Profile
Dr Ross Wilkinson
Dr Ross Wilkinson obtained his PhD in mathematics at Monash University in 1982. After teaching in the United States and La Trobe University, he joined the Department of Computer Science at RMIT and worked there until 1997, when he joined the Division of Mathematical and Information Sciences at CSIRO as a Principal Research Scientist. In 1998, CSIRO worked with the Victorian governments's Public Records Office to develop the Victorian Electronic Records Strategy (VERS), a framework to reliably and authentically archive electronic documents created in government. Ross was the technical director of this project. From 2000-2004 he was Science and Industry Manager and from 2005-2008 he led the Information Engineering laboratory at CSIRO. During this time Funnelback, the Enterprise Search Company was a spin off from the Information Engineering Laboratory.
His principal research interests are in the area of information environments. Some of his areas of research are document retrieval effectiveness, personal information delivery, structured documents, and the use of XML in document retrieval. He has published over 80 research papers, has served on many program committees and was a program co-chair for both SIGIR'96 and SIGIR'98. In 1998 he co-authored the book entitled Document Computing:Technologies for Managing Electronic Document Collections, published by Kluwer. In the Australian National Data Service his passion is to enable more researchers to reuse research data more often.
Professional Interests
Document computing, text management, information retrieval, document standards, corporate memory, tailored information delivery
Professional Memberships
ACM, ACM-SIGIR
