Current Members

Professor C.J. 'Keith' van Rijsbergen - (keith at dcs.gla.ac.uk) Theoretical development of probabilistic and logic-based models, multimedia IR systems, information analysis and access across media, evaluation and usability of IR systems and data mining of large data sets of clinical information.

Academic Staff

Dr Sachi Arafat - (sachi at dcs.gla.ac.uk) Information retrieval by ostension, Quantum/non-classical models of Information Retrieval & cognition during retrieval.

		Dr Leif Azzopardi- (leif at dcs.gla.ac.uk) The Behavior of Computation of Information Retrieval models (i.e. Behaviorial Computing Science); The study and evaluation of Information Access Systems and their Usage; The development of Peer to Peer and Distributed Information Retrieval systems; Theoretical and Formal Models (in particular Language Models) for Information Retrieval.

		Professor Joemon Jose - (jj at dcs.gla.ac.uk) Context sensitive information retrieval, adaptive information retrieval, personalised information retrieval, implicit feedback based search systems, interactive information retrieval, affective search systems, information retrieval over mobile devices, evaluation of information retrieval systems, multimedia information retrieval (image retrieval, video retrieval, video summarisation and browsing), architectures for information retrieval, peer to peer information retrieval.

		Professor Mounia Lalmas - (mounia at acm.org) I am working on many aspects related to information retrieval. From 2002 to 2007, I co-led the INEX initiative, which is the evaluation forum for XML retrieval. I have now started to work on aggregated search and bridging the digital divide. I am currently getting back into theoretical information retrieval where I am looking at the use of quantum theory to model information retrieval. I currently hold a Microsoft/Royal Academy of Engineering Research Chair in Information Retrieval.

Dr Iadh Ounis- (ounis at dcs.gla.ac.uk) Web information retrieval; Information retrieval in Intranet/Enterprise settings; Information retrieval on the Blogosphere; Distributed information retrieval; Large-scale text retrieval system building; Probabilistic IR models, especially DFR-based models; Evaluation and scalability of search engines; Hyperlink structure analysis; Methods of combination/fusion; Text mining; Multilingual retrieval; NLP for textual information retrieval; Study of Users's Web/Enterprise query and browsing logs; Desktop search; Semantic Web; Terrier IR platform

Research Staff

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		Dr. Ivan Cantador- (cantador at dcs.gla.ac.uk) Recommender systems, personalised information retrieval, communities of interest, semantic web, machine learning.
		Dr. Ronan Cummins- (ronanc at dcs.gla.ac.uk) Learning to Rank in IR, Aggregated Search Evaluation, Expert Search.
		Mr Desmond Elliott- (delliott at dcs.gla.ac.uk) Context modelling for personalised information retrieval.
		Dr Ingo Frommholz- (ingo at dcs.gla.ac.uk) Logic-based information retrieval (especially quantum logics), retrieval based on user annotations, interactive retrieval.
		Mr Anuj Goyal- (anuj at dcs.gla.ac.uk) Multimedia information retrieval, Image and video processing, Video Segmentation; Video Summarisation; Active Learning; Multimedia Security
		Dr Martin Halvey- (halvey at dcs.gla.ac.uk) Adaptive IR, personalisation, mobile web browsing and search, adaptive/intelligent interfaces,implicit feedback,intelligent query expansion.
		Dr Iraklis Angelos Klampanos- (iraklis at dcs.gla.ac.uk) Patent retrieval, distributed and peer-to-peer information retrieval, experimental evaluation and simulation, document clustering.
		Dr Craig Macdonald - (craigm at dcs.gla.ac.uk) Information Retrieval in Enterprise, Blog and Web settings, including People Search.
		Dr Hemant Misra- (hemant at dcs.gla.ac.uk) Extracting semantics using unsupervised topic modeling for applications such as text segmentation, text categorization, multi-media information retrieval, language model adaptation; automatic speech recognition (ASR); multi-stream ASR; signal processing; machine learning.
		Dr Benjamin Piwowarski- (benjamin at bpiwowar.net) My research now focus on developing formal models for (Structured) Information Retrieval (IR) inspired by the Quantum Mechanic formalism. I am also interested in IR evaluation, machine learning for IR, interactive IR, and XML databases.
		Dr Punitha Puttu Swamy- (punitha at dcs.gla.ac.uk) Spatial Knowledge Representation, Image Retrieval, Advanced Data Structures, Content based Image Retrieval, Image Segmentation, Document Image Analysis, Skew Detection in Document Images.
		Dr Reede Ren - (reede at dcs.gla.ac.uk) Statistical learning and pattern recognition; applications relating to structure discovery and summarization of temporal sequences, and video information retrieval.
		Dr David Vallet- (dvallet at dcs.gla.ac.uk) Information retrieval, personalized retrieval, search recommendations, implicit feedback, semantic web applied to multimedia information retrieval, context aware retrieval.
		Dr Robert Villa- (villar at dcs.gla.ac.uk) Use of implicit information in information retrieval, interface design and evaluation.

Research Students

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Mr Ioannis Arapakis - (arapakis at dcs.gla.ac.uk) Affective information retrieval, affective feedback, affective behaviour modelling, cognitive information retrieval, interactive information retrieval, implicit & explicit feedback, multi-modal human-computer interaction, computer supported collaborative work.

Mr Ali Azimi Bolourian - (azimi at dcs.gla.ac.uk) Quantification and projection of topic propagation on the Blogosphere, social networks and other large-scale collaborative networks; Graph-based IR techniques, Space IR; Interactive IR.

Mr Erik Graf - (graf at dcs.gla.ac.uk) Web Information retrieval, Collaborative Filtering.

Mr Frank Hopfgartner - (hopfgarf at dcs.gla.ac.uk) Adaptive Video Retrieval, Interface design, relevance feedback in video retrieval.

Mr Álvaro Huertas - (alvaro at dcs.gla.ac.uk) Theoretical models for IR Quantum Logics and Vector Models

Mr Teerapong Leelanupab - (kimm at dcs.gla.ac.uk) My current research interest is Multimedia Information Retrieval concentrating on Personal Digital Information Management. This deals with content extraction, and multimedia annotation as well as clustering, searching and browsing techniques so as to select appropriate components based on similarity.

Mr Andrew McHugh - (a.mchugh at hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk) Digital preservation; digital libraries; intelligent preservation objects; personalization; recommender systems; annotation-assisted search; ontologies; emulation; binary translation; preserving dynamic materials; preservation validation.

Mr Yashar Moshfeghi - (yashar at dcs.gla.ac.uk) Adaptive information retrieval, personalised information retrieval, implicit feedback based search systems, interactive information retrieval, affective search systems, cognitive information retrieval, sentiment information retrieval.

Mr Jie Peng - (pj at dcs.gla.ac.uk) Combination of evidence in information retrieval

Mr Rodrygo L. T. Santos - (rodrygo at dcs.gla.ac.uk) Web information retrieval, social networks, user‐generated content, semantic Web, digital libraries, systems design and development, experimental design and analysis.

Ms Shanu Sushmita - (shanu at dcs.gla.ac.uk) My current areas of research interests are: Aggregated web search, Interactive Information Retrieval Systems, Analysis of user behavior in context of web search, Multi-document summarization and Document clustering.

Mr Ke Zhou - (zhouke at dcs.gla.ac.uk) Robust Aggregated Search, Interactive Information Retrieval, Robust Multimedia Recommender Systems, Collaborative Information Filtering.

Mr Guido Zuccon - (guido at dcs.gla.ac.uk) Theoretical and formal models for IR, in particular inspired by Quantum Theory; context modeling (using QT); Logical Imaging, High Dimensions Vector Spaces.

Intern Students

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Mr Roi Blanco - (rblanco at udc.es) September-December 2005.

Mrs You Jin Chang - (youjinchang at dcs.qmul.ac.uk) August 2003 to March 2005.

Dr Jean Martinet - (jean at nii.ac.jp) July-December 2002.

Mr Andrés Masegosa - (andrew at decsai.ugr.es) July-December 2006.

Mr Abhishek Sharma - (sabhishek at banasthali.ac.in) October 2004-September 2005.

Mr David Vallet - (dvallet at dcs.gla.ac.uk) July-December 2007.

Collaborators

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Dr Gianni Amati - (gianni at dcs.gla.ac.uk) Information Retrieval and Filtering, Probabilistic Reasoning, Logic: Proof Theory and Non-classical Logics, Artificial Intelligence: Nonmonotonic Reasoning.

Dr Matthew Chalmers - (matthew at dcs.gla.ac.uk) Information representation and use, path systems, which are contextually-specific recommender systems, and more theoretical work relating architecture, semiology and philosophy to informatics.

Dr Martin Gardner - (martin at dcs.gla.ac.uk) Case Based Reasoning, Channel Theory, hand-held computers, design of context-sensitive interfaces and the Web.

Dr Adrian Mueller - (amueller at de.ibm.com) Text Mining and Information Retrieval, Visualization Interfaces for Interactive process of Mining of Information.

Visiting Professors

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Professor Peter Bruza - (bruza at at dstc.edu.au) Visited us from The Distributed Systems Technology Centre (DSTC) in Brisbane, Australia.

Professor Norbert Fuhr - (norbert.fuhr at uni-due.de) Visited us from Department of Informatics, University of Duisburg-Essen in Duisburg, Germany.

Professor Kalervo Järvelin - (kalervo.jarvelin at uta.fi) Visited us from Department of Information Studies, University of Tampere in Finland.

Professor A. Desai Narasimhalu - (desai at krdl.org.sg) Visited us from The Institute of Systems Science (ISS) in Singapore, now at Kent Ridge Digital Labs in Singapore.

Ass. Professor Fidel Cacheda Seijo - (fidel at udc.es) Visited us from Department of Information and Communications Technologies at the University of A Coruña, Spain.

Past Members

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Mirna Adriani - (mirna at dcs.gla.ac.uk)

Azreen Azman -

Mark Baillie - (mark.baillie at cis.strath.ac.uk)

Di Cai - (caid at dcs.gla.ac.uk)

Iain Campbell - (iain at dcs.gla.ac.uk)

Fabio Crestani - (Fabio.Crestani at cis.strath.ac.uk)

Mark Dunlop - (Mark.Dunlop at cis.strath.ac.uk)

Yue Feng - (yuefeng at dcs.gla.ac.uk)

Ben He - (ben at dcs.gla.ac.uk)

Xavier Hilaire -

Christoph Gerber -

Alasdair Gray - (agray at dcs.gla.ac.uk)

Srikant Jakilinki -

Hideo Joho - (hideo at dcs.gla.ac.uk)

Christina Lioma - (xristina at dcs.gla.ac.uk)

Mark Magennis - (mark at frontend.com)

Vassilis Plachouras - (vassilis at dcs.gla.ac.uk)

Ioannis Psarras - (psarras at dcs.gla.ac.uk)

Sukai Qiu -

Jane Reid - (jane at dcs.qmul.ac.uk)

Ian Ruthven - (Ian.Ruthven at cis.strath.ac.uk)

Mark Sanderson - (m.sanderson at sheffield.ac.uk)

Tengku Mohd T. Sembok - (tmts at sun1.ftsm.ukm.my)

Jialie Shen - (jlshen at smu.edu.sg)

Lalendra Sumitha Balasuriya - (sumitha at dcs.gla.ac.uk)

Marcos Theophylactou -

Tassos Tombros - (tassos at dcs.qmul.ac.uk)

Jana Urban -

Ryen W. White - (ryenw at microsoft.com)

Huang Zheng - (hzheng at dcs.gla.ac.uk)