Department of Computing Science
Name:Dr Craig Macdonald
Occupation: Information Retrieval Researcher in the Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow
Research Interests: Expert Search; Blog, Web & Enterprise Information Retrieval


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About Me

I am a post doctorate researcher at the University of Glasgow. I recently completed my PhD under the supervision of Dr. Iadh Ounis. My thesis was titled The Voting Model for People Search.

I am interested in information retrieval (IR) in Web, Enterprise, social settings. I regularly participate in TREC, and jointly co-ordinated the TREC Blog track from 2006-2010, and the Microblog track (from 2011-).

You may know of me as being involved in Terrier. Indeed, I am a lead developer for the Terrier IR platform, and also use Terrier in my research publications. The TerrierTeam and I also blog over at the TerrierTeam@Blogspot, and occasionally chat about IR on Twitter @craig_macdonald.

I am involved in the organisation of CIKM 2011, being held in Glasgow in October 2011. In the past, I have been involved in the organisation ESSIR 2007, and chaired the industry day for ECIR 2008, both of which were also held in Glasgow. I am also a member of BCS IRSG and ACM SIGIR.

Sailing

I sail. I am ex-Commodore, ex-Vice-Commodore and ex-team member of Glasgow University Sailing Club. Outside of the university, I team, match and fleet race in Sonars. In 2011, the Sonar Worlds are coming to Scotland, at the Royal Northern & Clyde Yacht Club.

Several years ago, Colin Baird, one of my friends in the sailing club, (with help from some of his mates) did the Subway Challenge. We've put more info on my Subway Challenge page.