Welcome to my personal web page.
I work as a lead data scientist at a London-based company called Signal AI. In particular, I lead a team of data scientists and data engineers to reserach and develop text analytics services for a large-scale business intelligence platform. The platform supports reputation management, media coverage reporting, content marketing and other use cases.
Full a short career history, consult my bio page
For an up-to-date list of my publications, you can also consult my profile on Google's scholar or DBLP
Research Interests
I specialise in Information Retrieval (IR) in general. Here is a list of the topics I have worked/am working on:
- News Information Retrieval
- Entity Linking and Entity-based Retrieval
- Large Scale Crowdsourcing
- Information Access in Smart Cities
- Social Media Retrieval and Sensor data retrieval
- Context-aware Query Suggestions
- Enterprise Email Search
Professional Memberships
I am an elected member of the committee of the Information Retrieval Specialist Group within the British Computer Society in the United Kingdom.
Peer Reviewer
- SIGIR 2020 (Programme Committee)
- ECIR 2020 (Programme Committee)
- SIGIR 2019 (Programme Committee)
- ECIR 2019 (Programme Committee)
- SIGIR 2018 (Programme Committee)
- ECIR 2018 (Programme Committee)
- CIKM 2017 (Programme Committee - Demos)
- SIGIR 2017 (Programme Committee)
- ECIR 2017 (Programme Committee/Demo Chair)
- CIKM 2016 (Programme Committee)
- SIGIR 2016 (Programme Committee)
- ECIR 2016 (Programme Committee)
- CIKM 2015 (Programme Committee- Information Retrieval track)
- SIGIR 2015 (Programme Committee - short papers track)
- ECIR 2015 (Programme Committee)
- SIGIR 2014 (Programme Committee - short papers track)
- ECIR 2014 (Programme Committee)
- BARS 2013 SIGIR'13 workshop on benchmarking adaptive retrieval and recommender systems: (Programme Committee)
- SIGIR 2013 (Programme Committee - short papers track)
- ECIR 2013 (Programme Committee)
- TF 2012, The 1st International Workshop on Tourism Facilities 2012 (Programme Committee)
- SIR 2012, Information Retrieval over Query Sessions Workshop at ECIR 2012. (Programme Committee)
- ECIR 2011 (Programme Committee)
- CIKM 2011 (Programme Committee - demo papers track).
- New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia
- The ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
- The BCS Computer Journal
Conference Organisation
- ECIR 2020 Sponsorship chair
- London Text Analytics Meetup
- The NewsIR workshop @ ECIR (Co-orgainser) (2016 and 2018) and The NewsIR workshop @ SIGIR (2019)
- ECIR 2017 Demo track (Chair)
- The i-ASC 2014 workshop (infomration access in smart citites), in conjunction with ECIR 2014. (Co-organiser)
- Search Solutions 2012-2019 (Co-organiser)
