Where I am:

• Wayfair.com: a zillion things home.
• Search Technologies

• I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.
  —Kurt Vonnegut
• If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.
  —Francis Bacon
• To teach is to learn twice.
  —Joseph Joubert

• Information Retrieval
• Evaluation
• Novelty & Diversity
• Machine Learning and Statistics
• Information Theory

• Doctor of Philosphy in Computer Science at Northeastern Universiy
• Advisor: Javed A. Aslam
• Dissertation: Beyond Measuring Performance: Targeted Meta-Evaluations for Diversity and an Information-Theoretic Framework for the Analysis of Search Engines (Slides)
• Date of Graduation: June, 2014
• Peter B. Golbus, Javed A. Aslam: On the Information Difference between Standard Retrieval Models. SIGIR 2014
• Peter B. Golbus, Imed Zitouni, Jin Young Kim, Ahmed Hassan, Fernando Diaz: Contextual and Dimensional Relevance Judgments for Reusable SERP-Level Evaluation. WWW 2014
• Peter B. Golbus, Javed A. Aslam, Charles L. A. Clarke: Increasing evaluation sensitivity to diversity. Inf. Retr. 16(4). 2013
• Peter B. Golbus, Javed A. Aslam: A mutual information-based framework for the analysis of information retrieval systems. SIGIR 2013 (slides)
• Maryam Bashir, Jesse Anderton, Jie Wu, Peter B. Golbus, Virgil Pavlu, Javed A. Aslam: A document rating system for preference judgements. SIGIR 2013
• Virgil Pavlu, Shahzad Rajput, Peter B. Golbus, Javed A. Aslam: IR system evaluation using nugget-based test collections. WSDM 2012
• Shahzad Rajput, Virgil Pavlu, Peter B. Golbus, Javed A. Aslam: A nugget-based test collection construction paradigm. CIKM 2011
• Peter B. Golbus, Robert W. McGrail, Tomasz Przytycki, Mary Sharac, Aleksandar Chakarov: Tricolorable torus knots are NP-complete. ACM Southeast Regional Conference 2009

• pgolbus [at] wayfair [dot] com