Daniel Russell

Senior Research Scientist in Search Quality & User Happiness, Google
Dan received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Rochester in 1984, and has been working in the Search team at Google since 2005. His research is centered on how people understand online information, and in particular, how they search for it and use it. He is also fascinated by the ways in which they do not understand these things as well.
Areas of Expertise:
Online search methods
Human-computer interaction, both design and research
Sensemaking (what people do to find information and make sense of what they find)

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