Shimei Pan, PhD

Assistant ProfessorInformation Systems Department of UMBC

Dr. Shimei Pan is an Assistant Professor at the Information Systems Department of UMBC.  Before joining UMBC, Dr. Pan was a research scientist at IBM Watson Research Center in New York. Her primary research interests are Text Mining, Large-Scale Social Media Analytics and Intelligent Interactive Systems. Dr. Pan has authored 80+ peer-reviewed papers in major Text Mining, Social Media Analytics, Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Human Computer Interaction conferences and journals. She has also served on various technical program committees for major international conferences (e.g., ACL, NAACL, EMNLP, IJCAI, CIKM, RecSys and IUI). She was the program co-chair of ACM IUI 2015. She is currently the general co-chair of ACM IUI 2019.  She is  an associate editor of ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TIIS). Dr. Pan is the recipient of the IBM faculty award and the IEEE ICTAI C.V. Ramamoorthy Best Paper Award. Dr. Pan received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Columbia University.

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