Rosie Jones is Director of Computational Advertising at Akamai Technologies.
Her research interests include computational advertising, web search, geographic information retrieval, and natural language processing. She received her PhD from the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
under the supervision of Tom Mitchell, where her doctoral thesis was titled Learning to Extract Entities
from Labeled and Unlabeled Text. She co-organized the WSDM 2009 Workshop on Web Search Click Data (WSCD09) and is giving a tutorial at SIGIR 2009 on "IR Prototypes and Web Search Hacks with Open Source Tools".
She has served on the Senior PC for SIGIR 2007-2009, and is a Senior Member of the ACM.