I'm an Information Retrieval researcher. Between 1998 and 2008 I was a research scientist at CSIRO. In July 2008 I took up a full-time position at the Funnelback enterprise search company in the role of Chief Scientist.
My interests lie in the areas of enterprise and Web Search. I am particularly interested in search evaluation in realistic contexts, distributed search techniques, enterprise/intranet search, improvement of search through exploitation of context, personal search and search efficiency. I am a member of the editorial board for the Information Retrieval journal (INRT).
I hold an Adjunct professorship in the College of Engineering and Computer Science at the Australian National University and continue to supervise PhD students:
PhD graduates include:From 1996-2003 I was a coordinator of VLC and Web tracks in the annual Text Retrieval Conference (TREC). The activities of these tracks are summarised in < href="pubs/trecbook_for_website.pdf">Chapter 9 of the MIT Press book (Ellen M. Voorhees and Donna K. Harman (Ed.s), TREC - Experiment and Evaluation in Information Retrieval, ISBN 0262220733.)
I was a Program Chair of ACM
SIGIR in 2003 and again in 2006. I hold an honorary
doctorate from the University
of Neuchâtel and was awarded the Chris Wallace prize for Computer
Science at Australasian Computer
Science Week 2005.