Marie-Claire Jenkins, Ph.D in computer science

Lead XD consultant, Thoughtworks
Sydney, Australia

Research field: Computer and Information Science - Artificial Intelligence
Human factors, user experience design, HCI, Natural Language Generation/Understanding,Machine translation, Information retrieval, NLP, AI

Publications

Conference Proceedings (1)
- Richard Churchill Marie-Claire Jenkins (2007) Analysis of User Interaction with Service Oriented Chatbot Systems. In HCI International.
  http://www.springerlink.com/content/v...
Working Paper (1)
- Dan Smith Marie-Claire Jenkins (2005) Conservative stemming for search and indexing.
  http://fizz.cmp.uea.ac.uk/Research/st...

Awards and Grants

May 2007

New Scientist Essay competition finalist
May 2006

Loebner prize finalist
Sep 2003

PhD scholarship

Biographical Information

Human factors devotee & Creative technologist - loves Yoga, UX, surfing, gadgets, software, skateboarding, photography & life

CV

Professional Experience

2011 - Present

Lead XD consultant at Thoughtworks
Sydney, Australia

Feb 2010 - Apr 2011

Senior Strategist at McCann Worldgroup
Sydney, Australia

Dec 2007 - Dec 2008

Head of Search at Soup
Norwich, United Kingdom

Sep 2004 - Nov 2008

Research & development / SEO expert / Analytics at AVIVA
Norwich, United Kingdom

Oct 2003 - Sep 2005

Teaching / lab assistant at Univeristy of east-anglia (UEA)
Norwich, United Kingdom
Classes taught:
Matlab
Dissertation support for final year undergrads
Java & Lisp

Oct 2002 - Apr 2003

Search engine developer at UEA/Universite Marie-Curie
Norwich, United Kingdom

Education

2003 - Present

University of east-Anglia in Norwich, United Kingdom
PhD artificial intelligence, natural language understanding & generation

Sep 2001 - Sep 2002

University of east-Anglia in Norwich, United Kingdom
Masters computer science

Sep 1998 - Jun 2001

University of east-Anglia in Norwich, United Kingdom
BA (hons) Translating-Interpreting French & German

Consulting Services

http://www.thoughtworks.com