Academic Background
Ph.D. Candidate, Information Science, September 1999 - present
School of Communication, Information & Library Studies, Rutgers University

Cognitive Science Certificate Student, September 2000 - present
Rutgers University Center for Cognitive Science, Rutgers University,

Master of Arts in, Mass Communication, December 1998
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Master Thesis: “’Information Society' for 'Developmental State’
The Political Economy of Telecommunications Reform in Taiwan”

Bachelor of Arts, Advertising, May 1991
National Cheng-Chi University, Taipei, Taiwan

Research Activities
Rutgers TREC Research Team Member, April 2001 - 2003
Dr. Nicholas J. Belkin, Principal Investigator, SCILS, Rutgers University

Research Assistant, May 2003- 2004
"Testing the Effectiveness of Collaborative Filtering for Information Retrieval Systems in a Virtual Laboratory: A Pilot Study."
Dr. Zhang Xiangmin, Principal Investigator, SCILS, Rutgers University

Teaching Experiences
Instructor,
course: Knowledge structures for information professionals, Fall 2005 (Link to the class website)
Course: Organizing Information, Fall 2004 (Link to the class website)
Teaching Assistant,
Course: Quantitative Research Method, Fall 2002
Course: Multimedia Production, Summer 2003

Professional Experiences
Webmaster, Fall 2003-present
IMLS funded project “Impact of School Libraries on Student Learning”
Principal Investigator: Dr Ross J Todd and Dr Carol C Kuhlthau

Editorial assistant, 2000-present
Journal of Information Processing and Management
Chief Editor: Dr. Tefko Saracevic

Thesaurus Designer (part-time position), 2002
Scholarly Communication Center, Rutgers University Library

Publications and Presentations
Peer-reviewed journal articles
M.-C. Tang, (2005). Representation Practices in Digital Museums: A Case
Study of the National Digital Museum Project of Taiwan. International Information and Library Review .

M.-C. Tang, Sun Ying (2003). Evaluation of Web-Based Search Engines
Using User Effort Measures. Library and Information Science
Research Electronic Journal 13(2).

Poster
M.-C. Tang, Ying, Nicholas Belkin (2004). An investigation of a query
term elicitation technique using faceted query boxes. at ASIS&T
(American Society for Information Science and Technology) 2004
annual meeting.

Presentation
M.–C. Tang (2004). Display cultural materials online: a study of
representational schemes for pictorial information presented at
ASIS&T (American Society for Information Science and
Technology) 2003 annual meeting.

Conference proceedings
Belkin, N.J., Cool, C., Kelly, D., Lee, H.-J., Muresan, G., Tang, M.-C.,
&Yuan, X.-J. (2003). Query length in interactive information
retrieval. In Proceedings of the 26th Annual ACM International
Conference on Research and Development in Information
Retrieval (SIGIR ’03), Toronto, CA.

Belkin, N.J., Cool, C., Kelly, D., Kim, G., Kim, J., Lee, H.-J., Muresan,
G., Tang, M.-C., & Yuan, X.-J.. (2003). Rutgers' TREC 2002
Interactive Track Experience. In D. Harman & E. Voorhees (Eds.),
TREC2002, Proceedings of the Tenth Text Retrieval Conference.
Washington, D.C.: GPO.

Belkin, N.J., Cool, C., Jeng, J., Keller, A., Kelly, D., Kim, J., Lee, H.-J.,
Tang, M.-C., & Yuan, X.-J.. (2002). Rutgers' TREC 2001
Interactive Track Experience. In D. Harman & E. Voorhees (Eds.),
TREC2001, Proceedings of the Tenth Text Retrieval Conference.
Washington, D.C.: GPO.

Awards & Honors
Garfield ASIST Student Travel Awards, 2003
Outstanding Graduate Award, National Cheng-Chi University,
1991.