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Eytan Adar Assistant Professor
BS and M.Eng., MIT; Ph.D., University of Washington
(734) 647-8028
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E-mail: eadar@umich.edu
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Eytan Adar is an assistant professor at the School of Information. His research interests are Internet-scale systems, social network
analysis, text mining, and visualization.
Adar is viewed as an international leader in Internet-scale systems. He works on temporal informatics: the study of the change of information — and our consumption of it -- over time. As one example, he is the principal designer of Zoetrope, a way of interacting with the Web that takes into account the fact that Web pages change frequently and it is nearly impossible to find data or follow a link after the underlying page evolves.
For example, the New York Times Web page shows different news content that is updated nearly constantly. In current search engines, all that one can do is access a snapshot of the current state of a Web page. That fact limits the kinds of questions the user can ask on the Web. Zoetrope enables interaction with the historical Web that would otherwise be lost to time by allowing users to interact with content streams. That is, users can look back though previous versions of Web pages and generate visualizations and extractions of the temporal data. A video of this work is available.
Adar has also done important work on a range of other topics, including social network analysis, where, for instance, he developed a mechanism for finding corporate expertise by analyzing the structure of E-mail exchanges.
At the University of Washington, Adar has had both an NSF Fellowship and an ARCS Fellowship. He has been employed at the Information Dynamics Lab at Hewlett Packard and as an intern and consultant at Microsoft Research. Although he just completed his Ph.D., he has already been author or co-author on more than 30 peer-reviewed publications, including two that won best paper awards.
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