About Tony Russell-Rose: I am founder of 2Dsearch, a start-up applying artificial intelligence, natural language processing and data visualisation to create the next generation of professional search tools. I am also director of UXLabs, a research and design consultancy specialising in complex search and information access applications.
Previously I was Manager of User Experience at Oracle and editor of the Endeca UI Design Pattern Library, an online resource dedicated to best practice in the design of search and discovery experiences. Prior to this I was technical lead at Reuters, specialising in advanced user interfaces for information access and search. And before Reuters I was R&D manager at Canon Research Centre Europe, where I led a team developing next generation information access products and services. Earlier professional experience includes a Royal Academy of Engineering fellowship at HP Labs working on speech interfaces for mobile devices, and a Short-term Research Fellowship at BT Labs working on intelligent agents for information retrieval.
My academic qualifications include a PhD in artificial intelligence, an MSc in cognitive psychology and a first degree in engineering, majoring in human factors. I have published some 80+ scientific papers on information retrieval, human-computer interaction and natural language processing, and am co-author of “Designing the Search Experience: the Information Architecture of Discovery“, published by Elsevier in 2013.
I have served as vice-chair of the BCS Information Retrieval group and chair of the CIEHF Human-Computer Interaction group. I am Honorary Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Interactive Systems Research, City University, London, and also hold the position of Royal Academy of Engineering Visiting Professor of Cognitive Computing and AI at Essex University.
A somewhat more detailed version of my bio is available at LinkedIn.
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