W. Bruce Croft

W. Bruce Croft
Distinguished University Professor Emeritus,
College of Information and Computer Sciences,
and Former Director, Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval

College of Information and Computer Sciences
140 Governors Drive, Box 9264
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Amherst, MA 01003-9264

Office: 370 Computer Science Research Center
Phone: (413) 545-0463
Fax: (413) 545-1789
Email: croft@cs.umass.edu


Faculty member and former Dean in the College of Information and Computer Sciences.

Former Director of the Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval.

Research interests: Information retrieval.

Some Recent Publications:

Link to Google Scholar citation profile

Awards, etc.:
● IEEE Fellow, 2021
● ACM SIGIR Academy Inductee, 2021
● IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award, 2014
● UMass Amherst Award for Outstanding Accomplishments in Research and Creative Activity, 2014
● UKeiG Tony Kent Strix Award, 2013
● ACM SIGIR Salton Award, 2003
● ASIST Research Award, 2000
● ACM Fellow, 1996

Recent Ph.D. Graduates:

● Qingyao Ai
● Michael Bendersky
● Van Dang
● Samuel Huston
● Jiwoon Jeon
● Jinyoung Kim
● Youngho Kim
● Victor Lavrenko
● Dawn Lawrie
● Chia-Jung Lee
● Xiaoyan Li
● Xiaoyong Liu
● Donald Metzler
● Vanessa Murdock
● Jae Hyun Park
● Jangwon Seo
● Trevor Strohman
● Xing Wei
● Xiaobing Xue
● Liu Yang
● Hamed Zamani
● Yun Zhou

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