Assistant Professor
Department of Management Sciences
School of Computer Science (cross appointment)

Address:
Mark D. Smucker
Department of Management Sciences
University of Waterloo
200 University Avenue West
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1

Email:
Personal Email:
Phone: +1 (519) 888-4567 ext. 38620 (Email is better.)
Fax: +1 (519) 746-7252 (Scanned pdfs via email are better.)
Office: CPH 3624

News
I am co-organizing the SIGIR 2013 Workshop on Modeling User Behavior for Information Retrieval Evaluation (MUBE 2013).

Research Interests
I am interested in the design and analysis of interactive information retrieval systems. My focus is on the study and creation of interaction mechanisms that improve text search.

University of Waterloo Students
If you are a student and would like to meet with me outside of office hours, please follow these instructions for making an appointment.

I am always interested in working with excellent students who are interested in my research program. Undergraduates and graduate students already at Waterloo should email me to set up an appointment so that we can talk about common interests and how we might start working together.

Prospective Graduate Students
If you are a prospective student interested in my research program, please be sure to list me in your application and to mention me in your statement of purpose as someone you would be interested in having as an advisor. Feel free to send me an email letting me know of your application. It is very helpful in your statement of purpose and email to explain why you are interested in my research program.

Please note that I will not respond to emails asking to be admitted or asking if I am taking on students. At this time, I do not know about my ability to admit any students for fall 2012. In general, unsolicited emails regarding admission to the graduate program will not receive replies from me.

Last Updated: September 2011