The Team | CiteSeerX

The Team

Core Team

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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.
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Dr. Jian Wu

Assistant Professor at Old Dominion University

Jian Wu is improving the CiteSeerx crawler and investigating our crawling policies and also maintains the CiteSeerx database, index and repository.
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Dr. Cornelia Caragea

Associate Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago

Dr. Caragea contributed on data cleaning and integrity. She also extracted keyphrases from scientific documents.
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Shaurya Rohatgi

Graduate student

Shaurya maintains CiteseerX’s webpage and respository. He is also responsible for assisting Dr. Jian Wu with crawling and server management.
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Kavya Puranik

Graduate Student

Kavya is responsible for the full stack and deployment of citeseerx
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Wujun Li

Undergraduate Student

Wujun updates CiteSeerX's static webpage. He is also developing a server monitoring system for CiteSeerX.
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Manoj Kumar

Graduate Student

Manoj is responsible for the Extraction, Clustering and Ingestion of academic documents for CiteseerX.

Noted Contributors

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Dr. Kunho Kim

Researcher at Microsoft Inc.

Kunho Kim is responsible for the author disambiguation tasks and maintains the author search index.
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Po-Yu Chuang

Software Engineer at Microsoft

Po-Yu Chuang manages the CiteSeerx index data over Apache Solr.
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Athar Sefid

Graduate student

Athar Sefid works with with Kunho Kim to maintain author disambiguation of CiteSeerX database.
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Rabah Al-Zaidy

Graduate student

Rabah Al-Zaidy extracts trends and semantics from barcharts appearing in scientific documents.
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Professor Prasenjit Mitra

Former Co-director

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

Researcher at Microsoft Inc.

Madian contributes to the CiteSeerx architecture and indexing.
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Dr. Pradeep B. Teregowda

Advisory Software Engineer at IBM

Pradeep guided many of the technical aspects of the CiteSeerx development process.
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Dr. Kyle Williams

Applied Scientist at Microsoft Inc.

Kyle Williams was involved in the maintenance and development of CiteSeerx and manages the code repositories.
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Eric Treece

Systems Administrator

Eric used to be the primary systems administrator for CiteSeerx's underlying hardware, network and operating system layers. He managed and maintain the CiteSeerx cloud infrastructure.
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Douglas Jordan

Software Engineer at Microsoft

Douglas Jordan used to be in charge of transferring CiteSeerx data.
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Huaiyu (David) Yang

Undergraduate at Vanderbilt University

David worked with Jason Killian and co-developed the parallel extraction system for CiteSeerX.
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Professor Jim Jansen

Jim investigates CiteSeerx useage.
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Dr. Susan Gauch

Dr. Susan Gauch is noted for her contribution on clustering CiteSeerx data.
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Jason Killian

Software Engineer at Palantir Technologies

Jason Killian developed the parallel extraction framework for CiteSeerX.
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Dr. Puck Treeratpituk

Puck led the author disambiguation project.
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Juan Pablo Fernández Ramírez

Software Engineer

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

Consultant, Former Technical Director, Software/Deployment Architect, Principle Engineer

Isaac led all technical aspects of the CiteSeerx development process, designed the system framework, and wrote most of the code. Isaac maintained the legacy CiteSeer system since it moved to Penn State in 2003 and incorporated many hard-won lessons from that endeavor into the new codebase.
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Dr. Ying Liu

Ying Liu researched and developed the table search system that underlies the table search features of CiteSeerx.
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Professor Min-Yen Kan

Min-Yen Kan contributed the excellent conditional random field model that underlies the CiteSeerx citation parser, ParsCit, and collaborated with Isaac Councill to build the ParsCit application.
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"Bernie" Nan Zang

Usability Engineer

Bernie was responsible for creating some of the interfaces you see in CiteSeerx, including the current UI.
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Stephen Carman

Systems Engineer

Stephen facilitated CiteSeerx data transfer and code improvement.
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Dr. Yang Song

Software Engineer

Yang Song designed the prototype of MyCiteSeer.
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Jason Chhay

Undergraduate student

Jason Chhay developed the CiteSeerX informative website and assists with systems support.
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Sean Parsons

Undergraduate student

Sean Parsons is responsible for indexing the CiteSeerX data in the new ElasticSearch system.
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Bharath Kandimalla

Graduate student

Bharath developed an ingestion pipeline to systematically import research papers into the Citeseer and index them. He is also responsible for maintaining the pdfmef and Citeseer ingestion system.
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Krutarth Patel

Graduate student at Kansas State University

Krutharth extracted keyphrases from the CORD-19 dataset for COVIDSeer.

Founders

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Dr. Steve Lawrence

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

Kurt was responsible for many innovative features in CiteSeer.