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Team and Collaborators

Primary Contact: Natasa Milic-Frayling

 

 Natasa

Natasa

Milic-Frayling

Natasa's current research focus is on prototyping and evaluating advanced information management and communication systems. Projects span three areas: rich Web client, text mining, and mobile applications and services. 

 

Gabriella Kazai

Gabriella joined MSRC in May 2006. Her research interests include structured document retrieval, in particular applied to books, and its evaluation. She was organizer of the Book Search track at INEX 2007. She also continues working on metrics for the evaluation of XML IR systems. Another project she is involved in is Research Desktop.

 Eduarda

Eduarda
Mendes Rodrigues

Eduarda joined the team in Sep 2005, with a post-doctoral grant from the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology. Her main research interests include text mining, link analysis, web information retrieval and social network analysis. Eduarda is involved in several projects, including Research Desktop, InSite Live, NodeXL, Community Buzz.

 

Gavin Smyth

Gavin is a Research Software Developer, with the team since 2002, working on a variety of projects: prototyping and evaluation of a rich Web client, user study and data analysis tools, and research experiments.
 

Jamie Costello

Jamie is a Software Development Consultant, working on Mobile Applications and Services. He joined the team in July 2004.

 

Rachel Jones

Rachel has been collaborating with the Integrated Systems team since 2002. She is Director of Instrata Ltd, founded in 2001, specializing in user-centred design and technology development. In the past, Rachel worked at Xerox EuroPARC and Sapient (formerly E-lab).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Collaborators and Former Associates

 

Vishwa Vinay

Vinay joined the Integrated Systems group in 2007 as a Post Doc Researcher after completing his PhD in University College London in the area of text retrieval. Vinay is now an Applied Researcher with the Sharepoint product team.

 

Martin Hicks

Martin was an HCI assistant, helping with the design and implementation of user studies. He was with the team between March 2006 and June 2007.

 

Blaz Fortuna

Blaz joined the team in September 2006 for a 6-months internship, collaborating in the Community Buzz and InSite Live! projects. His research interest include machine learning with applications in text mining.

 

Shashank Pandit

Shashank spent three months as Summer 2005 intern with the Integrated Systems team, working on mining of Web site structure.
 

Jan Munttermann

Jan joined the team for Summer 2005 internship and worked on mCommunicator, a system for flexible cross platform communication.

 

Dunja Mladenic

Dunja Mladenic works at the Department of Intelligent Systems of the J. Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia. Most of her research work is in machine learning techniques and applications. Dunja has collaborated with the team on a number of joint research projects in text data mining.

 

Marko Grobelnik

Marko Grobelnik works at the Department of Intelligent Systems of the J. Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia. His current research focuses on data mining with particular interest in learning from text, applied on large data sets.

 

Janez Brank

Janez was an intern with the team from Sep 2004 until Dec 2004. He worked on text categorization and feature selection and participated in a number of joint projects that the team had with Jozef Stefan Institue. Janez is a graduate student of computer science at the University of Ljubljana and he works as a researcher at the Jozef Stefan Institute. His main interest is in data mining on textual data.

 

Jure Leskovec

Jure was an intern with the team in Summer 2002, when he was a graduate student at Carnegie Mellon University. He worked on an initial WebScout prototype. Jure also collaborated with the team on document summarization using deep NLP techniques and semantic graph analysis.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 


 


 

 

 

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