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2020- Scientific Programmer, University of Amsterdam

2018-    Research Fellow, Sussex Humanities Lab, University of Sussex

2015-18  Application scientist, Centre for Big Data Analysis

2012-18  Group leader, Language and Language Technology Group

2010-18  Senior researcher , Uni Research Computing, Bergen

2008-09  Research Fellow, School of Computing, Dublin City University

2006-09  Independent researcher; part of Jigsee start-up.

2000-06  Lecturer, Dept. of Computing, University of Surrey

1997-99  Full-time PhD student, Dept. of Computing, University of Surrey

1994-97  Researcher, Dept. of Computing, University of Surrey

1993-94  MSc Neural Computation, University of Stirling (EPSRC scholarship)

1989-93  MA Linguistics, University of Edinburgh 

Summary of Experience

• 20 years developing and using corpus analysis techniques in interdisciplinary research projects to improve access to digital media archives and to develop new modes of humanistic and social science inquiry.

• Authored and co-authored 42 refereed papers (mainly international conferences) and book chapters in corpus linguistics, narratology, multimodal semiotics, audiovisual translation and informatics (natural language processing, multimedia computing, artificial intelligence).

• Given 28 keynote lectures, talks and invited seminars in United Kingdom, Spain, USA, Canada, Australia, Mexico and Japan.

• Formed national and international research collaborations across diverse academic disciplines, and have collaborated with the BBC, Tate Gallery, Philips and Banff New Media Institute.

• Led research groups. Had management responsibilities – including being PI and Co-I – on nine EPSRC, EU and NFR projects.

• Supervised three PhD students to completion, with one in progress; external examiner for four PhDs.

• Strong software development skills, especially in Java, Python and Perl.

• Reviewer for journals and conferences in computing (IEEE, AAAI, ACM), semiotics and audiovisual translation. Project reviewer for Canadian Foundation for Innovation and UK’s EPSRC.

• Developed and delivered five undergraduate and postgraduate modules on multimedia information retrieval, systems analysis and design, and digital libraries.

• Carried out senior administrative roles: Director of Admissions, Director of Postgraduate Research, Chair of Undergraduate Board of Studies, Professional Training Year Officer.