Senior Scientist
Allan obtained his PhD in Mathematical Morphology from the Paris School of Mines, France, and his habilitation in Practical Informatics from the Vienna University of Technology, Austria. His research interests include information retrieval, multi-modal information retrieval, and the evaluation of information retrieval results. Read more
Post-doctoral Research Fellow
Mihai obtained his PhD degree under the Singapore-MIT Alliance at the National University of Singapore, where he researched data retrieval in peer-to-peer networks. Now, his research interests continue in the area of information retrieval, with emphasis on patent retrieval and chemical structure retrieval.
Post-doctoral Research Fellow
Veronika obtained her PhD at the Vienna University of Technology, where she focused on Business Intelligence and Conceptual Modeling. Later she worked on projects in Professional Information Retrieval, High Performance Computing, Statistical Machine Translation, Semantic Technologies, Visual Workflows, and Model-Driven Development at an Austrian service provider in the patent and intellectual property domain. Read more
Post-doctoral Research Fellow
Florina obtained her PhD at the Research Institute for Symbolic Computation, J.Kepler University, Linz. Her research interests are in retrieval of formal content with focus on Mathematical Knowledge Management.
Post-doctoral Research Fellow
Matthias obtained his doctorate from the University of Vienna and the Medical University of Vienna. He has a background in biomedical informatics. The aim of his work is the use of novel web technologies, ontologies, large-scale data integration and information retrieval techniques to speed up progress in pharmaceutical R&D and medical practice. He worked for the Yale Center for Medical Informatics, Science Commons, the Semantic Web Company, the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research and DERI Galway. He is an active member of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Health Care and Life Science Interest Group. Read more
PhD student
Linda obtained her Degree of Master of Arts in Computational Linguistics at Stockholm University, Sweden. The title of her Master Thesis was “A Vector Space analysis of Swedish patent claims, does decompounding help?” The next step for Linda is to write a PhD dissertation at IRF Society in collaboration with the Technical University of Vienna. The topic will be “The essence of Patent Retrieval – A cross-linguistic study”. In her dissertation she will explore an alternative way to capture the concept of a patent by investigating logic or semi logic features of expression in the patent genre. Read more
IRF PhD Fellow
Parvaz received her master degree from Tarbiat Modares University,Tehran, Iran. In her master thesis she worked on evolutionary algorithms inspired from quantum computing principles. Currently she is working on her PhD at the University of Lugano (USI), Switzerland. Her thesis has the working title: Interactive Patent Search supervised by Prof. Fabio Crestani and Dr. Monica Landoni.
IRF Erasmus Mundus Master Studentship
Monica obtained her BA in Computer Science, Computer Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Timisoara (Faculty of Automation and Computer Science) in Romania and started in 2010 with her MA in Data Mining and Knowledge Management at Université Lumière Lyon 2, France and at Università del Piemonte orientale "Amedeo Avogadro" - Alessandria, Italy.