Lee Giles

Dr. C. Lee Giles is the David Reese Professor at the College of Information Sciences and Technology at the Pennsylvania State University. He is also Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Professor of Supply Chain and Information Systems, and Director of the Intelligent Systems Research Laboratory. He has been associated with Princeton University, the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University, the University of Pisa, the University of Trento and the University of Maryland, College Park. Previous positions were at NEC Research Institute (now NEC Labs), Princeton, NJ and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research in Washington, DC. His graduate degrees are from the University of Arizona and the University of Michigan and undergraduate degrees from Rhodes College and the University of Tennessee. He is best known for his work on the creation of novel scientific and academic search engines and digital libraries.

With Steve Lawrence and Kurt Bollacker, he was responsible for the creation of automatic citation indexing and CiteSeer, a public academic search engine and digital library for Computer and Information Science. Under his direction CiteSeer is being maintained at the Pennsylvania State University and is being transformed to the Next Generation CiteSeer, CiteSeerX.

He is the director of the Next Generation CiteSeer project, CiteSeerX, also at the Pennsylvania State University. In addition, he is responsible for the creation of the academic business search engine and digital library, BizSeer (previously known as SmealSearch). With Isaac Councill, he created automatic acknowledgement indexing, allowing the automatic search and indexing of acknowledged entities in scholarly and research documents.

His recent research in collaboration with Professors Prasenjit Mitra, Barbara Garrison, Karl Mueller and James Kubicki has resulted in the development of a search engine and data portal for chemistry, Chem_xSeer, ChemXSeer. A new search engine, BotSeer, searches and indexes robots.txt files on web sites. The Next Generation CiteSeer, CiteSeerX|CiteSeer^x, came on line in February, 2008, with over one million articles indexed. These new services are based on SeerSuite, a package of open sources tools for searching and indexing academic documents and data.

His research interests are in intelligent web tools, search engines and information retrieval, digital libraries, web services, knowledge and information management and extraction, and information and data mining. In these areas he has over 300 publications with some in Nature, Science and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. His research is well cited with an H-index of 47 and over 10,000 total citations as evidenced in CiteSeerX, ISI and the Google Scholar. He is a Fellow of the ACM, IEEE and INNS.