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Primary contact: Natasa Milic-Frayling
Natasa Milic-Frayling
Natasa Milic-Frayling
"My 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 Kazai
"I joined MSRC in May 2006. My research interests include structured document retrieval, in particular applied to books, and its evaluation. I am an organizer of the new Book Search track at INEX 2007. I also continue working on metrics for the evaluation of XML IR systems. Another project I am involved in is Researchers Desktop Live!, an information management system designed specifically for researchers and scholars."
Eduarda Mendes Rodrigues
Eduarda
Mendes Rodrigues
"My research interests include text mining, link analysis, Web information retrieval and social network analysis. I joined the team in September 2005, after being awarded a 1-year post-doctoral grant by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology. My current research is in Web structure and content mining, mainly involved in the InSite Live! and the Community Buzz projects."
Gavin Smyth
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.
Vishwa Vinay
Vishwa Vinay
"I have just joined the Integrated Systems team as a post-doc after completing my PhD in University College London in the area of text retrieval. The two-year post is funded by Live Labs."
Jamie Costello
Jamie Costello
Jamie is a Software Development Consultant, working on Mobile Applications and Services. He joined the team in July 2004.
Rachel Jones
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).

Former Associates
Martin Hicks
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 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 Pandit
Shashank spent three months as Summer 2005 intern with the Integrated Systems team, working on mining of Web site structure.
Jan Muntermann
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
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
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 Brank
"I am a graduate student of computer science at the University of Ljubljana. I also work as a researcher at the Jozef Stefan Institute in Ljubljana, Slovenia. My main interests is in data mining on textual data; I've done some work in text categorization and feature selection." Participated in a number of joint project that the team had with Jozef Stefan Institue. Joined the team as an intern from Sept 2004 until Dec 2004."
Jure Leskovec
Jure Leskovec
Jure is a graduate student at Carnegie Mellon University. He was an intern with the team in Summer 2002 when 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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