Recent News
Press/News:
2009
Professor Giles was privileged to walk
and
hood 4 new PhD's (Levent Bolelli, Seyda Ertekin, Yang Song, Qingzhao
Tan) at Penn State's spring graduate commencement.
MobiSNA
project demos at Alcatel-Lucent's 4G
Symposium. Project discussed in the Daily
Collegian.
CiteSeerX introduces table search for over one million tables.
2008
Information Today news story on CiteSeerX and SeerSuite.
Research on automatic table and plot extraction is reported on by New Scientist.
Next Generation CiteSeer, CiteSeerX,
receives favorable reviews in various blogs.
2007
Robots.txt study and search engine, BotSeer, receive media
attention.
Table search engine, TableSeer, announced.
Recent Ph.D. graduates:
Ying Liu defends her
dissertation, August 21, 2009.
Seyda Ertekin defends her dissertation, March 26, 2009.
Ziming Zhuang
defends his dissertation, March 3, 2009.
Yang Song defends his
dissertation, October 17, 2008.
Qingzhao
Tan defends her dissertation, October 6, 2008.
Bingun
Sun defends his dissertation, September 24, 2008.
Xiaonan
Lu defends her
dissertation, August 27, 2008.
Yang
Sun defends his
dissertation, August 25, 2008.
Ding Zhou defends his
dissertation, December 10, 2007.
Levent
Bolelli defends his dissertation, July 6, 2007.
Issac Councill
defends his dissertation, August 30, 2006.
Previous Ph.D. graduates:
Sandip
Debnath defends his dissertation, 2005.
Hui
Han defends her
dissertation, 2004.
Seung-Taek Park
defends his dissertation, 2004.
Awards:
2008
Professor Giles selected to speak at Penn
State
President Graham Spanier's New Student convocation.
Professor Giles nominated for IST
Professor of the Year.
2007
"Extraction
and Search of Chemical Formulae in Text Documents on the Web," Proceedings of the 16th International
World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2007), 251-260, 2007, nominated for best student paper award.
Professor Lee Giles has been awarded for
2006 the
ACM Fellow.
Of the over 80,000 ACM members worldwide, about 600 are ACM
Fellows. Professor Giles is also an IEEE and INNS Fellow.
Select Presentations:
2009
SeerSuite: Foundations
for Scientific and Academic
Cyberinfrastructure, Metaweb Inc., February 5, San
Francisco, CA.
2008
The Future of the Web,
Raytheon, May 1, State
College, PA.
2007
Why
Vertical Search, Sparta, July 5, Columbia, MD.
2006
Keynote
Speaker, The Future of CiteSeer:
CiteSeerx. 17th European
Conference on Machine Learning and the 10th European Conference on
Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases, ECML/PKDD
2006, Sept. 24, 2006, Berlin, Germany.
Information Science Colloquium, Next Generation CiteSeer: CiteSeer, Jan. 26, 2006, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
2005
Artificial Intelligence Seminar, Next Generation CiteSeer, Dec. 13, 2005, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
URCS
Seminars 2005-2006, Next Generation CiteSeer, Nov. 14,
2005, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
Systems:
CiteSeerX
code available on SourceForge.
Next Generation CiteSeer, CiteSeerX,
comes online in February, 2008.
Robots.txt search engine, BotSeer,
available to search robots.txt worldwide.
Chemistry search engine and portal, ChemXSeer, comes
online.
Automatic
acknowledgement indexing available in CiteSeer as part of the CiteSeerx project.