Susan Dumais
Technical Fellow & Managing Director, Microsoft Research New England, New York City and Montreal
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Awards | ACM
Susan Dumais elected into ACM SIGIR Academy
Susan Dumais was inducted into the first class of the ACM SIGIR Academy in recognition of her significant, cumulative contributions to the development of the field of information retrieval (IR). Susan is a leader in IR, and has shaped the…
Awards | SIGCHI
Susan Dumais receives 2020 SIGCHI Lifetime Research Award
Susan Dumais, Technical Fellow and Director of the Microsoft Research Labs in New England, New York City and Montréal, and adjunct professor at the University of Washington, received the SIGCHI Lifetime Research Award. This is the highest honor awarded in…
In the news | SIGCHI
Dumais receives SIGCHI Lifetime Research Award
A common theme that runs through her work is the importance of understanding and improving information systems from an interdisciplinary and user-centered perspective. She is a co-inventor of Latent Semantic Analysis, a well-known word embedding technique, which was designed to…
Awards | ACM SIGIR
Susan Dumais receives SIGIR 2018 Test of Time Award
Susan Dumais, a leading researcher at the intersection of information retrieval and human-computer interaction, and significant contributor to Microsoft’s search technologies, received the SIGIR 2018 Test of Time Award for the paper entitled Improving Web Search Ranking by Incorporating User Behavior…
Awards | Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM)
Susan Dumais receives inaugural CIKM Test of Time Award
Susan Dumais received the Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) 2017 inaugural Test of Time Award for being the first author of the paper Inductive Learning Algorithms and Representations for Text Categorization, along with John Platt, David Heckerman, and Mehran Sahami, first published in…
Jaime Teevan, Susan Dumais, and Eric Horvitz received the 2017 Test of Time Award from the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval for their 2005 paper, Personalizing Search via Automated Analysis of Interests and Activities. The research developed a…
Awards | ACM SIGIR
Susan Dumais and colleagues receive SIGIR Test of Time Award for 1988 paper
Susan Dumais and colleagues received the Test of Time Award from the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (SIGIR) for their 1988 paper, Information Retrieval Using a Singular Value Decomposition Model of Latent Semantic Structure. The paper describes a method for…
Susan Dumais, Edward Cutrell, JJ Cadiz, Gavin Jancke, Raman Sarin, and Daniel C. Robbins received the 2015 ACM SIGIR Test of Time Paper Award for research that had long-lasting influence, including impact on a subarea of information retrieval research, across…
Awards | American Academy of Arts & Sciences
Susan Dumais inducted into American Academy of Arts & Sciences
Susan Dumais was inducted into the American Academy of Arts & Sciences—one of the United States’ oldest and most prestigious honorary societies, which includes scholars and practitioners from many disciplines and professions who conduct interdisciplinary, long-term policy research on complex…