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Personal Statement
I am an Associate Professor in Artifical Intelligence and Data Science within the Departement of Computer and Information Sciences at the University of Strathclyde, where I lead the Interaction Lab (i-lab). My group specializes on developing, evaluating and modelling information rich and information intensive applications and agents -- and thus we develop novel Recommender Systems and Information Retrieval Systems underpinned by Natural Language Processing, Language Modelling, Machine Learning and Deep Learning.
Given such technology, my group focuses on understanding and modelling how information systems shape and influence people and society. Thus, at the heart of our research is the focus on modelling and predicting the interaction between people and systems. Current and recent research projects include:
- 4 Year EU funded project on Domain Specific Search and Information Extraction and Retrieval (DoSSIER) for Information Professionals, with projects inc:
- Building economic models of information-interactions
- Modelling and measuring the cognitive costs of interaction
- Developing exploratory search interfaces for professional search
- Deep neural models for contextual search
- 3 Year EPSRC funded project on Cumulative Revelations of Personal Data
- 4 Year EPSRC iCase project with BAE on Optimising Information Intensive Interfaces in High Pressured Situations
- 4 year industry project with Thales on Agent Reliability on Trust and Performance in Human-Agent Collaboration
- 4 year project on Analyzing the relationship between Bias and Performance in neural and language models2.5 year Knowledge Exchange Project with BIP Solutions on applying machine learning to procurement search
- Modelling and measuring search engine result pages with economic theory (in collaboration with Microsoft)
- Developing and evaluating interactive conversational search agentd (with Capita)
- Developing continous active learning agents for systematic search
In addition to teaching Deep Learning, I also teach Startup Engineering, where I have written Tango with Django, which is a beginner's guide to web application development using Python and the Django web application framework.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Education/Academic qualification
Doctor of Science, Contextual Language Models for Information Retrieval, University of Paisley
1 Jan 2002 → 24 Dec 2005
Award Date: 5 Jul 2006
External positions
Honorary Lecturer, University of Glasgow
1 Jan 2017 → …
Adjunct. Associate Professor, Queensland University of Technology
1 Oct 2016 → …
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Participatory Harm Auditing Workbenches and Methodologies (PHAWM)
Moshfeghi, Y. (Principal Investigator), Azzopardi, L. (Co-investigator) & Ruthven, I. (Co-investigator)
EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council)
1/05/24 → 31/01/28
Project: Research
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Using Chatbot Technology To Assure Quality Knowledge Capture From Space
Vasile, M. (Principal Investigator), Azzopardi, L. (Co-investigator), Minisci, E. (Co-investigator) & Moshfeghi, Y. (Co-investigator)
1/09/20 → 31/03/24
Project: Research - Studentship
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Data-driven evaluation metrics for heterogeneous search engine result pages
Azzopardi, L., White, R. W., Thomas, P. & Craswell, N., 14 Mar 2020, CHIIR 2020 - Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval. New York, p. 213–222 10 p. (CHIIR 2020 - Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution book
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Measuring the utility of search engine result pages: an information foraging based measure
Azzopardi, L., Thomas, P. & Craswell, N., 8 Jul 2018, p. 605-614. 10 p.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review
Open AccessFile74 Citations (Scopus)143 Downloads (Pure)
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Data for: "Predicting Perceptual Speed from Search Behaviour"
Foulds, O. (Creator), Suglia, A. (Contributor), Halvey, M. (Supervisor) & Azzopardi, L. (Supervisor), University of Strathclyde, 4 Jun 2020
DOI: 10.15129/d6acf3d1-d64c-4cdd-9b41-e7edb5709f37, https://github.com/okliviaf/PredictingPS
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Data for: "Investigating the Influence of Ads on User Search Performance, Behaviour, and Experience during Information Seeking"
Foulds, O. (Creator), Halvey, M. (Supervisor) & Azzopardi, L. (Supervisor), University of Strathclyde, 11 May 2021
DOI: 10.15129/33f7ebd2-0ea1-4244-9233-070fa35c4746
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Prizes
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ACM ICTIR 2021 Best Paper
Azzopardi, L. (Recipient), Mackenzie, J. (Recipient) & Moffat, A. (Recipient), 11 Jul 2021
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR) Best Paper Award
Azzopardi, L. (Recipient) & van der Sluis, F. (Recipient), 10 Mar 2024
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Activities
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Engage with Strathclyde: Joining the Dots: Personal Data Security of FinTech Employees
Nicol, E. (Speaker), Moncur, W. (Chair), Azzopardi, L. (Speaker), Schafer, B. (Speaker), Carey, D. (Speaker), Briggs, J. (Speaker) & Htait, A. (Speaker)
25 May 2021Activity: Public Engagement and Outreach › Public Events