Sean Macavaney
Senior Lectorer (Associate Professor)
Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSean Macavaney is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Glasgow specializing in information retrieval and natural language processing, with 11 years of experience bridging academic research and applied software development. He earned his PhD at Georgetown under Nazli Goharian and Ophir Frieder, contributed to the IR Lab as an ARCS Endowed Scholar, and has research-internship experience at AI2, MPI-INF, Adobe and CNR. At the University of Glasgow he progressed from research associate to lecturer in machine learning and now senior lecturer, maintaining a strong emphasis on translating IR/NLP research into practical systems informed by earlier industry work as a software developer. He combines rigorous academic publication experience with hands-on engineering instincts—often focusing on problems that sit at the intersection of retrieval, language understanding, and deployable tooling.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science at Georgetown UniversityBachelor’s Degree Software Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Software Engineering at Milwaukee School of Engineering
English
Github Skills (98)
inverted-index10
datasets10
pisa10
backend10
nosql10
solr10
lucene10
search-engine10
retrieval10
information-retrieval10
java10
ranking10
science9
python9
elasticsearch9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
terrierteam/ir_measures
Apr 2021 - Dec 2022
provides a common interface to many IR measure tools
Contributions:6 releases, 2 reviews, 138 commits in 1 year 8 months
measure
Georgetown-IR-Lab/OpenNIR
Feb 2020 - Nov 2021
An end-to-end neural ad-hoc ranking pipeline.
Contributions:5 reviews, 77 commits, 27 PRs in 1 year 9 months
end-to-endpipelinedeep-learningmachine-learningranking
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