Ryen W. White

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Ryen W. White
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Born
Ryen William White

1979 (age 45–46)
Education University of Glasgow
Known for
Awards
Scientific career
Fields Computer science
Information Retrieval
Human-Computer Interaction
Healthcare
Institutions
Thesis Implicit Feedback for Interactive Information Retrieval  (2004)
Doctoral advisor
Website ryenwhite.com

Ryen W. White (born 1979) is a Scottish-American computer scientist [1] [2] and executive at Microsoft Research (MSR) in Redmond, WA, USA. [3] He is known for his contributions to information retrieval, human-computer interaction, and computational health. [4]

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Early life and education

Born in Scotland, White received his Ph.D. in computer science, specializing in information retrieval and human-computer interaction, from the University of Glasgow. [5] His doctoral dissertation received the British Computer Society Distinguished Dissertation Award in 2005. [6]

Research interests

White's research has focused on search, digital assistance, and healthcare. He helped establish Exploratatory Search [7] [8] as a research area within Information Retrieval and did early work on Cyberchondria, [9] [10] Digital Disease Detection, [11] [12] and Pharmacovigilance. [13] [14]

Awards and honors

White is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery [15] and the British Computer Society. [16] Among other accolades, he has received three Best Paper awards [17] and two Test of Time awards [18] at the ACM SIGIR conference. White has also received the Karen Spärck Jones Award (2014) [19] and the Tony Kent Strix Award (2022) [20] for contributions to Information Retrieval research. He is a member of the SIGIR Academy [21] and SIGCHI Academy. [22] White's book entitled "Interactions with Search Systems" [23] received the ASIS&T Best Information Science Book Award in 2017. [24]

Professional roles

White has served as program chair for The ACM Web Conference in 2019 [25] and the ACM SIGIR Conference in 2017. [26] He is the editor-in-chief of ACM Transactions on the Web [27] and Vice Chair of SIGIR. [28] White co-founded and chaired the inaugural steering committee for the ACM Conference on Computer Human Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR). [29] He founded the SIGIR Academy [30] to recognize those making significant, cumulative contributions to the field of Information Retrieval. White is also an affiliate professor at the University of Washington Information School [31] and the University of Washington Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering. [32]

References

  1. ↑ Ryen W. White publications indexed by Google Scholar
  2. ↑ Ryen W. White at DBLP Bibliography Server
  3. ↑ "Ryen W. White at Microsoft Research". Microsoft . Retrieved 8 April 2025.
  4. ↑ "ACM Fellow Citation" . Retrieved 12 April 2025.
  5. ↑ "Ryen White Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). Retrieved 20 April 2025.
  6. ↑ "Previous Winners of the British Computer Society's Distinguished Dissertation Award" . Retrieved 8 April 2025.
  7. ↑ "Exploratory search interfaces: categorization, clustering and beyond: report on the XSI 2005 workshop at the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory, University of Maryland". doi:10.1145/1113343.1113356 . Retrieved 20 April 2025.
  8. ↑ "Introduction - Special Issue of Communications of the ACM". doi:10.1145/1121949.1121978 . Retrieved 20 April 2025.
  9. ↑ "Microsoft Examines Causes of 'Cyberchondria'". The New York Times . 25 November 2008. Retrieved 20 April 2025.
  10. ↑ White, Ryen W.; Horvitz, Eric (2009). "Cyberchondria: Studies of the escalation of medical concerns in Web search". ACM Transactions on Information Systems. 27 (4): 1–37. doi:10.1145/1629096.1629101. S2CID   10984735.
  11. ↑ "Microsoft Finds Cancer Clues in Search Queries". The New York Times . 8 June 2016. Retrieved 20 April 2025.
  12. ↑ Paparrizos, John; White, Ryen W.; Horvitz, Eric (2016). "Screening for pancreatic adenocarcinoma using signals from web search logs: Feasibility study and results". Journal of Oncology Practice. 12 (8): 737–744. doi:10.1200/JOP.2015.010504. PMID   27271506.
  13. ↑ White, Ryen W.; Harpaz, Rave; Shah, Nigam H.; DuMouchel, William; Horvitz, Eric (2014). "Toward enhanced pharmacovigilance using patient-generated data on the internet". Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics. 96 (2): 239–246. doi:10.1038/clpt.2014.77. PMC   4111778 . PMID   24713590.
  14. ↑ White, Ryen W.; Wang, Sheng; Pant, Apurv; Harpaz, Rave; Shukla, Pushpraj; Sun, Walter; DuMouchel, William; Horvitz, Eric (2016). "Early identification of adverse drug reactions from search log data". Journal of Biomedical Informatics. 59: 42–48. doi:10.1016/j.jbi.2015.11.005. PMID   26610385.
  15. ↑ "ACM Fellow citation" . Retrieved 12 April 2025.
  16. ↑ "British Computer Society Member Register" . Retrieved 20 April 2025.
  17. ↑ "SIGIR Best Paper Awards" . Retrieved 12 April 2025.
  18. ↑ "SIGIR Test of Time Awards" . Retrieved 12 April 2025.
  19. ↑ "Karen Spärck Jones Award: Past winners - British Computer Society" . Retrieved 20 April 2025.
  20. ↑ "Tony Strix Award Winners" . Retrieved 20 April 2025.
  21. ↑ "SIGIR Academy" . Retrieved 12 April 2025.
  22. ↑ "Announcing the 2024 ACM SIGCHI Awards!". 29 February 2024. Retrieved 21 April 2025.
  23. ↑ White, Ryen W. (2016). Interactions with Search Systems - Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9781139525305. ISBN   978-1-107-03422-8 . Retrieved 20 April 2025.
  24. ↑ "2017 Best Information Science Book Award". 9 October 2017. Retrieved 8 April 2025.
  25. ↑ "The Web Conference 2019 Organizers" . Retrieved 12 April 2025.
  26. ↑ "ACM SIGIR Conference 2017 Organizers" . Retrieved 12 April 2025.
  27. ↑ "ACM Transactions on the Web Editorial Board" . Retrieved 20 April 2025.
  28. ↑ "Officers and Volunteers - SIGIR" . Retrieved 8 April 2025.
  29. ↑ "ACM CHIIR Steering Committee" . Retrieved 20 April 2025.
  30. ↑ "SIGIR Academy" . Retrieved 8 April 2025.
  31. ↑ "iSchool Directory, Information School - University of Washington" . Retrieved 20 April 2025.
  32. ↑ "Affiliate Faculty - Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering" . Retrieved 20 April 2025.
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