Marti Hearst

Marti Hearst
Senior Faculty Advisor

Email: hearst@berkeley.edu

Dr. Marti Hearst is a professor in the School of Information and the EECS Department at UC Berkeley. Her primary research interests are user interfaces for search engines, information visualization, natural language processing, and improving MOOCs. She wrcote the first book on Search User Interfaces.

Prof. Hearst was named an ACL Fellow in 2022, a Fellow of the ACM in 2013, a member of the CHI Academy in 2017, and has received an NSF CAREER award, an IBM Faculty Award, two Google Research Awards, an Okawa Foundation Fellowship, four Excellence in Teaching Awards, and has been principal investigator for more than $3.5M in research grants.

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.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marti-hearst-22a965/