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Jiqun Liu Author

Jiqun Liu is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Library and Information Science at School of Communication and Information, Rutgers University. His main research interests lie in understanding how peoples problematic situations, information seeking intentions, and search strategies are connected in search interactions and what this means for the design and evaluation of user-centered interactive search systems. Jiqun Liu received his M.S. in Information Science from the Department of Information Management, Peking University and a double B.S. in Library Science and Finance from the Business School, Nankai University.Chirag Shah is an Associate Professor in both the School of Communication and Information (SC&I) and the Department of Computer Science at Rutgers University. His research interests include studies of interactive information retrieval/seeking, trying to understand the task a person is doing, and providing proactive recommendations. Dr. Shah received his M.S. in Computer Science from University of Massachusetts (UMass) at Amherst, and Ph.D. in Information Science from University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill. He directs the InfoSeeking Lab at Rutgers University where he investigates issues related to information seeking, human-computer interaction (HCI), and social media, supported by grants from National Science Foundation (NSF), National Institute of Health (NIH), Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), Amazon, Google, and Yahoo. More information about Dr. Shah can be found at http://chiragshah.org/