Marianne Hickey
Researcher
Services Research Lab
Bristol
Services Research Lab
Bristol
Biography
Marianne is a researcher in the Enterprise Informatics Lab, focused on developing the technology foundations and tools for the next generation of enterprise information management systems. She joined HP Labs in 1998, where her research has been in the areas of:
- Increasing the effectiveness of IT management and governance by providing business impact analysis and prediction of all aspects of IT (people, tools and processes) to help IT executives and managers make better informed decisions;
- Large scale adaptive distributed systems, in particular, modelling, virtual machine placement and experimental platforms and services, including a genome search service;
- Speech and language technologies, including architectures and authoring languages for interactive voice and multimodal systems and point speech technologies such as summarisation and retrieval.
Research interests
- IT management: increasing the effectiveness of IT management and governance by providing enhanced business impact analysis, decision support and prediction ability of all aspects of IT (people, tools and processes).
- Large scale adaptive distributed systems.
- Speech and language technologies.