Organized the Fourth Strategic Workshop on Information Retrieval (SWIRL) in 2025, discussing the future of information retrieval research; Awarded the RMIT University Deputy Vice-Chancellor’s Higher Degree by Research Prize for doctoral work and thesis; Appointed as Vice-Chair of the ACM SIGIR Artifact Evaluation Committee (AEC).
Research Experience
Vice-Chancellor’s Senior Research Fellow at the School of Computing Technologies, STEM College, RMIT University; Working with Ambulance Victoria to use AI to efficiently identify cardiac arrest emergency calls; Previously, Doreen Thomas Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne.
Education
Completed a PhD in Computer Science at RMIT University in 2019, supervised by Professor Lawrence Cavedon, Professor Mark Sanderson, and Dr. Damiano Spina.
Background
Research Interests: Intelligent Systems, particularly next-generation capabilities for digital assistants, including spoken conversational search, collection of complex datasets, and task progression through ubiquitous sensing. Specialization: Conversational AI, Information Retrieval, Human-Computer Interaction, and Dialogue Analysis.