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Authors’ Biographies
Jiqun Liu is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Library and
Information Science at School of Communication and Informa-
tion, Rutgers University. His main research interests lie in under-
standing how people’s problematic situations, information seeking
intentions, and search strategies are connected in search interac-
tions and what this means for the design and evaluation of us-
er-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 Sci-
ence 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/.
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