JAMES CAVERLEE

Assistant Professor

Email: caverlee@cs.tamu.edu
Phone: 979/845-0537 Fax: 979/847-8578
Office: HRBB 403
http://faculty.cs.tamu.edu/caverlee

Ph.D., Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2007
M.S., Computer Science, Stanford University, 2001
M.S., Engineering-Economic Systems & Operations Research, Stanford University, 2000
B.A., Economics magna cum laude, Duke University, 1996

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Web, databases, information retrieval

EXPERIENCE

Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, 2007-present

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

J. Caverlee and L. Liu, "Countering Web Spam with Credibility-Based Link Analysis," Proceedings of the 26th ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC), 2007.

J. Caverlee, S. Webb, and L. Liu, "Spam-Resilient Web Rankings via Influence Throttling," Proceedings of the 21st IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), 2007.

J. Caverlee, L. Liu, and J. Bae, "Distributed Query Sampling: A Quality-Conscious Approach," Proceedings of the 29th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development on Information Retrieval (SIGIR), 2006.

J. Caverlee and L. Liu, "QA-Pagelet: Data Preparation Techniques for Large Scale Data Analysis of the Deep Web," IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), Vol. 17, No. 9, September 2005, pp. 1247-1262.