Robert Villa Email & Phone Number

Services Operations Manager of Geoservices products (Digimap and Digimap for Schools).

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Working as developer on Digimap (http://digimap.edina.ac.uk). This involves both front and back end development with Java (Spring Boot), Javascript (ExtJS) and very recent work with Angular2 and associated technologies (TypeScript, RxJS, etc.)

Sheffield, United Kingdom

Lecturer at the Information School, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Sheffield. Member of the Information Retrieval research group and one of the local organisers of the CLEF 2014 conference (Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum) held at Sheffield. Coordinator of the department's joint programmes with the Management School, and taught on various modules including Information Retrieval, Designing usable websites, Human computer interaction and Digital multimedia libraries. Involved with two successful grant proposals: Primary Investigator along with Dr Martin Halvey for the AHRC funded “Understanding the annotation process: annotation for big data” project (Jan 2014 - June 2015, funded value of £80,766) and co-investigator in the project “Health information professionals, their roles, and contributions to healthcare” funded by EAHIL (European Association for Health Information and Libraries, funded value of €20,000).

Glasgow, United Kingdom

Researcher on the EU funded project "SALERO", which involved researching ways in which text, image and video retrieval systems can better support user tasks, particularly complex, exploratory, information seeking tasks. This involved the design of various end-user search interfaces and the evaluation of these interfaces through lab-based user studies

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Information Retrieval / Computer Science

Master’S Degree, Human Computer Interaction

Bachelor’S Degree, Information Engineering (Computing Science And Electronics)