Shiry Ginosar

I am a first year PhD student at the CS Department of the University of California Berkeley, currently working with Professors Bjoern Hartmann and Maneesh Agrawala.
Previously I was a Visiting Scholar at the CS Department of Carnegie Mellon University, working with Professor Luis von Ahn in the field of Human Computation. More recently, I spent four years at Endeca as a Senior Software Engineer.

Contact Info

Mailing Address

UCB EECS, MC 1776
387 Soda Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720-1776
United States

Email

<shiry at eecs dot berkeley dot edu>

Publications

Refereed Conference Publications

• Luis von Ahn, Shiry Ginosar, Mihir Kedia, Manuel Blum, Improving Image Search with Phetch, Proceedings, International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2007. (PDF)
• Luis von Ahn, Shiry Ginosar, Mihir Kedia, Ruoran Liu and Manuel Blum, Improving Accessibility of the Web with a Computer Game, Proceedings, ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2006, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, April 2006, pp. 79-82. Honorable mentioned paper and nominee for Best of CHI award. (PDF)

Workshop Publications

• Shiry Ginosar, Human Computation for HCIR Evaluation, Proceedings, HCIR 2007, pp. 40-42. (PDF)

Press Coverage

Gamers help the blind get the picture New Scientist, 13 May 2006.

Software

Phetch

An online game which collects natural language descriptions for images on the web as a side effect of game play. Can be used to improve the accessibility of the web as well as improve upon current image search engines.