PEOPLE AND PLACES

The Language Technologies Institute has several information retrieval groups. The group of people who work with Jamie Callan is known as the Distributed IR group because that is one of its most visible research areas. However, the group has projects in several other areas, including information filtering, language modeling, question answering, and information systems tailored for children.

	Jamie Callan Professor GHC 5419 Jamie does a little bit of everything.	Dana Houston Administrative Assistant GHC 5407 Dana keeps the paperwork flowing.
Jaime Arguello Graduate Research Assistant GHC 5515 Jaime works on query classification for federated search.	Philgoo Han Graduate Research Assistant GHC 6412 Philgoo works on large-scale IR.	Mark Hoy Senior Research Programmer GHC 5721 Mark works on Lemur, a language modeling toolkit for IR.	Anagha Kulkarni Graduate Research Assistant GHC 5515 Anagha works on federated search.
Bhavana Dalvi Graduate Research Assistant GHC 5509 Bhavana is co-advised with William Cohen. She works on Querendity.	Paul Ogilvie Graduate Research Assistant mSpoke Paul works on language modeling and retrieval of structured documents.	Nancy Steadle Senior Research Programmer GHC 5721 Nancy helps U.S. regulatory agencies analyze email sent by the public.	Grace Hui Yang Graduate Research Assistant GHC 5515 Grace works on construction of personalized ontologies.
Reyyan Yeniterzi Graduate Research Assistant GHC 5503 Reyyan works on text mining in blogs.	Le Zhao Graduate Research Assistant NSH 4622 Le works on search engine support for HLT applications.

FORMER STUDENTS

Yi Zhang Ph.D. 2005. Assistant Professor Univ. of California, Santa Cruz	Luo Si Ph.D. 2006. Assistant Professor Purdue University	Jie Lu Ph.D. 2007. Research Staff Member, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center.	Kevyn Collins-Thompson Ph.D. 2008. Researcher, Microsoft Research
Yangbo Zhu M.S. 2008. Software Engineer, Google

OTHER COLLABORATIONS

Jamie collaborates with William Cohen on the Querendipity project and with Maxine Eskenazi on reader-specific practice for reading comprehension.