2019 Tony Kent Strix Memorial Award Winner

Professor Ingemar J. Cox

Abstract

In 2019, the UK electronic information Group (UKeiG), in partnership with the International Society for Knowledge Organisation UK (ISKO UK), the Royal Society of Chemistry Chemical Information and Computer Applications Group (RSC CICAG) and the British Computer Society Information Retrieval Specialist Group (BCS IRSG), was delighted to announce that the winner of the prestigious Tony Kent Strix Memorial Award for 2019, in recognition of his major and sustained contributions to the field of information retrieval, was Professor Ingemar J. Cox, Department of Computer Science at University College London.

Professor Cox is Head of UCL’s Media Futures Research Group and a Professor at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Copenhagen. His current research interests include information retrieval and data analytics of online social media, twitter and query logs.