Welcome to My Webspace

I guess since you have taken the time to visit my homepage I should tell you a little bit about myself. I'll start off with the standard bio blurb that seems to inhabit most grad student homepages. I am currently pursuing a Ph.D. degree in the department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering at the University of Toronto. I am a member of the Interactive Media Lab (IML). My supervisor is Prof. Mark Chignell.

My research interests are centered around the intersection of information retrieval (IR), human factors (in particular human-computer interaction (HCI)), and artificial intelligence (AI). I feel that IR is an excellent application area for both HCI and AI. For my Masters in computer science, at the University of Guelph, I developed a system which used shallow AI techniques to automatically expand queries. I continue to (slowly) improve the performance of the query expansion system.

I am a member of the ACM and SIGIR.

Snail Mail:	Email:	Telephone #'s:
Rick Bodner Mechanical & Industrial Engineering 5 King's College Road University of Toronto Toronto, Ontario, M5S 3G8 Canada	rbodner [@] mie [dot] utoronto [dot] ca Note, some editing is required to make a valid email address. Sorry, but I am getting too much spam!	Voice: 1-416-946-5836 Fax: 1-416-978-3453

URL: http://www.imedia.mie.utoronto.ca/~rbodner/index.html
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