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Marti Hearst
Professor
Biography
Dr. Marti Hearst is a Professor in the UC Berkeley School of Information and the Computer Science Division. She was Interim Dean and Head of School for the I School from 2022 to 2024. Her research encompasses user interfaces with a focus on search, information visualization with a focus on text, computational linguistics, and educational technology. She is the author of Search User Interfaces, the first academic book on that topic. She co-founded the ACM Learning@Scale conference, is a former President of the Association for Computational Linguistics, a member of the CHI Academy and the SIGIR Academy, an ACM Fellow, an ACL Fellow, and has received four Excellence in Teaching Awards from the students of UC Berkeley. She received her PhD, MS, and BA degrees in Computer Science from UC Berkeley and was a member of the research staff at Xerox PARC.
Education
1994, Ph.D., Computer Science, UC Berkeley
1989, M.S., Computer Science, UC Berkeley
1985, B.A., Computer Science, UC Berkeley
Research Areas
Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), search, human-computer interaction, computational linguistics, information visualization, MOOCs/learning at scale
Artificial Intelligence (AI), natural language processing, computational linguistics, MOOCs/ learning at scale, information retrieval (search)