Online Visibility, Business Intelligence, Web and Data Mining, Vertical/Personalized Search and Web Crawlers, Information Retrieval, Search Engine Marketing and Optimization, Knowledge Management.

• Associate Editor, Information Systems Research (ISR), 2011-.

• Assistant Professor, University of Utah, 2004-2011.

• David Eccles Emerging Scholar, University of Utah, 2009-2011.

:: Working Papers ::

• I. Kim, G. Pant. Predicting Audience Demographics of Web Sites: Design vs. Content Cues.

• G. Pant, P. Srinivasan. Status Locality on the Web: Implications for Building Focused Collections.

• G. Pant, O. R. L. Sheng. Web Footprints of Firms: Using Online Isomorphism for Competitor Identification.

• G. Pant, S. Pant. Explaining the Web Site Visibility of Firms.

• News, Returns, and the Spread of Information (with M. Cooper, S. Pant).

:: Journals ::

• Z. Ma, O. R. L. Sheng, G. Pant, A. Iriberri. Can Visible Cues in Search Results Indicate Vendors' Reliability?. Decision Support Systems. Conditionally Accepted.

• Z. Ma, G. Pant, O. R. L. Sheng. Mining Competitor Relationships from Online News: A Network-based Approach. Electronic Commerce Research and Applications. Forthcoming.

• Z. Ma, G. Pant, O. R. L. Sheng. Examining the Organic and Sponsored Search Results: A Vendor Reliability Prespective. Journal of Computer Information Systems. Summer 2010.

• G. Pant, P. Srinivasan. Predicting Web Page Status. Information Systems Research,Vol. 21, No. 2, June 2010. [working paper version]

• Z. Ma, O. R. L. Sheng, G. Pant. Discovering Company Revenue Relations from News: A Network Approach. Decision Support Systems, Nov 2009.

• Z. Ma, G. Pant, O. R. L. Sheng. Interest-based Personalized Search. ACM Transactions on Information Systems, Jan 2007.

• G. Pant, P. Srinivasan. Link Contexts in Classifier-Guided Topical Crawlers. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Jan 2006 .

• G. Pant, P. Srinivasan. Learning to Crawl: Comparing Classification Schemes. ACM Transactions on Information Systems, Oct 2005.

• P. Srinivasan, F. Menczer, G. Pant. A General Evaluation Framework for Topical Crawlers. Information Retrieval, 2005.

• F. Menczer, G. Pant, P. Srinivasan. Topical Web Crawlers: Evaluating Adaptive Algorithms. ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, Nov 2004.

• G. Pant, F. Menczer. MySpiders: Evolve your own intelligent Web crawlers. Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 2002.

:: Conference and Workshop Proceedings ::

• I. Kim, G. Pant. Predicting Audience Demographics of Web Sites: Design vs. Content Cues. Proc. 20th Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS), 2010.

• G. Pant, O. R. L. Sheng. Avoiding the Blind Spots: Competitor Identification Using Web Text and Linkage Structure. Proc. 30th International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), 2009.

• Z. Ma, G. Pant, O. R. L. Sheng. A Network-Based Approach to Mining Competitor Relationships from Online News. Proc. 30th International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), 2009.

• G. Pant, S. Pant, P. Srinivasan. Can You See Us Now? A Study on Web Site Visibility. Proc. 18th Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS'08), 2008.

• G. Pant, P. Srinivasan. Utility-biased Web Crawler: Combining Topicality and Status. Proc. 18th Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS'08), 2008.

• Z. Ma, G. Pant, O. R. L. Sheng. The Inorganic Side of Paid Search, 6th Workshop on e-Business, 2007.

• Z. Ma, O. R. L. Sheng, and G. Pant. Using Social Network Analysis to Automatically Discover Competitor Relationships from Business News, 5th Workshop on e-Business, 2006.

• G. Pant. Building Web Collections for Vertical Markets. Proc. 15th Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS'05), 2005.

• Z. Ma, O. R. L. Sheng, G. Pant. Evaluation of Ontology-based User Interests Modeling. 4th Workshop on e-Business, 2005.

• G. Pant, K. Tsioutsiouliklis, J. Johnson, C.L. Giles. Panorama: Extending Digital Libraries with Topical Crawlers. Proc. ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2004).

• P. Srinivasan, F. Menczer, G. Pant. Defining Evaluation Methodologies for Topical Crawlers. Position paper, SIGIR 2003 Workshop on Defining Evaluation Methodologies for Terabyte-Scale Collections.

• G. Pant, S. Bradshaw, F. Menczer. Search Engine-Crawler Symbiosis: Adapting to Community Interests. Proc. 7th European Conference on Research and Advance d Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL 2003).

• G. Pant, F. Menczer. Topical Crawling for Business Intelligence. Proc. 7th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Librarie s (ECDL 2003).

• G. Pant. Deriving Link-context from HTML Tag Tree. Proc. 8th ACM SIGMOD Workshop on Research Issues in Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (DMKD 2003).

• P. Srinivasan, J. Mitchell, O. Bodenreider, G. Pant, F. Menczer. Web Crawling Agents for Retrieving Biomedical Information. Proc. Int. Workshop on Agents in Bioinfor matics (NETTAB 2002).

• G. Pant, P. Srinivasan, F. Menczer. Exploration versus Exploitation in Topic Driven Crawlers. WWW 2002 Workshop on Web Dynamics.

• F. Menczer, G. Pant, M. Ruiz, P. Srinivasan. Evaluating Topic-Driven Web Crawlers. Proc. ACM SIGIR 2001.

• M. Degeratu, G. Pant, F. Menczer. Latency-dependent fitness in evolutionary multithreaded Web agents. Proc. GECCO 2001 EcoMAS Workshop.

• D. Sturgill and G. Pant. Evaluation Criteria for Genetically-Tuned Problem Solving Experts. Proc. GECCO 1999.

:: Book Chapter ::

• G. Pant, P. Srinivasan, F. Menczer. Crawling the Web. in M. Levene and A. Poulovassilis, editors: Web Dynamics, Springer-Verlag, 2003.