BA , General Studies , 1964 — 1967
Additional Information
C. Lee Giles’s Websites:
C. Lee Giles’s Groups:
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IEEE Computational Intelligence Society
C. Lee Giles’s Honors:
Fellow of the ACM
Fellow of IEEE
Fellow of INNS
C. Lee Giles’s Contact Settings
Interested In:
- consulting offers
- new ventures
- expertise requests
- business deals
