Dr. Marti Hearst a Professor in the UC Berkeley School of Information and the Computer Science Division. She was Interim Dean and Head of School for the I School from 2022-2024. Her research encompasses user interfaces with a focus on search, information visualization with a focus on text, computational linguistics, and educational technology. She is the author of Search User Interfaces, the first academic book on that topic. She co-founded the ACM Learning@Scale conference, is a former President of the Association for Computational Linguistics, a member of the CHI Academy and the SIGIR Academy, an ACM Fellow, an ACL Fellow, and has received four Excellence in Teaching Awards from the students of UC Berkeley. She received her PhD, MS, and BA degrees in Computer Science from UC Berkeley and was a member of the research staff at Xerox PARC.
Dr. Marti Hearst a Professor in the School of Information and the EECS Department at UC Berkeley. She was Interim Dean / Head of School for the I School from 2022-2024. Her primary research interests are user interfaces for search engines, information visualization, natural language processing, and improving MOOCs. She wrote the first book on Search User Interfaces.
Prof. Hearst was named a Fellow of the ACM in 2013, a member of the CHI Academy in 2017, a member of the ACM SIGIR Academy in 2021, an ACL Fellow in 2022, and has received an NSF CAREER award, an IBM Faculty Award, two Google Research Awards, an Okawa Foundation Fellowship, and four Excellence in Teaching Awards.
Prof. Hearst has served as President of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). She has served on the Advisory Council of NSF's CISE Directorate, on the Web Board for CACM, as a member of the Usage Panel for the American Heritage Dictionary, and on the Edge.org panel of experts. She is on the editorial board of ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI) and was formerly on the boards of ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB), Computational Linguistics, ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS), and IEEE Intelligent Systems.
Prof. Hearst received BA, MS, and PhD degrees in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley, and she was a Member of the Research Staff at Xerox PARC from 1994 to 1997.
Prof. Hearst's full Curriculum Vitae: pdf
Prof. Marti Hearst
School of Information
102 South Hall
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-4600
hearst@berkeley.edu
