Nicholas J. Belkin
Distinguished Professor
Rutgers University
School of Communication and Information
- Contact Information:
- 184 College Avenue, Room 202
- 4 Huntington Street
- New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1071
- +1 848 932 7608
- belkin@comminfo.rutgers.edu
- Office Hours, 2017 :
- By appointment
- Courses Taught
- 220 Retrieving and Evaluating Electronic Information
- 510 Introduction to Human Information Behavior
- 513 Foundations of Informatics and Design
- 551 Information Retrieval
- 601 Communication and Information Processes
- 610 Seminar in Information Studies
- 612 Human Information Behavior
- 614 Information Retrieval Theory
- 617 Experiment and Evaluation in Information Systems
Here’s a link to a list of my publications: publications-08-2016
Here’s a link to a list of my presentations: presentations-08-2016
Research in Progress / Recent Research Projects:
Characterizing and Evaluating Whole Session Interactive Information Retrieval, with co-PI Chirag Shah. 09.2014 – 08.2017. Funded by NSF CISE/III. You can find a brief project description here: iir-abstract. The project web page is here: iir-project.
Automatic identification of information searcher intentions during an information seeking session, with co-PI Chirag Shah. 08.2013 -12.2014. Funded by a Google Faculty Research Award. You can find a brief project description here: google-abstract
Here’s a link to a list of all my externally funded research grants and contracts: grants-02-2015
Other Research Interests:
- Human interaction with information
- Human-computer interaction in information systems
- Interactive information retrieval
- Personalization of information retrieval
- Evaluation of whole session information retrieval
Education
- B.A. Russian Language and Literature University of Washington, Seattle
- M.L.S. Librarianship University of Washington, Seattle
- Ph.D. Information Studies University of London, U.K.
Significant Professional and/or University Affiliations:
Member of the Steering Committee for the ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR)
For a painfully detailed curriculum vitae click here: cv-08-2016
Personal Information
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Nicholas J. Belkin (belkin@comminfo.rutgers.edu)
Last revision 18 August 2016