Research Assistant

University of Glasgow, School of Computing Science • January 2012 – November 2014

Experience and knowledge gained:
• Undertaking research in information retrieval, access, and recommendation, and in particular, the modelling and analysis of user behaviour in social contexts
• Development of systems, conceptual frameworks, conducting experiments and user studies, and documenting research results for inclusion in papers (ECIR’13, WWW’13, SIGIR’13, CIKM’13, ICMR’14), reports and presentations at local and international levels.
• Assisting in the supervision and training of undergraduate, postgraduate and PhD students as well as participating in writing grant proposals. Awards:
• Received the Best Paper Award at ECIR’13

Research Intern

Yahoo! Research Lab in Barcelona, Spain • October 2011 – December 2011

Experience and knowledge gained:
• Investigating the effect of time and entity dimension of information space in user engagement and satisfaction in a news retrieval context.
• Conducting task-based user studies, documenting research results for inclusion in a paper (ECIR’13) and presentations at local and international levels.
• Working in an industrial research environment

Education

Ph.D. Computer Science – Information Retrieval

University of Glasgow • 2012

I obtained my PhD Degree in computing science in February 2012 from the School of Computing Science at the University of Glasgow, under the supervision of Prof. Joemon Jose and Prof. Keith van Rijsbergen. The main theme of my doctoral work has been to understand the role of emotion in Information Retrieval.

M.Sc. Computer Science – Information Retrieval

University of Glasgow • 2007

I obtained my MSc Degree with merit in computing science in 2007 from the School of Computing Science at Glasgow University. My MSc project was supervised by Prof. Jose and involved the design, implementation and user-based evaluation of an Intelligent RSS Aggregator. My project was awarded ‘grade A’.