Tom Rowlands
Software Engineer
Contact
Building 108, North Road, ANU Campus
Tel: 61 2 6216 7089
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Biography
Tom was previously involved in solar vehicle racing, from 1996 to 2005, and with a car that employed a CSIRO-developed high-efficiency electric motor. Tom has been working in the CSIRO since 2004 and until 2005 was a member of the since commercialised Funnelback team. Tom has recently commenced a PhD at the Australian National University in information retrieval and maintains a personal interest in human-computer interaction.
Academic Qualifications
| 2002 |
BSEng (Hons) Australian National University, Software Engineering |
Recent Professional Experience
| 2004-present |
Software Engineer, CSIRO
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| 2003-2004 |
Consultant, ConSolve
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| 2000-2001 |
Australian Imagery Organisation, Defence Imagery and Geospatial Organisation
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| 1998-2004 |
Software Engineer and Support, Lake Tuggeranong College |
Achievements & Awards
| 2002 |
ANU Honours Scholarship
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| 2001 |
Spirit of Canberra, Seventh Place, World Solar Challenge
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| 1999 |
Spirit of Canberra, Seventh Place, World Solar Challenge |
Other Highlights
| 2005 |
My Instant Expert proposal selected as the winner of the Director's Challenge from CSIRO ICT Centre Conference 2005 |
Summary of Science & Technical Output
| Books/Book chapters |
0 |
| Journal |
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| Refereed Conference/Workshop |
4 |
| Technical/Client Reports |
2 |
| Invited Presentations |
0 |
| Patents |
0 |
Top 10 Publications
| Publication details |
| D. Hawking, T. Rowlands & M. Adcock, "Improving rankings in small-scale web search using click-implied descriptions", Proceedings of ADCS 2006, pp.17–24, Dec. 2006. |
| P. Thomas and T. Rowlands, "Estimating the value of automatic disambiguation", Proceedings of ACM SIGIR 2007. Amsterdam, Netherlands, pp. 719–720. |
| T. Rowlands, D. Hawking and R. Sankaranarayana, "Workload sampling for enterprise search evaluation", Proceedings of ACM SIGIR 2007. Amsterdam, Netherlands, pp. 887–888. |
| T. Rowlands, D. Hawking and R. Sankaranarayana, "Anonymous folksonomies for small enterprise webs: a case study", Proceedings of ADCS 2008 |
| D. Hawking, T. Rowlands and P. Thomas, "C-TEST: Supporting novelty and diversity in testfiles for search evaluation", Proceedings of the SIGIR workshop on redundancy, diversity and interdependent document relevance, 2009 |
| D. Hawking, P. Thomas, T. Gedeon, T. Jones and T. Rowlands, "New methods for creating testfiles: Tuning enterprise search with C-TEST", Proceedings of the SIGIR workshop on the Future of IR Evaluation, 2009 |
Number of citations
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0 |
| Citeseer |
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| Google Scholar |
7 |
