Professor Mark Sanderson
Details
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College: STEM Research & Innovation
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Department: Research & Innovation
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Campus: City Campus Australia
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mark.sanderson@rmit.edu.au
Open to
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision
- Collaborative projects
- Media enquiries
About
Mark Sanderson is Professor of Information Retrieval at RMIT University where he is Dean of Research for the STEM College. Mark received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Glasgow, United Kingdom, in 1997. Mark was the first researcher show the value of snippets, a component of search interfaces which are now a standard feature of all search engines. While a faculty member at the Sheffield Information School, Mark co-founded, in 2003, the annual imageCLEF evaluation campaign, which continues to run today. The event has created over 60 research evaluation tasks for the image retrieval and image processing community involving over 500 international research groups. Mark was general chair of ACM SIGIR in 2004 and PC chair of ACM SIGIR 2009 & 2012; and ACM CIKM 2017. Mark was inducted into the ACM SIGIR Academy in 2024.
Research fields
- 460508 Information retrieval and web search
- 461003 Human information interaction and retrieval
Supervisor projects
- Where do queries come from? An eyetracker study of how users are influenced to search
- 13 Aug 2024
- Fairness-Aware and Privacy-Preserving Recommender System
- 25 Jul 2022
- How Users Judge the Credibility of Answers Shown in Community Question Answering Services
- 26 Apr 2022
- Global Fairness or Local Fairness
- 18 Jan 2022
- Systems for Automated Decision-Making
- 9 Nov 2021
- Complex Answer Retrieval
- 2 Sep 2021
- User-centered Answer Retrieval
- 11 Sep 2020
- Beyond Accuracy: Understanding and Modeling the Role of User Conformity in Recommender Systems
- 6 Mar 2020
- Multi-Document Non-Factoid Question Answering
- 27 Aug 2019
- Evaluating Engaging Clarification Questions in Information Retrieval
- 26 Jun 2019
- False-Positive Metrics for Recommender Systems Offline Evaluation
- 3 Sep 2018
- Capturing and Leveraging Collective Behavior for Large-scale Social Networks Analysis
- 1 Aug 2017
- Influence of Geographic Biases on Geolocation Prediction in Twitter
- 17 Aug 2015
- Spoken Conversational Search: Audio-only Interactive Information Retrieval
- 2 Mar 2015
- Search Behavior and Relevance Judgments in Different Search Environments
- 27 Jul 2014
- Answer-biased Summarization
- 21 Jul 2014
- Transfer learning for information retrieval
- 21 Jul 2014
- Journalists' Information Seeking and Behaviour on Social Media
- 21 Jul 2014
- Impact of Location on Social Media Credibility
- 3 Mar 2014
- Information Credibility Perception on Twitter
- 4 Mar 2013
- Collaborative Search for Places of Interest
- 13 Oct 2011
- Improving single document summarization in a multi-document environment
- 18 Jul 2011
Teaching interests
Mark teaches a lecture on the history of usability in the course Usability Engineering. In the past, Mark has taught courses on information retrieval and user centered design.
Research interests
Information Retrieval, Recommender Systems, Information Access
