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Mark Smucker is a Professor in the Department of Management Science and Engineering at the University of Waterloo, where he is cross-appointed to the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science in the Faculty of Mathematics. His research focuses on the design, analysis, and evaluation of interactive information retrieval systems, including search engines and recommendation systems. Mark has worked extensively to advance information retrieval evaluation methods that predict actual human search performance. He co-organized the TREC Health Misinformation Track from 2019 to 2022, which provided a venue for research to enhance search engine support for decision making and produced valuable datasets for evaluating web search systems. His contributions have been recognized through various awards, including the ACM SIGIR 2012 Paper Award and the Faculty of Engineering Teaching Excellence Award at the University of Waterloo in 2012, among others.
Includes fields like Clinical, Cognitive, Developmental, and Industrial/Organizational Psychology.