Alejandra Gonzalez-Beltran is a Senior Research Associate on Computational and Systems Medicine at University College London, UK. She holds a PhD from Queen’s University Belfast, UK, and a Licentiateship (equivalent to MSc) in Computer Science from Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina. Her research interests are on data and metadata management for large-scale distributed systems, including knowledge representation and federated ontology-based queries for biomedical applications.
Andy is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Information Science at City University, and currently co-directs the Centre of Interactive Systems Research with Prof Stephen Robertson of Microsoft Research Cambridge. He is the Chair of the BCS Information
Retrieval Specialist Group and is a long standing member of that SG.
Cathal Gurrin is the SFI Stokes lecturer at the School of Computing at Dublin City University, Ireland. He is also an adjunct faculty member at the department of computer science at the University of Tromso, in Norway. His research centers on human digital memories and the challenges of developing a new generation of search-engine and content-understanding tools to support users in gathering and searching huge personal life-blog archives. He is also a faculty member of the Centre for Sensor Web Technologies at Dublin City University and University College Dublin. He has published more than 75 book chapters, journal articles, and conference papers.
Claudia Hauff is a postdoctoral researcher at the Delft University of
Technology in the Netherlands. She received her PhD in information
retrieval from the University of Twente in the Netherlands. Her
research interests include retrieval evaluation, retrieval on the
social Web and query performance prediction.
Charlie Hull runs Flax, open source search specialists based in Cambridge, U.K. Flax build search applications based on open source software for clients worldwide.
Frank Hopfgartner is postdoctoral researcher at the CLARITY: Centre for Sensor Web Technologies and member of the Human Media Archives research group in Dublin, Ireland. Prior to joining CLARITY, he worked as postdoctoral research fellow at the International Computer Science Institute, affiliated with University of California, Berkeley and as research associate at the Multimedia & Vision Group of Queen Mary, University of London. He received his PhD in Information Retrieval from the University of Glasgow, UK.
Franco Maria Nardini is currently a research fellow at ISTI-CNR in Pisa. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Information Engineering of the University of Pisa in 2011 discussing his thesis "Query Log Mining to Enhance User Experience in Search Engines". His research interests are mainly focused on Information retrieval and Web mining. His work is focused on developing techniques for extracting and exploiting valuable knowledge from the behavior of Web search engine users, and on the use of those techniques within efficient and effective solutions to increase the user experience in Web search engines.
Marianne Sweeny started out as an information architect in 1997. She transitioned to optimizing search systems after studying information retrieval at the University of Washington. Through her company Daedalus Information Systems, she offers strategic search consulting for organic, paid and enterprise search systems. She can be reached at msweeny@speakeasy.net.
Tony Russell-Rose is currently director of UXLabs, a user experience research and design consultancy specialising in complex search and information access applications. Previously Tony has led R&D teams at Canon, Reuters, HP Labs and BT Labs, and seems happy to work for pretty much any organisation that has 'Labs' in the title. He is Honorary Visitng Fellow at City University London and is currently writing a book on search user experience design.
Tyler Tate is co-founder and user experience lead at TwigKit where he has helped government and blue-chip organisations build superb search experiences. Tyler organises the Enterprise Search London meetup and has written for a number of publications including A List Apart, Boxes & Arrows, and Smashing Magazine. Before focusing on search, Tyler designed web applications from CMS to CRM.
Udo Kruschwitz is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Essex. His main interests are in information retrieval and natural language engineering. He has been a member of the IRSG committee for a few years now and enjoys in particular being involved in organising events such as Search Solutions and ECIR Industry Day which aim at bringing together academia and industry. He will co-chair SIGIR Industry Track in August.
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