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	Gautam Pant Assistant Professor
	Management Sciences W356  John Pappajohn Bus Bldg The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242-1994	Ph: 319-335-0961 Fax: 319-335-0297 E-mail: gautam-pant@uiowa.edu Website

Academic History

• PhD in Business Administration, The University of Iowa, 2004
• MS in Computer Science, Baylor University, 1999
• BE in Computer Engineering, VJTI, University of Mumbai, 1996

Expertise

• Analytics
• Business Intelligence
• Online Visibility
• Web Mining

Awards

• David Eccles Emerging Scholar, David Eccles School of Business, University of Utah, 2009

Selected Publications

• Status Locality on the Web: Implications for Building Focused Collections, Gautam Pant, Padmini Srinivasan, Information Systems Research, 2012 - Publication Details Forthcoming
• Can Visible Cues in Search Results Indicate Vendors' Reliability?, Zhongming Ma, Olivia R. Liu Sheng, Gautam Pant, Alicia Iriberri, Decision Support Systems, vol 52, 2012, 768–775
• Mining Competitor Relationships from Online News: A Network-based Approach, Zhongming Ma, Gautam Pant, Olivia R. Liu Sheng, Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, vol 10, 2011, 418-427
• Examining the Organic and Sponsored Search Results: A Vendor Reliability Prespective, Zhongming Ma, Gautam Pant, Olivia R. Liu Sheng, Journal of Computer Information Systems, vol 50, 2010, 30-38
• Predicting Web Page Status, Gautam Pant, Padmini Srinivasan, Information Systems Research, vol 21, 2010, 345-364
• Discovering Company Revenue Relations from News: A Network Approach, Zhongming Ma, Olivia R. Liu Sheng, Gautam Pant, Decision Support Systems, vol 47, 2009, 408-414
• Interest-based Personalized Search, Zhongming Ma, Gautam Pant, Olivia R. Liu Sheng, ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS), vol 25, 2007
• Link Contexts in Classifier-Guided Topical Crawlers, Gautam Pant, Padmini Srinivasan, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), vol 18, 2006, 107-122
• Learning to Crawl: Comparing Classification Schemes, Gautam Pant, Padmini Srinivasan, ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS), vol 23, 2005
• A General Evaluation Framework for Topical Crawlers, Padmini Srinivasan, Filippo Menczer, Gautam Pant, Information Retrieval, vol 8, 2005, 417-447
• Topical web crawlers: Evaluating adaptive algorithms, Filippo Menczer, Gautam Pant, Padmini Srinivasan, ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT), vol 4, 2004
• Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Gautam Pant, Filippo Menczer, Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, vol 5, 2002, 221-229

Conference Proceedings

• Predicting Audience Demographics of Web Sites: Design vs. Content Cues, Iljoo Kim, Gautam Pant, Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS), 2010
• A Network-Based Approach to Mining Competitor Relationships from Online News, Zhongming Ma, Gautam Pant, Olivia R. Liu Sheng, International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), 2009
• Avoiding the Blind Spots: Competitor Identification Using Web Text and Linkage Structure, Gautam Pant, Olivia R. Liu Sheng, International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), 2009
• Utility-biased Web Crawler: Combining Topicality and Status, Gautam Pant, Padmini Srinivasan, Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS), 2008
• The Inorganic Side of Paid Search, Zhongming Ma, Gautam Pant, Olivia R. Liu Sheng, Workshop on e-Business, 2007
• Using Social Network Analysis to Automatically Discover Competitor Relationships from Business News, Zhongming Ma, Gautam Pant, Olivia R. Liu Sheng, Workshop on e-Business, 2006
• Building Web Collections for Vertical Markets, Gautam Pant, Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS), 2005
• Evaluation of Ontology-based User Interests Modeling, Zhongming Ma, Olivia R. Liu Sheng, Gautam Pant, Workshop on e-Business, 2005
• Panorama: Extending Digital Libraries with Topical Crawlers., Gautam Pant, Kostas Tsioutsiouliklis, Judy Johnson, C. Lee Giles, Joint ACM/IEEE Conference on Digital Libraries, 2004, 142-150
• Deriving Link-context from HTML Tag Tree, Gautam Pant, 8th ACM SIGMOD Workshop on Research Issues in Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (DMKD), 2003
• Search Engine-Crawler Symbiosis: Adapting to Community Interests, Gautam Pant, Shanon Bradshaw, Filippo Menczer, European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL), 2003, 221-232
• Topical Crawling for Business Intelligence, Gautam Pant, Filippo Menczer, European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL), 2003, 233-244
• Exploration versus Exploitation in Topic Driven Crawlers, Gautam Pant, WWW 2002 Workshop on Web Dynamics, 2002
• Web Crawling Agents for Retrieving Biomedical Information., Padmini Srinivasan, Joyce Mitchell, Olivier Bodenreider, Gautam Pant, Filippo Menczer, International Workshop on Agents in Bioinformatics (NETTAB), 2002
• Evaluating Topic-Driven Web Crawlers, Filippo Menczer, Gautam Pant, Padmini Srinivasan, Miguel E. Ruiz, 24th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval, 2001, 241-249
• Latency-dependent fitness in evolutionary multithreaded Web agents, Melania Degeratu, Gautam Pant, Filippo Menczer, GECCO 2001 EcoMAS Workshop, 2001
• Evaluation Criteria for Genetically-Tuned Problem Solving Experts, David Sturgill, Gautam Pant, Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), 1999

Other Work

• Crawling the Web, Gautam Pant, Padmini Srinivasan, Filippo Menczer, Web Dynamics, Springer-Verlag, 2003

Prior Positions

• Assistant Professor, David Eccles School of Business, University of Utah, 2004 - 2011

Review and Editorial Work

• Referee, ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS), 2011
• Referee, ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems (TMIS), 2011
• Referee, Decision Support Systems, 2011
• Referee, Information Systems Research, 2011
• Referee, INFORMS Journal on Computing, 2011
• Referee, Journal of Management Information Systems (JMIS), 2011
• Referee, Management Information Systems Quarterly (MISQ), 2011
• Referee, IEEE Intelligent Systems, 2010
• Referee, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, 2010
• Referee, Management Science, 2010
• Referee, ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT), 2007
• Referee, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), 2007

Professional Affiliations

• Associate Editor, Information Systems Research, January 2011 - current
• Review Panels, ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (Program Committee), 2012
• Associate Editor, International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) 2012 track on "Knowledge Management and Business Intelligence", 2012
• Review Panels, Conference on Information Systems and Technology (Program Committee), 2011
• Review Panels, Workshop on Information Technology and Systems (Program Committee), 2011
• Review Panels, Conference on Information Systems and Technology (Program Committee), 2010
• Review Panels, Workshop on Information Technology and Systems (Program Committee), 2010
• Review Panels, ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (Program Committee), 2009
• Review Panels, ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (Program Committee), 2009
• Associate Editor, International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) 2009 track on “Social Networks, Web 2.0, and Beyond”, 2009
• Associate Editor, International Conference on Information Systems  (ICIS) 2009 track on “Data and Web Mining”, 2009

Committees and Professional Service

• Faculty of the Interdisciplinary Graduate Degree Program in Informatics, 2011-current
• Undergraduate Core Curriculum Review Committee, 2011-current
• Winter Conference on Business Intelligence (University of Utah), 2005-2011
• University of Utah Undergraduate Council, 2008-2011