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Lee C Giles

  • David Reese Professor of the College of IST and Professor of CSE
311A Information Sciences and Technology Building

University Park, pa 16802

Education:

  1. Ph.D., University of Arizona

Biography:

Research Interests
Information retrieval and search engines, Intelligent Information Processing and Systems, Basic and Applied Internet and Web Research and Data Mining, Intelligent Agents, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Digital Libraries, Computational e-Business

 
Biography
Lee Giles received his B.A. degree in general studies from Rhodes College, his B.S. in engineering physics from the University of Tennessee, his M.S. in physics from the University of Michigan, and his Ph.D. in optical sciences from the University of Arizona. Prior to joining Penn State, Professor Giles was associated with NEC Research Institute for more than ten years, starting in 1989 as one of its founding scientists. Before that, he was a program manager and research scientist with the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) from 1985 to 1989 and was involved in several DARPA programs. Prior to the AFOSR, Professor Giles was a research scientist with the Naval Research Laboratory. He is or has been associated with Princeton University, the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University, the University of Pisa, the University of Trento, and the University of Maryland.

Giles has published over 200 journal and conference papers, book chapters, edited books and proceedings. He has been involved in the development of various novel search engines. 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, now at Penn State, and Inquirus, a content-based metasearch tool. 

More recently he helped create the niche search engine SMEALSearch, a search engine for academic business documents.

Dr. Giles plays and active professional role in the scientific community. He is a fellow of ACM, IEEE, and INNS. He serves on many related conference program committees and has helped organize many related meetings and workshops. He has been an advisor and reviewer to USA and other government and university research programs. He has served or is currently serving on the editorial boards of IEEE Intelligent Systems, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Machine Learning, Computational Intelligence and Applications, IEEE Transaction on Neural Networks, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Neural Networks, Neural Computation, and Academic Press.
 
Selected Publications

  1. Sun, B., Q. Tan, P. Mitra, C. L. Giles. May 2007. Extraction and Search of Chemical Formulae in Text Documents on the Web. Proceedings of the Sixteenth International World Wide Web Conference (WWW'07). Banff, Alberta, Canada.
  2. Giles, C. L., I. G. Councill. 2004. Who Gets Acknowledged: Measuring Scientific Contributions Through Automatic Acknowledgement Indexing. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences101(51):17599-17604.
  3. Pennock, D., G. W. Flake, S. Lawrence, E. J. Glover, C. L. Giles. 2002. Winners Don't Take All: Characterizing the Competition for Links on the Web. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 99(8):5027-5211.

  4. Lawrence, S., C. L. Giles. 1999. Accessibility of Information on the Web. Nature 400:107-109.

  5. Giles, C. L., K. Bollacker, S. Lawrence. 1998. CiteSeer: An Automatic Citation Indexing System.DL'98 Digital Libraries, 3rd ACM Conference on Digital Libraries. pp. 89-98. (One of Eight Papers Selected for Best Paper Award)