About Me
Womin djeka! This is my personal—not an official RMIT—website. I’m a Senior Lecturer and DECRA Fellow at RMIT University (School of Computing Technologies), deputy director of the Research Centre for Information Discovery and Data Analytics (CIDDA), an Associate Investigator at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society, and a research collaborator of RMIT FactLab.
My main research interests are Information Retrieval (IR), Text Analytics, and Data Science. I currently work on evaluation of information access systems and interactive information retrieval.
In my free time, I teach Capoeira at the Associação de Capoeira Descendente do Pantera (ACDP) –where I am also known as Contramestre Camaleão– and play samba with Wombatuque.
- Information Retrieval
- Text Analytics
- Data Science
PhD in Computer Science, 2014
UNED (Madrid, Spain)
Affiliations
Senior Lecturer, School of Computing Technologies
DECRA Fellow, Centre for Information Discovery and Data Analytics
Associate Investigator, Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision Making and Society
Publications
Supervision
Scholarship Opportunities
PhD Scholarship in Automated Decision-Making and Information Retrieval
Opportunity to join the Centre of Excellence on Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S) work on developing new approaches to fairness, actionable explainability or socially considerate evaluation of Automated Decision-Making in search, conversational, recommender, or other information access systems.
Current PhD Students
- Co-supervision of PhD student Kaixin Ji, working on Measuring and Quantifying Bias and Engagement in Interactive Information Access (together with Flora D. Salim, Falk Scholer, and Danula Hettiachchi).
- Co-supervision of PhD student Rahmad Mahendra, working on Semantic Matching for Clinical Trial Retrieval (together with Karin Verspoor and Lawrence Cavedon).
- Co-supervision of PhD candidate Sachin Pathiyan Cherumanal, working on Fairness-Aware Question Answering for Intelligent Assistants (together with Falk Scholer and W. Bruce Croft).
- Co-supervision of PhD candidate Manuel Steiner, working on Influences of Backstories on Queries with Multiple Intents in Task-Based Specialized Information Retrieval (together with Lawrence Cavedon and Falk Scholer).
Former PhD Students
Dr. Ameer Albahem, Evaluating Dynamic Search Systems for Interactive Complex Tasks (co-supervised with Lawrence Cavedon and Falk Scholer).
Dr. Johanne R. Trippas, Spoken conversational search: audio-only interactive information retrieval (co-supervised with Lawrence Cavedon and Mark Sanderson).
Former Master and Honours Students
- Reham Abdullah Altalhi, Search Results Fairness based on Analytical Hierarchy Process, RMIT University, 2022.
- Binh Chon Nut Le, Investigating Algorithmic Bias via Crowdsourcing, RMIT University, 2020. [Paper]
- Xinhuan Duan, Two-Step Classification for Profiling Fake News Spreaders on Twitter, RMIT University, 2020. [Paper]
- Shubhdeep Singh, Spoken DialogWOZ : A Tool to PerformWizard of Oz Experiments in Speech-Only Question Answering Scenarios, RMIT University, 2020.
- Assunta Cerone, Watch ’n’ Check: Towards a Social Media Monitoring Tool to Assist Fact-Checking Experts, Politecnico di Torino, 2020. [Paper]
- Mazhar Morshed, Missing Attribute Imputation through Clustering in New Item Cold Start Job Recommendation, RMIT University, 2017.
- Phanomsinh Homsombath, Applying Phonetic Matching to Spoken Document Retrieval, RMIT University, 2015.
