Involved in important research projects like MS MARCO and TREC Deep Learning Track. Contributions to effective web search, particularly in using links and clicks to enhance the quality of search engine results and neural information retrieval [FNTIR].
Research Experience
Extensive experience with search evaluation datasets including MS MARCO and TREC Deep Learning Track. Interested in making search more interactive, such that the more you say about what you want, the better the results get. Contributed to web search evaluation, built VLC, VLC2, WT2g and .GOV test collections, and coordinated several TREC Web Track experiments.
Education
PhD from the Australian National University, advised by David Hawking. The topic was distributed information retrieval, building a coherent IR system on top of multiple engines.
Background
A researcher at Microsoft in the Microsoft Search, Assistant and Intelligence (MSAI) group. His job title is Architect, which involves helping improve the overall approach for information access (search, recommendation and knowledge mining) in Outlook, Teams and the workplace. Also involved in research and publication, and releasing research datasets. An Australian living in Seattle.
Miscellany
Interest in making search more interactive and improving search effectiveness through representation learning, specifically neural information retrieval.