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I am a Professor in the School of Computing Science at the University of Glasgow, leading a robust 60-member Information and Data Analysis Section, which includes researchers specializing in information retrieval, machine learning, data systems, and computer vision. I head the Terrier Team, which is dedicated to the development and evaluation of novel large-scale text information retrieval techniques and their applications. As an Associate Editor for the ACM Transactions on Information Systems, I have published over 200 papers in general areas including information retrieval and recommender systems within big data systems. I have supervised many PhD students and postdoctoral research assistants over the years. I am also the principal investigator of the renowned high-performance scalable Terrier search engine, which has an open-source version widely utilized in both academia and industry across the globe. In addition, I have led international research initiatives, such as the Blog & Microblog tracks for TREC in the USA and the NTCIR Math Initiative in Japan, funded by UKRI/EU projects. My involvement extends to being on program committees for major information retrieval conferences and serving on the editorial boards of Information Processing & Management and ACM Transactions on Information Systems journals. I have also served as Deputy Director/Director of Knowledge Exchange for the Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance and have been actively involved in various initiatives like The Data Lab Innovation Centre. Prior to my appointment at the University of Glasgow in 1999, I worked as a research fellow at the National University of Singapore and as a postdoctoral researcher at CLIPS-IMAG in France. I hold a PhD in Computer Science from the University Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France, and an MSc in Computer Science & AI from ENSIMAG, the National Polytechnic Institute of Grenoble.