Daniel Tunkelang

Welcome to my personal home page, which I update sporadically.

                                   

If you've come this far, you're most likely looking for one of the following:

Or perhaps you're interested in one of my recent presentations--you can find my publicly shared talks on SlideShare.

You can also watch a tech talk I gave at Google on Reconsidering Relevance, as well as a video of my talk at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) on Set Retrieval 2.0.

A Brief History

After graduating from MIT with degrees in computer science and math and then completing a PhD at CMU, I joined the founding team of Endeca, where I served as Chief Scientist. I now work at Google in the New York office. Like my daughter, I'm a big karaoke fan.

Conferences and Workshops

I am a co-founder and member of the steeting committee for the annual workshops on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval (HCIR). Check out the online proceedings for the past workshops held in 2007, 2008, and 2009. I also organized the Industry Track at SIGIR 2009.

Some other conferences and workshops in which I've participated:

SIGMOD 2009: Design for Interaction

Information Seeking Support Systems Workshop (sponsored by National Science Foundation)

ECIR 2008 (Industry Day): Guided Summarization

CIKM 2008: Program Committee for Information Retrieval Track

WWW 2008: Program Committee for Industrial Practice and Experience Track

SIGIR 2007 (Industry Event): Information Access and the User Experience

SIGIR 2006 (Workshop on Faceted Search): Dynamic Category Sets

CIKM 2004: Processing Search Queries in a Distributed Environment (with Fritz Knabe)

SIAM Data Mining 2002 (Workshop on Clustering High Dimensional Data): Making the Nearest Neighbor Meaningful

Finally, I have participated in a number of industry conferences in the areas of enterprise search and text analytics.

Graph Layout

Before discovering the joys of search, I worked on graph layout (aka graph drawing), which can generously be called information visualization.

You can find my demonstration applet for JIGGLE (Java Interactive Graph Layout Environment) here, my dissertation here, and the source code here.

The source code is available for both non-commercial and commercial use; I only ask that you acknowledge the use of the software and let me know that you are using it. Besides, you might actually get me to help you with it that way!

You might also be interested my earlier paper describing a practical approach to drawing undirected graphs.

Contact Information

Email:dtunkelang at gmail dot com
LinkedIn:http://www.linkedin.com/in/dtunkelang
Twitter:http://twitter.com/dtunkelang

Ben Tunkelang, 1929-2008, R.I.P.

More information about the Tunkelang name here.