Board Member
Contact Information
Email: charles.clarke@uwaterloo.ca
Phone: 519-888-4567 x35241
Location: DC 2506
Professor | Cheriton School of Computer Science
Associate Dean | Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Faculty of Mathematics
Charles Clarke is a Professor of Computer Science and the Associate Dean for Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Waterloo. His research focuses on data intensive tasks and efficiency, including search, ranking, question answering, and other problems involving human language data. He has supervised to completion over 30 graduate students and published over 200 refereed contributions on a wide range of topics, including search, metrics, user interfaces, filesystem search, natural language processing, machine learning, and databases.
He has worked on search engine technology for both Microsoft Bing and Facebook Search. Clarke is an ACM Distinguished Scientist and leading member of the search and information retrieval community, serving as the Chair of the Executive Committee for the ACM Special Interest Group from 2013 to 2016 and as the Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Information Retrieval Journal from 2010 to 2018.
Selected Publications:
- Charles L. A. Clarke, Alexandra Vtyurina, and Mark D. Smucker. Assessing top-k preferences. ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 39(3), July 2021.
- Mark D. Smucker and Charles L. A. Clarke. Time-Based Calibration of Effectiveness Measures. In 35th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, pages 95-104, Portland, August 2012. SIGIR best paper award.
- Stefan Buettcher, Charles L. A. Clarke, and Gordon V. Cormack. Information Retrieval: Implementing and Evaluating Search Engines, MIT Press, 606 pages, 2010. Honorable Mention, 2010 American Publishers Award.