About Us

Research Assistants

PhotoDr Chris Dowden

Room: McCrea 208 - Tel: 01784 443695 - E-mail: Chris.Dowden [at] rhul [dot] ac [dot] uk
PhotoDr Yangyue Feng

Room: McCrea 250
PhotoDr Martin Helmhout Dr Martin Helmhout (Beng, BSc, MSc, PhD) received a PhD (distinction) in Management Science from the University of Groningen (The Netherlands) in 2006. His background is multidisciplinary: over several years he has acquired expertise in the areas of knowledge management, cognitive psychology, social science, semiotics, computer science and artificial intelligence (multi-agent systems and machine learning). In 2008, he became a member of the Information:Signals, Images, Systems (ISIS) research group at the University of Southampton and conducted research in secure mobile context-aware distributed recommender systems. Currently, he works together with Dr Lizzie Coles-Kemp and Dr Elahe Kani-Zabihi on the VOME project. The current focus of his research interests is in management of personal information; keeping control over collecting, processing, using and sharing of personal information.

Room: McCrea 208 - Tel: 01784 276517 - E-mail: Martin.Helmhout [at] rhul [dot] ac [dot] uk
PhotoDr. Elahe Kani-Zabihi is currently working with Dr Lizzie Coles-Kemp on the VOME project. Her areas of interest include Privacy and Consent technologies, User-centred design, Human Computer Interaction, Digital Libraries, Digital Content Management and Data Management Systems.

Room: McCrea 208 - Tel: 01784 276517 - E-mail: elahe.kani [at] rhul [dot] ac [dot] uk
PhotoDr Bertram Poettering

Room: McCrea 217 - Tel: 01784 276460