Susan Dumais is a Senior Researcher in the Adaptive Systems and Interaction Group at Microsoft Research where she works on algorithms and interfaces for improved information access and management. Prior to joining Microsoft Research in 1997 she was at Bellcore and Bell Labs for many years. She has published widely in the areas of human-computer interaction and information retrieval. Previous research included well-known work on Latent Semantic Indexing (a statistical method for concept-based retrieval), combining search and navigation, individual differences, and organizational impacts of new technology. Her current research focuses on personal information retrieval, user modeling, text categorization, and collaborative information retrieval.
Susan is a past chairman of ACM's Special Interest Group in Information Retrieval (SIMIR) and serves on the NRC Committee on Computing and Communications Research to Enable a Better Use of Information Technology in Digital Government, and the NRC Board on Assessment of NIST Programs. She is on the editorial boards of: ACM Transactions on Information Systems, ACM Transactions on Human Computer Interaction, Human Computer Interaction, Information Processing and Management, Information Retrieval, Hypertext, Encyclopedia of Information Retrieval, and Annual Review of Information Science and Technology. She is also on program committees for several conferences.
Ms Dumais is an adjunct professor at the University of Washington in the Information School, and has been a visiting faculty member at Stevens Institute of Technology, New York University, and the University of Chicago. Additional information is available at: http://research.microsoft.com/~sdumais