Jill Freyne

Senior Research Scientist ICT

Contact

GPO Box 76,
Epping
NSW, 1710

Tel: 61 2 9372 4453
Email

Science Area

• Human Computer Interaction

Biography

Jill Freyne is a Research Scientist and Project Leader at the CSIRO, Information Engineering Laboratory. Jill received her PhD from University College Dublin, where her research focused on collaborative, community based web search. Jill continued her research into personalization and recommender technology as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Clarity Center for Sensor Web technologies and IBM Research in Cambridge, MA where she worked primarily on influence in social networking. Since her commencement in the Tailored Lifestyle Information project at CSIRO. Jill’s research has focused on recommender and persuasive technologies to impact attitude and behaviour in the health domain. Jill is the author of over 50 publications published in top quality journals and conferences. Jill has organized a national conference, and served on the organising committees of IUI, Hypertext and Recommender Systems conferences, and run several workshops on Recommender System and Social Media. Jill serves as a senior PC member of IJCAI and has reviewed for many journals and international conferences. Jill has taught courses on information retrieval, recommender systems and social media.

Academic Qualifications

2006	PhD University College Dublin, Computer Science
2002	BSc(hons) University College Dublin, Computer Science

Recent Professional Experience

2006-2009	Postdoctoral Researcher, CLARITY: Center for Sensor Web Technologies, University College Dublin, Ireland.
2008-2009	Visiting Research Scientist, IBM Research, Cambridge, USA.
2008	Visiting Researcher, University of Pittsburgh, USA.

Achievements & Awards

2008	Best Paper Award, International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems
2011	Tasmania iAward for eHealth
2011	Tasmanian iAward for Media and Entertainment

Summary of Science & Technical Output

Student Supervision

2009	G. Verdouw, Vacation Student, CSIRO
2008	A. Brennan, Undergraduate Project
2008	S. Bateman, Vacation Student IBM
2007	D. Doherty, Masters Student
2007	E. Varga, Vacation Student

Science Citizenship

2011	Senior PC Member, IJCAI 2011
2011	Reviewer, ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology
2010	Reviewer, World Wide Web Journal
2010	Publicity Chair, International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces
2007-present	Reviewer, International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces
2010	Co-Chair, Workshop on Recommenders and the Social Web
2010	Reviewer, CHI 2010
2010	Reviewer, World Wide Web Conference 2010
2009	Co-Chair, Workshop on Recommenders and the Social Web
2009	Chair, 20th Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science, Dublin
2009	PC Member, WWW 2009
2009	Reviewer, Data & Knowledge Engineering (DKE) Journal
2008	Reviewer, Transactions on the Web
2008	PC Member, ACM Conference on Recommender Systems
2008	PC Member, International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems
2008	Workshop Chair, Adaptation for the Social Web held in conjunction with the International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems
2007	PC Member, Cybernetic Systems 2007
2007	PC Member, International Conference on Internet Technologies & Applications 2007
2007	PC Member, Workshop on the Social Navigation & Community-Based Adaptation Technologies 2006
2007	Reviewer, International Conference on User Modeling 2007
2007	Reviewer, ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia 2007
2007	Reviewer, 10th DELOS Thematic Workshop on Personalized Access, Profile Management, and Context Awareness in Digital Libraries 2007

Number of citations

Links

• List of publications
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