Current
I supervise the following post-docs/research students:- Ben He: Postdoctoral Researcher on the EU Simap project.
- Craig Macdonald: Postdoctoral researcher leading the research and development efforts in the Terrier project.
- Stuart Chalmers: Postdoctoral researcher on the Explicator project.
- Jie Peng: PhD student working on the combination of evidence in Information Retrieval; Combination of Document priors; Web IR; Language Modelling.
- Sukai Qiu: MSc student working on the information seeking behaviour in the blogosphere.
- Rodrygo Santos: PhD student working Web/Blog search as well as social networks.
- Richard Mccreadie: PhD student working News search.
- Tamara Polajnar PhD student working on Text Mining and Information Retrieval on biomedical texts ( Prof. Mark Girolami is the First supervisor)
Alumni
- Alasdair Gray: Worked as a postdoctoral researcher on the Explicator project. Currently postdoctoral researcher at the University of Manchester.
- Craig Macdonald: Graduated with a PhD degree on "The Voting Model for People Search" in 2009. Currently a postdoctoral researcher, leading the research and development efforts in the Terrier project.
- Rachel Tsz-Wai Lo: Graduated with a PhD on "Feature extraction for range image interpretation using local topology statistics" (Second supervisor) ( Dr. Paul Siebert is the First supervisor)
- Christina Lioma: Graduated with a PhD degree on "Part of speech N-grams for information retrieval" in 2008. Currently a research assistant in KUL, Belgium
- Ben He: Graduated with a PhD degree on "Term Frequency Normalisation in Information Retrieval" in 2007. Worked as a postdoctoral Researcher on the Techhound project. Currently postdoctoral researcher on the SIMAP project
- Azreen Azman: Graduated with a PhD degree on " Intertemporal Choice for Browsing in Information Retrieval" in 2007. Currently Lecturer in Malaysia.
- Vassilis Plachouras: Graduated with a PhD degree on "Selective Web Information Retrieval" in 2006 . Currently working as a Researcher at Yahoo! Research Barcelona.
- Greg Ross: Graduated with a PhD degree on Information Visualisation in 2006 (Second supervisor).
- Ali Al-Shahib: Graduated with a PhD thesis on Bioinformatics and Text Mining in 2005 (Second supervisor).
Research Interns
- Erik Graf: Worked on studying users's query and browsing logs from September 2006 to August 2007.
- Roi Blanco: Visited From the University of A Corunna, Spain, from September to December 2005.
- Abhishek Sharma: Visited From the Department of Computer Science and Electronics at Banasthali Vidyapith (Raj.) Univesity, India, from October 2004-September 2005.
- You Jin Chang: Visited from Ajou University, Suwon, Republic of Korea, from August 2003 to March 2004.
- Jean Martinet: Visited From the Univesity Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France, from July to December 2002.
I am keen in accepting PhD students in the general areas of research of my interest. Feel free to contact me informally about this to discuss possible topics of mutual interests and possible funding opportunities