Clyde Lee Giles is an American computer scientist and the David Reese Professor at the College of Information Sciences and Technology at the Pennsylvania State University.
14 Facts About Lee Giles
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Lee Giles is Graduate Faculty Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Courtesy Professor of Supply Chain and Information Systems, and Director of the Intelligent Systems Research Laboratory.
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Lee Giles was Interim Associate Dean of Research in the College of IST.
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Lee Giles's PhD is in optical sciences with advisor Harrison H Barrett.
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Lee Giles is best known for his work on the creation of novel scientific and academic search engines and digital libraries and is considered by some one of the founders of academic document search.
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Lee Giles has created several vertical search engines in these areas.
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Lee Giles has over 500 publications with some in Nature, Science and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Lee Giles's research is well cited with an h-index of 113 according to Google Scholar and over 55,000 total citations as evidenced in Google Scholar.
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Lee Giles has one of the top 200 h-indexes in Computer Science and the top 10 in Information Retrieval.
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Lee Giles is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and International Neural Networks Society, INNS.
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Lee Giles has twice received the IBM Distinguished Faculty Award.
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Lee Giles's work is mentioned in the following articles: Fresnel equations, Mie scattering, and Brewster's angle.
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Lee Giles is the director of the Next Generation CiteSeer project, CiteSeerX, at the Pennsylvania State University.
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Lee Giles was the cocreator of the first search engine for robots.