Jacob Bartel - UNC Chapel Hill

General Info

I am currently a sofware engineer at Google LLC

I received my B.S. in Computer Science with a minor in Mathematics from UNC-Chapel Hill in May 2009, my M.S. in Computer Science in May 2012 from UNC-Chapel Hill, and my Ph.D. in Computer Science in 2015.

What am I up to?

I completed my Ph.D. in 2015 under Prof. Prasun Dewan on recommendations to assist users when sharing information at large scales, and I currently am at Google, Inc. working in software infrastructure for social applications.

I was also a TA in Spring and Fall of 2014 working with Dr. Jay Aikat for Comp 110 - Introduction to Programming. As a part of my TA duties, I developed and managed the backend of a automated grader program developed originally by Prof. Prasun Dewan and Joshua Monson. This tool automatically grades assignments and allows multiple and distributed TAs the ability to quickly grade and review assignments from over 300 students

Interests

My area of interest encompasses two different areas, mostly due to my involvement in different projects in my undergraduate and graduate career. I have a keen interest in generating predictions and recommendations for information sharing using a variety of data mining and machine learning techniques. I also enjoy working with collaborative user interface generation. Specifically, I have worked with generating collaborative applications using the Java AWT, Swing, SWT, and GWT toolkits.

Dissertation

Predictions to Ease Users' Effort in Scalable Sharing

Document: PDF
Recorded Talk: YouTube
Slides with narration: PowerPoint; YouTube

Conference Publications

Jacob W. Bartel and Prasun Dewan. "Towards Evolutionary Named Group Recommendations." Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) (2018): 1-36. (Acceptance ratio 0.37)

Document: Springer; EUSSET; Author version
Talk: YouTube

Danwei Li, Jacob Bartel, and Prasun Dewan. "Extending the Gmail User-Interface to Leverage Prediction of Response Times and Hierarchical Recipients." Proceedings of 16th European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work-Panels, Posters and Demos. European Society for Socially Embedded Technologies (EUSSET), 2018.

Document: EUSSET
Poster: PDF

Preeti Arunapuram, Jacob Bartel, and Prasun Dewan. Distribution, Correlation and Prediction of Response Times in Stack Overflow. 10th IEEE International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing (IEEE CollaborateCom 2014). Oct 2014.

Document: Private

Andrew Ghobrial, Jacob Bartel, and Prasun Dewan. Towards Composable Prediction of Contact Groups. 10th IEEE International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing (IEEE CollaborateCom 2014). Oct 2014.

Document: Private

Jacob Bartel and Prasun Dewan. Evolving Friend Lists in Social Networks. 7th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys). October 2013. (Acceptance ratio: 0.34)

Document: ACM Digital Library; Private
Presentation: Poster

Jacob Bartel and Prasun Dewan. Towards Hierarchical Email Recipient Prediction. 8th IEEE International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing (IEEE CollaborateCom 2012). Pittsburgh, PA. Oct 2012. (Acceptance Ratio: 0.25)

Document: IEEE Explore; Private
Talk: PPTX; YouTube

Jacob Bartel and Prasun Dewan. Towards Multi-Domain Collaborative Toolkits. Proceedings of the ACM 2012 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (ACM CSCW 2012). Feb 2012. (Two-round review process)

Document: ACM Digital Library; Private
Source code: GitHub

Connor Hamlet, Daniel Korn, Nikhil Prasad, Volodymyr Siedlecki, Eliezer Encarnacion, Jacob Bartel, and Prasun Dewan. User-Interfaces for Incremental Recipient and Response Time Predictions in Asynchronous Messaging. Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces Companion (IUI Companion 2015). April 2015.

Document: ACM Digital Library; Private

Previous Work

I have helped develop a virtual toolkit for transparently creating a collaborative GUIs using the Java AWT, Swing, SWT or GWT toolkits. The specific toolkit can be chosen at runtime.
The source code for the project can be found here.

In the fall of 2009, I was a TA for Professor Steve Weiss in Comp 110, Introduction to Programming. The course webpage can be found here .
The page for recitation materials can be found here.

I worked as an intern programmer at the Smithsonian Institution Archives in the Summer of 2008. One of my major code projects was developing a script to combine the outputs of the Jhove and DROID scanning tools into one easily understandable output. The project is detailed here.