Weimao Ke

Ph.D. Candidate
School of Information and Library Science
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
216 Lenoir Drive
CB#3360, 100 Manning Hall
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3360
Email: wke at email dot unc dot edu

A recent version of my Vita 2009/11, or wiki version (outdated)

• I expect to finish my Ph.D. program in May/August 2010 and am looking for a faculty or research position in a research university or industrial lab.
• I teach INLS 461-01: Information Tools in Fall 2009
• I am working on my milestones toward a Ph.D.: Journey to Ph.D.
• A SIGIR 2009 paper on Scatter/Gather clustering: SIGIR09 Scatter/Gather [ Presentation ]
• A SIGIR / LSDS-IR 2009 workshop paper on the Clustering Paradox for decentralized search: LSDS-IR09 Clustering Paradox [ Presentation ]
• Scatter/Gather Browser, Scatter/Gather Browser 2

An engineer interested in scientific discovery.
An IT practitioner who wants to be an IS (Information Science) researcher.
A doctoral student interested in Information Retrieval, Complex Networks, Machine Learning, Multi-Agent Modeling, Human-Computer Interaction, Information Visualization, and [information findability], etc.

Broadly speaking, I have an interest in the notion of INFORMATION – its universal meaning, relations to other essential elements (e.g., MASS and ENERGY) of our world, and implications in our daily meetings with it.

Narrowly speaking, I am interested in Information Retrieval, particularly retrieval and filtering in distributed networked environments. I am curious to understand how information can be found in networks where peers have individual collections of information, the impact of network characteristics on the findability and diffusion of information, and how we can build distributed retrieval systems (e.g., search engines) that scale in such environments.

A brief history about me, Details.

About my research interest, research projects, publications, and related links.
Related Conferences/Workshops: ACM SIGIR, ACM JCDL, ACM WSDM, ASIS&T Annual Meeting, ACM CIKM, ACM WWW
Related Journals: ACM TOIS, IP&M, JASIST, JIR
More about research

Courses I took and ideas/principles I learned, and More.

I will be teaching INLS 461-01: Information Tools in Fall 2009, at the School of Information and Library Science, More about Teaching.

Six years' work experience in the IT industry, Details.

I was born in rural south of China, in the province of Fujian, studied and lived in busy Shanghai for ten years, pursued my master's in information science in a tranquil town named Bloomington, and moved to the wooded Chapel Hill for a Ph.D. in Information Science… Life and What I Believe in.

Tutorial on LaTeX and BibTeX - Scientific Writing and Citation Management: Presentation, Example.
Thanks to a friend who scanned the very early work of Milgram (1967), here is a PDF copy of The Small-World Problem.