His current research focuses on diverse areas of information retrieval and access technologies, including multilingual, multimedia and mobile applications. Professor Jones has published more than 500 research papers, and has received a number of Best Paper Awards. He was General Co-Chair for ACM SIGIR 2013 and CLEF 2017, he is a co-organizer of the MediaEval multimedia evaluation benchmark which he co-founded in 2010, and has contributed to the organization of a numerous individual benchmark tasks in spoken and multimedia, eHealth and personalised information retrieval at the CLEF, NTCIR, FIRE, TREC and TRECVid international benchmarks. In 2021, he was the recipient of the DCU President's Research Award for Science, Engineering and Computing.