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Two New Faculty Join GSLIS

April 28, 2009

GSLIS has hired two new faculty members. Associate Professor Cathy Blake and Assistant Professor Miles Efron will join GSLIS for the Fall 2009 semester.

Blake works on information retrieval in the context of health sciences, with a particular emphasis on accelerating scientific discovery by synthesizing evidence from text. She worked most recently as an assistant professor in the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill where she taught courses on information tools, databases, data mining, and text mining.

Blake received her Ph.D. in information and computer science from the University of California, Irvine in 2003. In addition, she holds a master's degree in information and computer science, also from Irvine, as well as a master's degree and bachelor's degree in computer science, both from the University of Wollongong in Australia.

Efron's teaching and research focus on information retrieval. He studies the statistical properties of human language in efforts to improve the effectiveness of search engines. He comes to GSLIS from the University of Texas at Austin, where he taught in the School of Information since 2004.

Efron received his Ph.D. in information and library science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2003. He received his master's degree in information science from the same institution in 2000.

Efron's wife, Jessica, will join the University Library as a cataloger.

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