| 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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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 Enterprise, Blog and Web settings. I regularly participate in TREC, and jointly co-ordinate the TREC Blog track.
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. I also blog over at the TerrierTeam.
I was involved in the organisation ESSIR 2007, and chaired the industry day for ECIR 2008, both of which were held in Glasgow. I am also a member of BCS IRSG and ACM SIGIR.
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.