Robert Gaizauskas is a Professor in Computer Science Department. He obtained a DPhil in Computational Logic from the University of Sussex in 1992 and has been working the NLP group in Sheffield since its establishment in 1993. His research interests lie in applied natural language processing, especially text mining or information extraction (IE) with a current focus on medical and biological text. He is also working on the extraction of temporal information from texts and on automatic question answering. He has published over 100 papers in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings and has been an investigator on 16 funded research projects, including projects funded by the UK Research Councils (EPSRC, BBSRC, MRC), the EU, DARPA, and British industry. He is currently the Sheffield lead PI on the myGrid (EPSRC) and CLEF (MRC) e-Science pilot projects, and is responsible for delivering text mining capability in the context of these projects. He has served on the programme committees of numerous leading international conferences and workshops in the area of computational linguistics and as reviewer for all the major journals in this area, as well as for biomedical informatics journals. He has five years experience in the software industry, including working for a search-engine developer.

He gained the Ph.D in the Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval from the Fudan University, China in 2002. He joined the myGrid Project since then, worked as one of the major system developers of the AMBIT information extraction system.