| 2026 | SIGIR | Evaluation Validity in Information Retrieval. | Paul Thomas, Nick Craswell, Mark Sanderson, Seth Spielman, Robert Sim, Ryen W. White |
| 2025 | SIGIR | From To-Do to Ta-Da: Transforming Task-Focused IR with Generative AI. | Chirag Shah, Ryen W. White |
| 2024 | KDD | TnT-LLM: Text Mining at Scale with Large Language Models. | Mengting Wan, Tara Safavi, Sujay Kumar Jauhar, Yujin Kim, Scott Counts, Jennifer Neville, Siddharth Suri, Chirag Shah, Ryen W. White, Longqi Yang, Reid Andersen, Georg Buscher, Dhruv Joshi, Nagu Rangan |
| 2023 | WWW | Algorithmic Vibe in Information Retrieval. | Ali Montazeralghaem, Nick Craswell, Ryen W. White, Ahmed Hassan Awadallah, Byungki Byun |
| 2023 | SIGIR | Tasks, Copilots, and the Future of Search. | Ryen W. White |
| 2022 | SIGIR | Where Do Queries Come From? | Marwah Alaofi, Luke Gallagher, Dana McKay, Lauren L. Saling, Mark Sanderson, Falk Scholer, Damiano Spina, Ryen W. White |
| 2021 | CHIIR | Bridging Task Expressions and Search Queries. | Chirag Shah, Ryen W. White |
| 2021 | CIKM | CoSEM: Contextual and Semantic Embedding for App Usage Prediction. | Yonchanok Khaokaew, Mohammad Saiedur Rahaman, Ryen W. White, Flora D. Salim |
| 2021 | WSDM | Population-Scale Study of Human Needs During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Analysis and Implications. | Jina Suh, Eric Horvitz, Ryen W. White, Tim Althoff |
| 2020 | CHIIR | Data-Driven Evaluation Metrics for Heterogeneous Search Engine Result Pages. | Leif Azzopardi, Ryen W. White, Paul Thomas, Nick Craswell |
| 2020 | CHIIR | Conversations with Documents: An Exploration of Document-Centered Assistance. | Maartje ter Hoeve, Robert Sim, Elnaz Nouri, Adam Fourney, Maarten de Rijke, Ryen W. White |
| 2020 | CHIIR | Step-wise Recommendation for Complex Task Support. | Elnaz Nouri, Robert Sim, Adam Fourney, Ryen W. White |
| 2020 | SIGIR | Proactive Suggestion Generation: Data and Methods for Stepwise Task Assistance. | Elnaz Nouri, Robert Sim, Adam Fourney, Ryen W. White |
| 2020 | SIGIR | Tutorial on Task-Based Search and Assistance. | Chirag Shah, Ryen W. White |
| 2020 | WSDM | Overview of the Health Search and Data Mining (HSDM 2020) Workshop. | Carsten Eickhoff, Yubin Kim, Ryen W. White |
| 2019 | ASSETS | VERSE: Bridging Screen Readers and Voice Assistants for Enhanced Eyes-Free Web Search. | Alexandra Vtyurina, Adam Fourney, Meredith Ringel Morris, Leah Findlater, Ryen W. White |
| 2019 | CHIIR | Learning About Work Tasks to Inform Intelligent Assistant Design. | Johanne R. Trippas, Damiano Spina, Falk Scholer, Ahmed Hassan Awadallah, Peter Bailey, Paul N. Bennett, Ryen W. White, Jonathan Liono, Yongli Ren, Flora D. Salim, Mark Sanderson |
| 2019 | WWW | Bridging Screen Readers and Voice Assistants for Enhanced Eyes-Free Web Search. | Alexandra Vtyurina, Adam Fourney, Meredith Ringel Morris, Leah Findlater, Ryen W. White |
| 2019 | SIGIR | Task Completion Detection: A Study in the Context of Intelligent Systems. | Ryen W. White, Ahmed Hassan Awadallah, Robert Sim |
| 2019 | UIST | Mercury: Empowering Programmers' Mobile Work Practices with Microproductivity. | Alex C. Williams, Harmanpreet Kaur, Shamsi T. Iqbal, Ryen W. White, Jaime Teevan, Adam Fourney |
| 2019 | WSDM | Task Intelligence Workshop @ WSDM 2019. | Ahmed Hassan Awadallah, Cathal Gurrin, Mark Sanderson, Ryen W. White |
| 2019 | WSDM | Domain Adaptation for Commitment Detection in Email. | Hosein Azarbonyad, Robert Sim, Ryen W. White |
| 2019 | WSDM | Task Duration Estimation. | Ryen W. White, Ahmed Hassan Awadallah |
| 2018 | SIGIR | Natural Language Interfaces with Fine-Grained User Interaction: A Case Study on Web APIs. | Yu Su, Ahmed Hassan Awadallah, Miaosen Wang, Ryen W. White |
| 2017 | WWW | Harnessing the Web for Population-Scale Physiological Sensing: A Case Study of Sleep and Performance. | Tim Althoff, Eric Horvitz, Ryen W. White, Jamie M. Zeitzer |
| 2017 | WWW | Web Search as a Linguistic Tool. | Adam Fourney, Meredith Ringel Morris, Ryen W. White |
| 2017 | SIGIR | Improving Search Engines via Large-Scale Physiological Sensing. | Ryen W. White, Ryan Ma |
| 2016 | KDD | Detecting Devastating Diseases in Search Logs. | John Paparrizos, Ryen W. White, Eric Horvitz |
| 2016 | WWW | Where Can I Buy a Boulder?: Searching for Offline Retail Locations. | Sandro Bauer, Filip Radlinski, Ryen W. White |
| 2016 | SIGIR | Search Result Prefetching Using Cursor Movement. | Fernando Diaz, Qi Guo, Ryen W. White |
| 2015 | CHI | Exploring Time-Dependent Concerns about Pregnancy and Childbirth from Search Logs. | Adam Fourney, Ryen W. White, Eric Horvitz |
| 2015 | CIKM | Building Effective Query Classifiers: A Case Study in Self-harm Intent Detection. | Ashiqur R. KhudaBukhsh, Paul N. Bennett, Ryen W. White |
| 2015 | CIKM | Struggling and Success in Web Search. | Daan Odijk, Ryen W. White, Ahmed Hassan Awadallah, Susan T. Dumais |
| 2015 | WWW | Diagnoses, Decisions, and Outcomes: Web Search as Decision Support for Cancer. | Michael J. Paul, Ryen W. White, Eric Horvitz |
| 2015 | WWW | Questions vs. Queries in Informational Search Tasks. | Ryen W. White, Matthew Richardson, Wen-tau Yih |
| 2015 | SIGIR | Personalizing Search on Shared Devices. | Ryen W. White, Ahmed Hassan Awadallah |
| 2015 | WSDM | Understanding and Predicting Graded Search Satisfaction. | Jiepu Jiang, Ahmed Hassan Awadallah, Xiaolin Shi, Ryen W. White |
| 2014 | CHI | Seeking and sharing health information online: comparing search engines and social media. | Munmun De Choudhury, Meredith Ringel Morris, Ryen W. White |
| 2014 | CIKM | Supporting Complex Search Tasks. | Ahmed Hassan Awadallah, Ryen W. White, Patrick Pantel, Susan T. Dumais, Yi-Min Wang |
| 2014 | CIKM | Cross-Device Search. | George D. Montaez, Ryen W. White, Xiao Huang |
| 2014 | WWW | From devices to people: attribution of search activity in multi-user settings. | Ryen W. White, Ahmed Hassan Awadallah, Adish Singla, Eric Horvitz |
| 2014 | SIGIR | Comparing client and server dwell time estimates for click-level satisfaction prediction. | Youngho Kim, Ahmed Hassan Awadallah, Ryen W. White, Imed Zitouni |
| 2014 | SIGIR | Time-critical search. | Nina Mishra, Ryen W. White, Samuel Ieong, Eric Horvitz |
| 2014 | SIGIR | Interactions between health searchers and search engines. | Georg P. Schoenherr, Ryen W. White |
| 2014 | SIGIR | Enhancing personalization via search activity attribution. | Adish Singla, Ryen W. White, Ahmed Hassan Awadallah, Eric Horvitz |
| 2014 | SIGIR | Modeling action-level satisfaction for search task satisfaction prediction. | Hongning Wang, Yang Song, Ming-Wei Chang, Xiaodong He, Ahmed Hassan Awadallah, Ryen W. White |
| 2014 | SIGIR | Cohort modeling for enhanced personalized search. | Jinyun Yan, Wei Chu, Ryen W. White |
| 2014 | WSDM | Struggling or exploring?: disambiguating long search sessions. | Ahmed Hassan Awadallah, Ryen W. White, Susan T. Dumais, Yi-Min Wang |
| 2014 | WSDM | Modeling dwell time to predict click-level satisfaction. | Youngho Kim, Ahmed Hassan Awadallah, Ryen W. White, Imed Zitouni |
| 2013 | CHI | Supporting orientation during search result examination. | Henry Feild, Ryen W. White, Xin Fu |
| 2013 | CHI | Clarifications and question specificity in synchronous social Q&A. | Makoto P. Kato, Ryen W. White, Jaime Teevan, Susan T. Dumais |
| 2013 | CIKM | Personalized models of search satisfaction. | Ahmed Hassan Awadallah, Ryen W. White |
| 2013 | WWW | Learning to extract cross-session search tasks. | Hongning Wang, Yang Song, Ming-Wei Chang, Xiaodong He, Ryen W. White, Wei Chu |
| 2013 | WWW | From cookies to cooks: insights on dietary patterns via analysis of web usage logs. | Robert West, Ryen W. White, Eric Horvitz |
| 2013 | WWW | Enhancing personalized search by mining and modeling task behavior. | Ryen W. White, Wei Chu, Ahmed Hassan Awadallah, Xiaodong He, Yang Song, Hongning Wang |
| 2013 | SIGIR | Toward self-correcting search engines: using underperforming queries to improve search. | Ahmed Hassan Awadallah, Ryen W. White, Yi-Min Wang |
| 2013 | SIGIR | Explicit feedback in local search tasks. | Dmitry Lagun, Avneesh Sud, Ryen W. White, Peter Bailey, Georg Buscher |
| 2013 | SIGIR | Fighting search engine amnesia: reranking repeated results. | Milad Shokouhi, Ryen W. White, Paul N. Bennett, Filip Radlinski |
| 2013 | SIGIR | Personalized ranking model adaptation for web search. | Hongning Wang, Xiaodong He, Ming-Wei Chang, Yang Song, Ryen W. White, Wei Chu |
| 2013 | SIGIR | Here and there: goals, activities, and predictions about location from geotagged queries. | Robert West, Ryen W. White, Eric Horvitz |
| 2013 | SIGIR | Workshop on health search and discovery: helping users and advancing medicine. | Ryen W. White, Elad Yom-Tov, Eric Horvitz, Eugene Agichtein, William R. Hersh |
| 2013 | SIGIR | Pursuing insights about healthcare utilization via geocoded search queries. | Shuang-Hong Yang, Ryen W. White, Eric Horvitz |
| 2013 | WSDM | Playing by the rules: mining query associations to predict search performance. | Youngho Kim, Ahmed Hassan Awadallah, Ryen W. White, Yi-Min Wang |
| 2013 | WSDM | Characterizing and supporting cross-device search tasks. | Yu Wang, Xiao Huang, Ryen W. White |
| 2012 | CHI | The search dashboard: how reflection and comparison impact search behavior. | Scott Bateman, Jaime Teevan, Ryen W. White |
| 2012 | CIKM | Task tours: helping users tackle complex search tasks. | Ahmed Hassan Awadallah, Ryen W. White |
| 2012 | WWW | Mining for insights in the search engine query stream. | Ovidiu Dan, Pavel A. Dmitriev, Ryen W. White |
| 2012 | SIGIR | Search, interrupted: understanding and predicting search task continuation. | Eugene Agichtein, Ryen W. White, Susan T. Dumais, Paul N. Bennett |
| 2012 | SIGIR | Modeling the impact of short- and long-term behavior on search personalization. | Paul N. Bennett, Ryen W. White, Wei Chu, Susan T. Dumais, Peter Bailey, Fedor Borisyuk, Xiaoyuan Cui |
| 2012 | SIGIR | Improving searcher models using mouse cursor activity. | Jeff Huang, Ryen W. White, Georg Buscher, Kuansan Wang |
| 2012 | SIGIR | Anticipatory search: using context to initiate search. | Daniel J. Liebling, Paul N. Bennett, Ryen W. White |
| 2012 | SIGIR | Text selections as implicit relevance feedback. | Ryen W. White, Georg Buscher |
| 2012 | SIGIR | Studies of the onset and persistence of medical concerns in search logs. | Ryen W. White, Eric Horvitz |
| 2012 | SIGIR | Effects of expertise differences in synchronous social Q&A. | Ryen W. White, Matthew Richardson |
| 2012 | WSDM | Large-scale analysis of individual and task differences in search result page examination strategies. | Georg Buscher, Ryen W. White, Susan T. Dumais, Jeff Huang |
| 2012 | WSDM | No search result left behind: branching behavior with browser tabs. | Jeff Huang, Thomas Lin, Ryen W. White |
| 2012 | WSDM | Probabilistic models for personalizing web search. | David A. Sontag, Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Paul N. Bennett, Ryen W. White, Susan T. Dumais, Bodo Billerbeck |
| 2011 | CHI | No clicks, no problem: using cursor movements to understand and improve search. | Jeff Huang, Ryen W. White, Susan T. Dumais |
| 2011 | CHI | Effects of community size and contact rate in synchronous social q&a. | Ryen W. White, Matthew Richardson, Yandong Liu |
| 2011 | CIKM | Personalizing web search results by reading level. | Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Paul N. Bennett, Ryen W. White, Sebastian de la Chica, David A. Sontag |
| 2011 | CIKM | Effects of search success on search engine re-use. | Victor Hu, Maria Stone, Jan O. Pedersen, Ryen W. White |
| 2011 | ECIR | Automatic People Tagging for Expertise Profiling in the Enterprise. | Pavel Serdyukov, Mike Taylor, Vishwa Vinay, Matthew Richardson, Ryen W. White |
| 2011 | WWW | Supporting synchronous social q&a throughout the question lifecycle. | Matthew Richardson, Ryen W. White |
| 2011 | WWW | Finding our way on the web: exploring the role of waypoints in search interaction. | Ryen W. White, Adish Singla |
| 2011 | SIGIR | Inferring and using location metadata to personalize web search. | Paul N. Bennett, Filip Radlinski, Ryen W. White, Emine Yilmaz |
| 2011 | SIGIR | Intentions and attention in exploratory health search. | Marc-Allen Cartright, Ryen W. White, Eric Horvitz |
| 2011 | SIGIR | Why searchers switch: understanding and predicting engine switching rationales. | Qi Guo, Ryen W. White, Yunqiao Zhang, Blake Anderson, Susan T. Dumais |
| 2011 | SIGIR | Modeling and analysis of cross-session search tasks. | Alexander Kotov, Paul N. Bennett, Ryen W. White, Susan T. Dumais, Jaime Teevan |
| 2011 | SIGIR | Recommending interesting activity-related local entities. | Jie Tang, Ryen W. White, Peter Bailey |
| 2010 | CHI | Experience in social affective applications: methodologies and case study. | Paul Andr, m. c. schraefel, Alan J. Dix, Ryen W. White |
| 2010 | CIKM | Predicting short-term interests using activity-based search context. | Ryen W. White, Paul N. Bennett, Susan T. Dumais |
| 2010 | WWW | Sampling high-quality clicks from noisy click data. | Adish Singla, Ryen W. White |
| 2010 | SIGIR | Evaluating whole-page relevance. | Peter Bailey, Nick Craswell, Ryen W. White, Liwei Chen, Ashwin Satyanarayana, Seyed M. M. Tahaghoghi |
| 2010 | SIGIR | Understanding web browsing behaviors through Weibull analysis of dwell time. | Chao Liu, Ryen W. White, Susan T. Dumais |
| 2010 | SIGIR | Exploring the use of labels to shortcut search trails. | Ryen W. White, Raman Chandrasekar |
| 2010 | SIGIR | Assessing the scenic route: measuring the value of search trails in web logs. | Ryen W. White, Jeff Huang |
| 2010 | SIGIR | Predicting escalations of medical queries based on web page structure and content. | Ryen W. White, Eric Horvitz |
| 2009 | AMIA | Experiences with Web Search on Medical Concerns and Self Diagnosis. | Ryen W. White, Eric Horvitz |
| 2009 | CHI | Investigating web search strategies and forum use to support diet and weight loss. | m. c. schraefel, Ryen W. White, Paul Andr, Desney S. Tan |
| 2009 | CIKM | Characterizing and predicting search engine switching behavior. | Ryen W. White, Susan T. Dumais |
| 2009 | ECIR | Enhancing Expert Finding Using Organizational Hierarchies. | Maryam Karimzadehgan, Ryen W. White, Matthew Richardson |
| 2009 | SIGIR | Usefulness of click-through data in expert search. | Craig Macdonald, Ryen W. White |
| 2009 | SIGIR | Predicting user interests from contextual information. | Ryen W. White, Peter Bailey, Liwei Chen |
| 2009 | WSDM | Characterizing the influence of domain expertise on web search behavior. | Ryen W. White, Susan T. Dumais, Jaime Teevan |
| 2008 | KDD | Stream prediction using a generative model based on frequent episodes in event sequences. | Srivatsan Laxman, Vikram Tankasali, Ryen W. White |
| 2008 | WWW | Mining the search trails of surfing crowds: identifying relevant websites from user activity. | Mikhail Bilenko, Ryen W. White |
| 2008 | WWW | Defection detection: predicting search engine switching. | Allison P. Heath, Ryen W. White |
| 2008 | SIGIR | Talking the talk vs. walking the walk: salience of information needs in querying vs. browsing. | Mikhail Bilenko, Ryen W. White, Matthew Richardson, G. Craig Murray |
| 2008 | SIGIR | How medical expertise influences web search interaction. | Ryen W. White, Susan T. Dumais, Jaime Teevan |
| 2008 | SIGIR | Enhancing web search by promoting multiple search engine use. | Ryen W. White, Matthew Richardson, Mikhail Bilenko, Allison P. Heath |
| 2007 | CHI | Exploratory search and HCI: designing and evaluating interfaces to support exploratory search interaction. | Ryen W. White, Steven Mark Drucker, Gary Marchionini, Marti A. Hearst, m. c. schraefel |
| 2007 | CIKM | Utilizing a geometry of context for enhanced implicit feedback. | Massimo Melucci, Ryen W. White |
| 2007 | WWW | Investigating behavioral variability in web search. | Ryen W. White, Steven Mark Drucker |
| 2007 | SIGIR | The influence of caption features on clickthrough patterns in web search. | Charles L. A. Clarke, Eugene Agichtein, Susan T. Dumais, Ryen W. White |
| 2007 | SIGIR | Query suggestion based on user landing pages. | Silviu Cucerzan, Ryen W. White |
| 2007 | SIGIR | Studying the use of popular destinations to enhance web search interaction. | Ryen W. White, Mikhail Bilenko, Silviu Cucerzan |
| 2007 | SIGIR | Comparing query logs and pseudo-relevance feedbackfor web-search query refinement. | Ryen W. White, Charles L. A. Clarke, Silviu Cucerzan |
| 2007 | SIGIR | Investigating the querying and browsing behavior of advanced search engine users. | Ryen W. White, Dan Morris |
| 2006 | CHI | PygmyBrowse: a small screen tree browser. | Zvi Band, Ryen W. White |
| 2006 | CIKM | A study on the effects of personalization and task information on implicit feedback performance. | Ryen W. White, Diane Kelly |
| 2006 | SIGIR | A study of real-time query expansion effectiveness. | Ryen W. White, Gary Marchionini |
| 2005 | SIGIR | An interface to search human movements based on geographic and chronological metadata. | Wilma Bainbridge, Ryen W. White, Douglas W. Oard |
| 2005 | SIGIR | A study of factors affecting the utility of implicit relevance feedback. | Ryen W. White, Ian Ruthven, Joemon M. Jose |
| 2004 | ECIR | A Simulated Study of Implicit Feedback Models. | Ryen W. White, Joemon M. Jose, C. J. van Rijsbergen, Ian Ruthven |
| 2004 | SIGIR | A study of topic similarity measures. | Ryen W. White, Joemon M. Jose |
| 2004 | SIGIR | An implicit system for predicting interests. | Ryen W. White, Joemon M. Jose |
| 2003 | Interact | Clustering the Information Space Using Top-Ranking Sentences: A Study of User Interaction. | Anastasios Tombros, Joemon M. Jose, Ian Ruthven, Ryen W. White |
| 2003 | Interact | A Granular Approach to Web Search Result Presentation. | Ryen W. White |
| 2003 | WWW | Using Top-Ranking Sentences for Web Search Result Presentation. | Ryen W. White, Joemon M. Jose, Ian Ruthven |