Marti Hearst

Head of School; Professor

hearst@berkeley.edu

(510) 642-8016

307B South Hall

My office hours will be posted on my website home page each semester.

people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~hearst

Focus

Human-computer interaction, information visualization, computational linguistics, search and information retrieval, improving MOOCs and online education

Research areas

Human-computer Interaction (HCI)
Information Retrieval & Search
Information Visualization

Biography

For more information on Prof. Hearst's, teaching, research, CV, etc., see??http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~hearst/?

Current Research

Prof. Hearst's research is focused in the following areas:
Search Engines and their User Interfaces
Improving MOOCs
Tools for the Digital Humanities
Social Technology (Blogs, Tags, Discussions)
Computational Linguistics (Text Mining and Analysis)
Information Visualization
Usability in Web Sites

Education

B.A., Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley
M.S., Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley
Ph.D., Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley