Databases and Information Retrieval

About Us

Databases is the study of efficient storage, retrieval, and management of large data, whereas information retrieval is the process of accessing and extracting relevant information from the databases.

    Staff

    Given name Family namePositionProfileEmail
    Farhana ChoudhuryLecturerProfilefarhana.choudhury@unimelb.edu.au
    Alistair MoffatProfessorProfileammoffat@unimelb.edu.au
    Lida RashidiPostdoctoral Fellow and LecturerProfilerashidil@unimelb.edu.au
    Egemen TaninProfessorProfileetanin@unimelb.edu.au
    Justin ZobelZobelRedmond Barry Distinguished Professor and Pro Vice-Chancellor (Graduate & International Research)Profilejzobel@unimelb.edu.au

    Databases and Information Retrieval Graduate Researchers

    Given name Family nameProfile Thesis Title
    Kasun AmarasingheProfileLearning database indexes
    Reyhaneh GoliProfileNew Approaches to Interactive Sessional Search for Complex Tasks
    Abigail Meng YuanProfileModalities and measurement of systems for information discovery

    Projects

    “New Approaches to Interactive Sessional Search for Complex Tasks”, ARC Discovery Project DP190101113, by Alistair Moffat, joint with Falk Scholer (RMIT University) and Shane Culpepper (University of Queensland).