The Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

Each Year, Microsoft Research recognizes outstanding new faculty members who represent a selection of the best and the brightest in their fields.  Doug Downey, assistant professor of EECS, received this significant distinction. 

Downey studies methods for automatically extracting knowledge from the web.  His work aims to enable advanced web search engines, capable of answering comlex questions by symthesizing information across mlutiple web pages.  Building on techniques from natural language processing, machine learning, and artificial intelligence, Downey is currently  invesigating how to harness human interaction to improve knowledge extraction systems.