Marti Hearst

Professor

My office hours will be posted on my website home page each semester.

Focus

Human-computer interaction, information visualization, computational linguistics, search and information retrieval, improving MOOCs and online education

Biography

For more information on Prof. Hearst's, teaching, research, CV, etc., see  http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~hearst/ 

Current Research

Prof. Hearst's research is focused in the following areas:

  • Search Engines and their User Interfaces
  • Improving MOOCs
  • Tools for the Digital Humanities
  • Social Technology (Blogs, Tags, Discussions)
  • Computational Linguistics (Text Mining and Analysis)
  • Information Visualization
  • Usability in Web Sites

Education

B.A., Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley
M.S., Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley
Ph.D., Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley