Our team

People

ielab's core group is based at The University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, with members and collaborators at CSIRO, the University of Strathclyde, and research labs around the world.

Research Staff

Bevan Koopman

Bevan Koopman

Associate Professor, UQ, and Research Scientist, CSIRO.
Guido Zuccon

Guido Zuccon

Professor, UQ.
Hang Li

Hang Li

Postdoc, UQ, Relevance Feedback, IR, LLMs.
Joel Mackenzie

Joel Mackenzie

Lecturer, UQ.
Monica Noselli

Monica Noselli

Research Assistant with interest in Visual Data Analytics
Shuai Wang

Shuai Wang

Research Fellow, UQ, Domain-specific Search, Information Retrieval, and NLP.
Teerapong Leelanupab (Kim)

Teerapong Leelanupab (Kim)

Senior Research Fellow, School of EECS, UQ.

PhD & MPhil Students

Chuting (Veronica) Yu

Chuting (Veronica) Yu

PhD Student, UQ.
Haodong Chen

Haodong Chen

PhD student, UQ, RAG, Agentic Search.
Ismail Sabei

Ismail Sabei

PhD student, UQ, Searching through Conversations.
Jonathan J Ross

Jonathan J Ross

LLM Hallucinations and knowledge conflicts.
Sebastian Cross

Sebastian Cross

PhD student, UQ, Medical Chatbots.
Sitthichoke Subpaiboonkit

Sitthichoke Subpaiboonkit

PhD student, University of Queensland (UQ) & Chiang Mai University (CMU), Causality Discovery in drug-drug interaction.
Xinyu Mao

Xinyu Mao

PhD student, UQ, Automation for Systematic Review Screening.
Yongjie Zhou

Yongjie Zhou

PhD student, UQ.
Yu Yin

Yu Yin

PhD student, UQ.

External Members

Joao Palotti

Joao Palotti

Research Associate, Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI)
Leif Azzopardi

Leif Azzopardi

Principal Applied Scientist, Microsoft, and Associate Professor and Chancellor's Fellow, University of Strathclyde (UK).
Xueguang Ma

Xueguang Ma

PhD Student, University of Waterloo, Canada

Alumni

Ahmed Mourad

Ahmed Mourad

Postdoctoral Research Fellow at UQ from 2021 to 2023
Anton van der Vegt

Anton van der Vegt

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, UQ. Graduated from UQ (sponsored by CSIRO); Thesis -- Minimal interaction Information Retrieval - a theoretical framework with applications in clinical decision support.
Bing Liu

Bing Liu

PhD student, UQ, 2019-2023. His research interests lie in Knowledge Fusion, Entity Alignment, Knowledge Graph and Large Language Models.
Daniel Locke

Daniel Locke

PhD student, UQ, 2018-2022
Ekaterina Khramtsova

Ekaterina Khramtsova

PhD student (2020 - 2024), UQ. Medical Image Analysis
Ferdinand Schlatt

Ferdinand Schlatt

Visiting PhD Student at UQ, from Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena.
Harry Scells

Harry Scells

Assistant Professor at the University of Tübingen. Previously a Postdoctoral Research Fellow, UQ. Graduated from UQ (sponsored by CSIRO).
Jimmy

Jimmy

PhD student, UQ & UBAYA, Search Engines that Help People Make Better Health Decisions.
Linh Le

Linh Le

PhD student (2020 - 2024), UQ, Active Learning, Deep Learning, Machine Learning, NLP, CV, Multimodal.
Maik Fröbe

Maik Fröbe

Visiting PhD Student at UQ, from Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena.
Rischan Mafrur

Rischan Mafrur

Graduated from UQ; Thesis -- Recommending data visualizations- tackling diversification and data quality challenges.
Shengyao Zhuang

Shengyao Zhuang

PhD student (2019 - 2023), UQ, BERT and Large Language Model-based Rankers and Online Learning to Rank,
Shuoqi Sun (Thomas)

Shuoqi Sun (Thomas)

Master student (intern) at ielab, UQ.
Shuyi Wang

Shuyi Wang

Postdoctoral Research Fellow and PhD graduate, UQ.
Sophia Althammer

Sophia Althammer

Visiting PhD student, TU Vienna.
Suresh Pokaharel

Suresh Pokaharel

PhD student, UQ, Electronic Health Records Representation for Similarity Computing.
Wojciech Kusa

Wojciech Kusa

Visiting PhD Student at UQ, from TU Wien; now Senior Research Engineer at Allegro ML Research.
Zheng Yao

Zheng Yao

Bachelor Student (intern) at ielab, UQ

Past Honours Students

  • [completed 2017] Liam Cripwell. Honours student, QUT: Generating Clinical Queries from Patient Narratives
  • [completed 2016] Harrisen Scells. Honours student, QUT: Investigating Methods Of Annotating Lifelogs For Use In Search

Past Masters Students

[completed 2017]:

  • Doyoo Baek: A predictive analysis of heavy machinery deterioration (Industrial CEED collaboration with Hastings Deering Pty Ltd)
  • Xiaoran Chu: OMG! The Amazing Result of Using Machine Learning to Build Classifiers for Clickbait Detection
  • Linni Qin: Forecasting Zestimate Error
  • Zhiying Zhou: Educational Data Mining: Analyze and Predict student's academic performance
  • Harmandeep Kaur Bhullar: Data Analysis of an European Soccer Database
  • Harshita Jain: An Analysis of Spam SMS Features
  • Davinder Kaur: Symptoms of Lower Back Pain — A Data Analysis and Research Project

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