Lee Giles cocreated CiteSeer in 1997 with Steve Lawrence and Kurt Bollacker while they were at the NEC Research Institute (now NEC Labs) in Princeton, New Jersey, USA. Now at the Pennsylvania State University, Dr. Giles continues the tradition of the CiteSeer project.
The Team
Core Team
Technical Leader
Jian Wu is improving the CiteSeerx crawler and investigating our crawling policies and also maintains the CiteSeerx database, index and repository.
Assistant Professor at University of North Texas
Dr. Caragea contributed on data cleaning and integrity. She also extracted keyphrases from scientific documents.
Graduate student
Kunho Kim is responsible for the author disambiguation tasks and maintains the author search index.
Graduate student
Athar Sefid works with with Kunho Kim to maintain author disambiguation of CiteSeerX database.
Graduate student
Rabah Al-Zaidy extracts trends and semantics from barcharts appearing in scientific documents.
Noted Contributors
Former Co-director
Prasenjit Mitra guided the team which developed the table search feature for CiteSeerx and is a collaborator in the CiteSeerx project.
Researcher at Microsoft Inc.
Madian contributes to the CiteSeerx architecture and indexing.
Advisory Software Engineer at IBM
Pradeep guided many of the technical aspects of the CiteSeerx development process.
Applied Scientist at Microsoft Inc.
Kyle Williams was involved in the maintenance and development of CiteSeerx and manages the code repositories.
Eric Treece
Systems Administrator
Eric used to be the primary systems administrator for CiteSeerx's underlying hardware, network and operating system layers. He managed and maintain the CiteSeerx cloud infrastructure.
Software Engineer at Microsoft
Douglas Jordan used to be in charge of transferring CiteSeerx data.
Undergraduate at Vanderbilt University
David worked with Jason Killian and co-developed the parallel extraction system for CiteSeerX.
Software Engineer at Palantir Technologies
Jason Killian developed the parallel extraction framework for CiteSeerX.
Juan Pablo Fernández Ramírez
Software Engineer
Juan was responsible for the collections feature of MyCiteSeer and general CiteSeerx bug squashing. He participated in developing document conversion routines and contributed in part to the navigation menu design and page layout for CiteSeerx and MyCiteSeerx. He was responsible for OAI metadata interface, external links and legacy corrections.
Crawl Consultant
Shuyi scoured the web for millions of new document files and is largely responsible for bringing the CiteSeerx collection up to date with the latest literature on the net. He has also lead efforts, for integrating table search with CiteSeerx.
Consultant, Former Technical Director, Software/Deployment Architect, Principle Engineer
Isaac led all technical aspects of the CiteSeerx development process, designed the system framework, and wrote most of the code. Isaac maintained the legacy CiteSeer system since it moved to Penn State in 2003 and incorporated many hard-won lessons from that endeavor into the new codebase.
Dr. Ying Liu
Ying Liu researched and developed the table search system that underlies the table search features of CiteSeerx.
Min-Yen Kan contributed the excellent conditional random field model that underlies the CiteSeerx citation parser, ParsCit, and collaborated with Isaac Councill to build the ParsCit application.
"Bernie" Nan Zang
Usability Engineer
Bernie was responsible for creating some of the interfaces you see in CiteSeerx, including the current UI.
Stephen Carman
Systems Engineer
Stephen facilitated CiteSeerx data transfer and code improvement.
