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Susan Dumais

American computer scientist (born 1953)

Field	Value
name	Susan T. Dumais
image	Susan Dumais.jpg
image_size	200px
caption	Susan Dumais in 2009 in her office at Microsoft Research
birth_place	Maine, US
nationality	American
fields	Computer Science
workplaces	Microsoft Research
alma_mater	Indiana University
Bates College
doctoral_advisor	Richard Shiffrin
doctoral_students	Jeff Huang
known_for	Human Computer Interaction
Information Retrieval
website
awards	ACM-W Athena Lecturer Award (2014)

Bates College Information Retrieval SIGCHI Lifetime Achievement Award (2020) SIGIR Academy (2021)

Susan T. Dumais (born August 11, 1953) is an American computer scientist who is a leader in the field of information retrieval, and has been a significant contributor to Microsoft's search technologies. According to Mary Jane Irwin, who heads the Athena Lecture awards committee, “Her sustained contributions have shaped the thinking and direction of human-computer interaction and information retrieval." In 2025, she was elected to the American Philosophical Society.

Biography

Susan Dumais is a Technical Fellow at Microsoft and Managing Director of the Microsoft Research Northeast Labs, inclusive of MSR New England, MSR New York and MSR Montreal. Her research at Microsoft has focused on gaze-enhanced interaction, the temporal dynamics of information systems, user modeling and personalization, novel interfaces for interactive retrieval, and search evaluation. She is also an Affiliate Professor at the University of Washington Information School, where she was the Ph.D. advisor for computer science professor Jeff Huang.

Before joining Microsoft in 1997, Dumais was a researcher at Bellcore (now Telcordia Technologies), where she and her colleagues conducted research into what is now called the vocabulary problem in information retrieval.{{cite journal

Dumais and the other Bellcore researchers then began investigating ways to build search systems that avoided the vocabulary problem. The result was their invention of Latent Semantic Indexing. |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120717020428/http://lsi.research.telcordia.com/lsi/papers/JASIS90.pdf |archive-date = 2012-07-17

Awards

In 2006, Dumais was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery. In 2009, she received the Gerard Salton Award, an information retrieval lifetime achievement award. In 2011, she was inducted to the National Academy of Engineering for innovation and leadership in organizing, accessing, and interacting with information. In 2014, Dumais received the Athena Lecturer Award for "fundamental contributions to computer science." and the Tony Kent Strix award for "sustained contributions that are both innovative and practical" with "significant impact". In 2015, she was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2020 she received the SIGCHI Lifetime Research Award and inducted into the ACM SIGIR Academy in 2021.

References

(8 May 2009). "100 Top Women in Seattle Tech". Puget Sound Business Journal.
Burns, Jay. (28 October 2015). "Microsoft's Susan Dumais '75 Is a Big Reason Why, Computer-Wise, You Find What You Seek". Bates News.
"APS Elects New Members for 2025".
Knies, Rob. (April 2014). "Dumais Receives Athena Lecturer Award". Inside Microsoft Research.
"The winner of the 2014 Tony Kent Strix Award is Dr Susan Dumais".
Tice, Lindsay. (28 October 2015). "Lewiston native inducted into American Academy of Arts and Sciences". Lewinston-Auburn Sun-Journal.
"2020 SIGCHI Awards".
"Awards – SIGIR 2021".

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