oak@dcs.shef.ac.uk

OAK Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield

People

There are currently 17 group members. To them, we should add Daniela Petrelli, who works with our group on many projects, including X-Media and IPAS.



Academics

Fabio Ciravegna

Professor of Language and Knowledge Technologies

Group coordinator and main point of contact.
Director of Research and Innovation in the Digital World, The University of Sheffield
Director of the X-Media Project
Director of K-Now Ltd




Senior Research Scientists

Victoria Uren

Senior Research Fellow

Researcher in the use of structured information, particularly ontologies, in knowledge management.




Research Associates and Assistants

Gregoire Burel

Research Assistant

Research on personal and collective inteligence

Aba-Sah Dadzie

Aba-Sah Dadzie

Research Associate

Researcher on Visualisation of Large Scale Knowledge Bases

Neil Ireson

Research Associate

Researcher on Information Extraction from Text

Vitaveska Lanfranchi

Research Associate

Researcher on Human Computer Interaction, coordinator of the application area

Matthew Rowe

Research Associate

Researching Information Extraction for the Semantic Web

Simon Tucker

Research Associate

Researcher in Human Computer Interaction, Temporary work package manager for WeKnowIt project.

Philip Webster

Research Assistant

Researcher in semantically-enhanced workflows for smart products.

Stuart Wrigley

Research Associate

Researcher on formal evaluation of semantic web technologies

Ziqi Zhang

Research Associate

Research on Ontology Learning from Text




Ph.D. Students

Jonathan Butters

Ph.D. Student

Research on Information extraction and knowledge management in the Aerospace domain

Rodrigo Carvalho

Ph.D. Student

Researcher on Management of Personal Photographs

Elizabeth Amparo Cano Basave

Ph.D. Student

Researching Augmented Reality

Khadija Elbedweihy

Ph.D. Student

Researching evaluation of Semantic Search tools and technologies

Suvodeep Mazumdar

Ph.D. Student

Researching Human Computer Interaction and Visulisation




Administration Staff

Laura Smith

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Project Administration Coordinator




Collaborators and External Ph.D. Students

Ajay Chakravarthy

Ajay Chakravarthy

Currently Research Engineer at IT Innovation Centre, Southampton

Sam Chapman

Managing Director of K-Now Ltd

Jose Iria

Researcher at IBM, Zurich

Lei Xia

Researcher at the University of York

Alfonso Sosa

Researcher at the K-Now

Ravish Bhagdev

Researcher at the K-Now




Past Members

Christopher Brewster

Christopher Brewster

Currently lecturer at Aston Business School, University of Aston

Alexiei Dingli

Alexiei Dingli

Claire Harrison

Joao Magalhaes

Joao Magalhaes

Mark Greenwood

Mark Greenwood

Currently in another subgroup of the NLP group in Sheffield

Barry Norton

Barry Norton

Currently at STI Innsbruck

Qi He

Qi He

Phil Moore

Phil Moore

Yanan Sun

Yanan Sun

Wim Peters

Currently in another subgroup of the NLP group in Sheffield

Sarah Duffy

Research Secretary

George Demetriou

Research Associate

Researcher on Natural Language Processing