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Gene is currently the group leader of the Usable Smart Environments group. He is also the project leader of the Distributed Interactive Conference Environment (DICE) project team. DICE is a task-oriented interface and infrastructure for controlling meeting spaces. Additionally, he is involved in research with the Collaborative Exploratory Search project. Gene's prior projects with FXPAL include Xlibris and PowerPoint Annotation, web services, and distributed analysis projects.

Before joining FXPAL in 1996, Gene earned his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California at Los Angeles and his Ph.D. from the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Interactive Media Lab, part of the Human Factors/Ergonomics area at the University of Toronto.

Upcoming events

• I am co-organizing a workshop (with Jeremy Pickens and Meredith Ringel Morris) on Collaborative Exploratory Search to be held in conjunction with JCDL 2008 in Pittsburgh, PA
• I am the Workshops chair for JCDL 2008 conference (June 16-19, 2008)

Past events

• I was on the Program Committee for JCDL in 2005 through 2008
• I was the Secretary for ACM SIGWEB from 1999-2003.
• I was on the Program Committee for JCDL in 2002 and 2003
• Between 1999 and 2002, I was involved in Open eBook™ Forum (OEBF) standards work. I was the development sub-group co-chair of the Open eBook™ Publication Structure 1.2 standard, released in 2002.
• I co-organized a tutorial with Cathy Marshall and Elli Mylonas on Evaluating, using, and publishing eBooks at the JCDL 2001 conference
• John Tang and I were Mentoring co-chairs at CHI2000 and CHI2001
• I was panels & briefings chair for Hypertext 2000
• I gave a keynote address at the seminar on Pedagogical Technology and Educational Systems hosted by the The Center for Futurism in Education in Ben Gurion University (Beer-Sheva, Israel, July 26-27, 1999)
• I co-organized a workshop on Designing Electronic Books at CHI99 with With Cathy Marshall and Bill Schilit.
• I co-organized a workshop on Collaborative and co-operative information seeking in digital information environments with Elizabeth Churchill and Dave Snowdon at CSCW '98.
• I co-organized a workshop on users' expectations of querying with Birgit Schmidt-Wesche at SIGIR98.
• I co-organized a workshop on information exploration with Nick Belkin at CHI98.