Active projects SEMEDIA - Search Environments for Media. STREP under the Framework Programme 6 - IST Programme 2007-2010, We investigate interactive and personalized video retrieval. I am a member of the supervisory board and lead the tasks on relevance feedback, multimedia mining and retrieval models. MIAUCE - Multi-modal Interactions Analysis and exploration of Users within a Controlled Environment. STREP under the Framework Programme 6 - IST Programme 2006-2009, We investigate personalization and adaptive presentation of information. I am a member of the Executive Board and lead the work package 3 on User profiling and Context Capture. SALERO - Semantic Audiovisual Entertainment Reusable Objects. P Project under the Framework Programme 6 - IST Programme 2006-2010. o In this project we investigate the context-sensitive retrieval of multimedia data related to broadcasting and post-production industry. I am a member of supervisory board and I lead the work package 5 on Context sensitive Information retrieval. K- SPACE - Knowledge Space of semantic inference for automatic annotation and retrieval of multimedia content. Network of excellence (NoE) Project under the Framework Programme 6 - IST Programme 2006-2009 We investigate context-sensitive mining and structuring of multimedia data. I am a member of the technical Management Committee and lead the Work Package 2 on integration Activities and lead the task on Context-sensitive multimedia mining. Past projects Adapt - Adaptive Search Models for Information Retrival. EPSRC funding, Ref: EP/C004108/1. This project is rated as Outstanding by the EPSRC in which we investigated the development adaptive and context-sensitive search models on the world wide web POW - Personalisation of Web Searches through Ostension and Summarisation. EPSRC funding (GR/R74642/01), 2002-2003. This project is rated as Outstanding by the EPSRC in which we investigated the development personalization techniques for the retrieval of information from the world wide web Information retrieval from Peer to Peer overlay networks, EPSRC & Sharp Laboratories of Europe Ltd. Industrial Case Grant (October 2002 – 2006). Personalized Information Retrieval, British Telecom Short Term Research Fellowship; July 2003-April 2004. Travel grant, The Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland, (2004-05). European Science Foundation (ESF)- Exploratory workshop on Information retrieval in Context.