I'm Stewart Whiting. I'm a second year PhD candidate at the University of Glasgow. I'm in the Information Retrieval (IR) research group in the School of Computing Science.

I research in many areas of IR, particularly in aspects of temporal IR and crowdsourcing for interactive IR evaluation. I have diverse interests including the use of context, particularly in personal collection search.

I am supervised by Professor Joemon Jose. I collaborate on a lot of work with other the other folk in the Glasgow IR Group, including: Guido Zuccon, Kim Leelanupab, Yashar Moshfeghi and Iraklis Klampanos.

Prior to starting a PhD I graduated first class in undergraduate Computing Science combined with Business and Management at Glasgow.

Temporal IR Interests

Temporal IR has many diverse facets. It is widely acknowledge that time is important in retrieval, yet there is still much scope for development in its use. At the moment I am interested particularly in how terms rise and fall in occurrence over time and how this can be incorporated into retrieval techniques.