Marti A. Hearst

Professor in the School of Information at UC Berkeley, USA

Prof. Marti Hearst is a professor in the School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley. She received BA, MS, and PhD degrees in Computer Science from UC Berkeley and was a Member of the Research Staff at Xerox PARC from 1994 to 1997.

A primary focus of Prof. Hearst’s research is user interfaces for search. She just completed the first book on the topic of Search User Interfaces and she has invented or participated in several well-known search interface projects including the Flamenco project that investigated and the promoted the use of faceted metadata for collection navigation. Professor Hearst’s other research areas include computational linguistics, information visualization, and analysis of social media.

Prof. Hearst has received an NSF CAREER award, an IBM Faculty Award, a Google Research Award, an Okawa Foundation Fellowship, two Excellence in Teaching Awards, and has been principle investigator for more than $3M in research grants.

Title: Emerging Trends in Search User Interfaces

Search is an integral part of peoples’ online lives; people turn to search engines for help with a wide range of needs and desires. Web search is a familiar tool today, but it is surprisingly difficult to design a new search interface that is successful and widely accepted. In this talk, Prof. Hearst will discuss new ideas and trends that she thinks will impact search in future.