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James Caverlee

Large Language Models (LLMs) Recommender Systems Conversational Systems Speech Processing AI Risk Assessment

About

Howdy! I'm a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University and a Visiting Researcher at Google DeepMind. With my students and collaborators, we aim to develop trustworthy, resilient, and responsible machine learning algorithms and systems to help people connect to information and to each other. Our group focuses on personalization, efficiency, and AI risks in domains like LLMs, recommender systems, conversational systems, and speech. Our work has appeared in major venues like KDD, EMNLP, WWW, SIGIR, WSDM, AAAI, RecSys, and more. Our papers have been recognized with the 2022 SIGIR Test of Time Award Honorable Mention, the 2020 CIKM Test of Time Award, plus several Best Paper (Candidate) awards. Our research has been generously supported by an NSF CAREER award, an AFOSR Young Investigator Award, a DARPA Young Faculty Award, and multiple grants from Google, Amazon, AFOSR, DARPA, and the NSF. I was the General Co-Chair of WSDM 2020 and serve as a Senior Associate Editor of the ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, as well as the Senior Program Committee of many venues.

Research Performance Summary

271
Total Papers
14058
Total Citations
58
H-Index
2003-2026
Active Research Span

First Recorded Paper

Discovering objects in dynamically-generated web pages

Year: 2003

Citations: 8

Venue: College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology

Latest Recorded Paper

DisastQA: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Evaluating Question Answering in Disaster Management

Year: 2026

Citations: 0

Venue: arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.03670

Last 10 Years Publication Activity

This timeline shows the professor's yearly publication activity.

2026
2
2025
24
2024
23
2023
16
2022
8
2021
17
2020
17
2019
9
2018
19
2017
8
2016
11

Publication Venues and Collaboration

Journal, Conference, and Book Publication Breakdown

Conference 164
Journal 17
Book 1

Top Coauthors

Caverlee Liu Wang

Research Impact by Period

2025-2026

Period Stats
Papers 26
Citations 153
Avg. Citations / Paper 5.9
H-Index 6

2020-2024

Period Stats
Papers 81
Citations 3129
Avg. Citations / Paper 38.6
H-Index 28

2015-2019

Period Stats
Papers 60
Citations 2226
Avg. Citations / Paper 37.1
H-Index 24

2010-2014

Period Stats
Papers 58
Citations 6206
Avg. Citations / Paper 107
H-Index 25

2005-2009

Period Stats
Papers 41
Citations 2223
Avg. Citations / Paper 54.2
H-Index 20

2000-2004

Period Stats
Papers 5
Citations 121
Avg. Citations / Paper 24.2
H-Index 4

Contact and Professional Links

Contact Information

caverlee@cse.tamu.edu
9798450537

Detected Research Keywords

Real Time Web Conversational Recommender Systems Granular Computing System Computing System Vulnerabilities System Vulnerabilities Exploring Vulnerabilities Exploring Dark Exploring Dark Side Dark Side Social Side Social Networking Social Networking Communities