Hongyan Ma, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
ma.hongyan@gmail.com

1. Focus: Interactive Information Retrieval

• Design and Evaluation of Interactive Information Retrieval Systems 
  • Exploitation of Multiple Information Evidence
  • Context Sensitive Retrieval
    • Nature of Human-Computer Interaction
  • User-System Coordination
    
    
• User Modeling and Personalization
  
  
• Unified Probabilistic Retrieval Models

2. Focus: Digital Libraries

• Domain-specific Digital Libraries
  • Automatic Selection and Categorization of Digital Content
  • Domain-specific Metadata Standards and Metadata Design

• Management and access to Digital Libraries
  • Database and Data Structures
  • Digital Library Architecture
  • Open Access and Interoperability of Digital Content
  • Usability Design and Evaluation
    
    
• Social and Cultural Aspects of Digital Libraries