James Allan (computer scientist)

{{Short description|Computer Scientist}}

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| name = James Allan

| occupation = Professor of computer science at University of Massachusetts Amherst

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James Allan is the Chair of Faculty and Professor of computer science at University of Massachusetts Amherst and was named an ACM Fellow 2020,{{Cite web|title=2020 ACM Fellows Recognized for Work that Underpins Today's Computing Innovations|url=https://www.acm.org/media-center/2021/january/fellows-2020|access-date=2021-04-13|website=www.acm.org|language=en}}{{Cite web|date=2021-01-15|title=Congratulations to the 2020 ACM Fellows!|url=https://cra.org/congratulations-to-the-2020-acm-fellows/|access-date=2021-04-13|website=CRA|language=en-US}} for his research and contributions to the area of information retrieval.{{Cite web|title=James Allan named 2020 ACM Fellow {{!}} Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval {{!}} UMass Amherst|url=http://ciir.cs.umass.edu/node/564|access-date=2021-04-13|website=ciir.cs.umass.edu}} His research has been cited more than 20,000 times (April 2021).{{Cite web|title=James Allan|url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=-bLGeg0AAAAJ|access-date=2021-04-13|website=scholar.google.com}} In 2019, James Allan was elected to be the treasurer of the Computing Research Association for a term of two years.{{Cite web|date=2019-03-05|title=2019 CRA Board Election Results and FY20 Executive Committee|url=https://cra.org/2019-cra-board-election-results-and-fy20-executive-committee/|access-date=2021-04-13|website=CRA|language=en-US}}