The Team

Core Team

Professor C. Lee Giles
PI and Project Director

Lee Giles cocreated CiteSeer in 1997 with Steve Lawrence and Kurt Bollacker while they were at the NEC Research Institute (now NEC Labs) in Princeton, New Jersey, USA. Now at the Pennsylvania State University, Dr. Giles continues the tradition of the CiteSeer project.

Professor Prasenjit Mitra
Co-director

Prasenjit Mitra guided the team which developed the table search feature for CiteSeerx and is a collaborator in the CiteSeerx project.

Pradeep B. Teregowda
Technical Director Advisor
Pradeep guided many of the technical aspects of the CiteSeerx development process.

Dr. Jian Wu
Crawler
Jian Wu is improving the CiteSeerx crawler and investigating our crawling policies.

Founders

Dr. Steve Lawrence
Steve was the creator of the original CiteSeer architecture and system.

Dr. Kurt Bollacker
Kurt was responsible for many innovative features in CiteSeer.

Noted Contributors

Douglas Jordan
Data Transfer
Doug is in charge of transferring CiteSeerx data.

Professor Jim Jansen
Jim investigates CiteSeerX useage.

Stephen Carman
Systems Engineer
Stephen is responsible for establishing the methodology used to transfer CSX data via Rsync.

Puck Treeratpituk
Puck has led the author disambiguation project.

Juan Pablo Fernández Ramírez
Software Engineer

Juan is responsible for the collections feature of MyCiteSeer and general CiteSeerx bug squashing. He has participated in developing document conversion routines and contributed in part to the navigation menu design and page layout for CiteSeerx and MyCiteSeerx. He has been responsible for OAI metadata interface, external links and legacy corrections.

Shuyi Zheng
Crawl Consultant

Shuyi scoured the web for millions of new document files and is largely responsible for bringing the CiteSeerx collection up to date with the latest literature on the net. He has also lead efforts, for integrating table search with CiteSeerx.