Ryen W. White

Ryen W. White
Born
Ryen William White

1979 (age 45–46)
EducationUniversity of Glasgow
Known for
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsComputer science
Information Retrieval
Human-Computer Interaction
Healthcare
Institutions
ThesisImplicit Feedback for Interactive Information Retrieval (2004)
Doctoral advisor
Websiteryenwhite.com

Ryen W. White (born 1979) is a Scottish-American computer scientist[1][2] and executive at Microsoft Research (MSR) in Redmond, WA, USA.[3] He is known for his contributions to information retrieval, human-computer interaction, and computational health.[4]

Early life and education

Born in Scotland, White received his Ph.D. in computer science, specializing in information retrieval and human-computer interaction, from the University of Glasgow.[5] His doctoral dissertation received the British Computer Society Distinguished Dissertation Award in 2005.[6]

Research interests

White's research has focused on search, digital assistance, and healthcare. He helped establish Exploratatory Search[7][8] as a research area within Information Retrieval and did early work on Cyberchondria,[9][10] Digital Disease Detection,[11][12] and Pharmacovigilance.[13][14]

Awards and honors

White is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery[15] and the British Computer Society.[16] Among other accolades, he has received three Best Paper awards[17] and two Test of Time awards[18] at the ACM SIGIR conference. White has also received the Karen Spärck Jones Award (2014)[19] and the Tony Kent Strix Award (2022)[20] for contributions to Information Retrieval research. He is a member of the SIGIR Academy[21] and SIGCHI Academy.[22] White's book entitled "Interactions with Search Systems"[23] received the ASIS&T Best Information Science Book Award in 2017.[24]

Professional roles

White has served as program chair for The ACM Web Conference in 2019[25] and the ACM SIGIR Conference in 2017.[26] He is the editor-in-chief of ACM Transactions on the Web[27] and Vice Chair of SIGIR.[28] White co-founded and chaired the inaugural steering committee for the ACM Conference on Computer Human Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR).[29] He founded the SIGIR Academy[30] to recognize those making significant, cumulative contributions to the field of Information Retrieval. White is also an affiliate professor at the University of Washington Information School[31] and the University of Washington Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering.[32]

References

  1. ^ Ryen W. White publications indexed by Google Scholar
  2. ^ Ryen W. White at DBLP Bibliography Server
  3. ^ "Ryen W. White at Microsoft Research". Microsoft. Retrieved 8 April 2025.
  4. ^ "ACM Fellow Citation". Retrieved 12 April 2025.
  5. ^ "Ryen White Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). Retrieved 20 April 2025.
  6. ^ "Previous Winners of the British Computer Society's Distinguished Dissertation Award". Retrieved 8 April 2025.
  7. ^ "Exploratory search interfaces: categorization, clustering and beyond: report on the XSI 2005 workshop at the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory, University of Maryland". doi:10.1145/1113343.1113356. Retrieved 20 April 2025.
  8. ^ "Introduction - Special Issue of Communications of the ACM". doi:10.1145/1121949.1121978. Retrieved 20 April 2025.
  9. ^ "Microsoft Examines Causes of 'Cyberchondria'". The New York Times. 25 November 2008. Retrieved 20 April 2025.
  10. ^ White, Ryen W.; Horvitz, Eric (2009). "Cyberchondria: Studies of the escalation of medical concerns in Web search". ACM Transactions on Information Systems. 27 (4): 1–37. doi:10.1145/1629096.1629101. S2CID 10984735.
  11. ^ "Microsoft Finds Cancer Clues in Search Queries". The New York Times. 8 June 2016. Retrieved 20 April 2025.
  12. ^ Paparrizos, John; White, Ryen W.; Horvitz, Eric (2016). "Screening for pancreatic adenocarcinoma using signals from web search logs: Feasibility study and results". Journal of Oncology Practice. 12 (8): 737–744. doi:10.1200/JOP.2015.010504. PMID 27271506.
  13. ^ White, Ryen W.; Harpaz, Rave; Shah, Nigam H.; DuMouchel, William; Horvitz, Eric (2014). "Toward enhanced pharmacovigilance using patient-generated data on the internet". Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics. 96 (2): 239–246. doi:10.1038/clpt.2014.77. PMC 4111778. PMID 24713590.
  14. ^ White, Ryen W.; Wang, Sheng; Pant, Apurv; Harpaz, Rave; Shukla, Pushpraj; Sun, Walter; DuMouchel, William; Horvitz, Eric (2016). "Early identification of adverse drug reactions from search log data". Journal of Biomedical Informatics. 59: 42–48. doi:10.1016/j.jbi.2015.11.005. PMID 26610385.
  15. ^ "ACM Fellow citation". Retrieved 12 April 2025.
  16. ^ "British Computer Society Member Register". Retrieved 20 April 2025.
  17. ^ "SIGIR Best Paper Awards". Retrieved 12 April 2025.
  18. ^ "SIGIR Test of Time Awards". Retrieved 12 April 2025.
  19. ^ "Karen Spärck Jones Award: Past winners - British Computer Society". Retrieved 20 April 2025.
  20. ^ "Tony Strix Award Winners". Retrieved 20 April 2025.
  21. ^ "SIGIR Academy". Retrieved 12 April 2025.
  22. ^ "Announcing the 2024 ACM SIGCHI Awards!". 29 February 2024. Retrieved 21 April 2025.
  23. ^ White, Ryen W. (2016). Interactions with Search Systems - Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9781139525305. ISBN 978-1-107-03422-8. Retrieved 20 April 2025.
  24. ^ "2017 Best Information Science Book Award". 9 October 2017. Retrieved 8 April 2025.
  25. ^ "The Web Conference 2019 Organizers". Retrieved 12 April 2025.
  26. ^ "ACM SIGIR Conference 2017 Organizers". Retrieved 12 April 2025.
  27. ^ "ACM Transactions on the Web Editorial Board". Retrieved 20 April 2025.
  28. ^ "Officers and Volunteers - SIGIR". Retrieved 8 April 2025.
  29. ^ "ACM CHIIR Steering Committee". Retrieved 20 April 2025.
  30. ^ "SIGIR Academy". Retrieved 8 April 2025.
  31. ^ "iSchool Directory, Information School - University of Washington". Retrieved 20 April 2025.
  32. ^ "Affiliate Faculty - Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering". Retrieved 20 April 2025.
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