Thilina Rajapakse will defend his PhD thesis Transformers for Search: Retrieval, Robustness, and Refusal on Friday, February 13, 2026 at…
PhD Position in Responsible Advice-Giving Systems
Come and join the IRLab to work as a PhD student. We are seeking a PhD student to pursue research…
Maria Heuss Joins IRLab as an Assistant Professor
Maria Heuss joins the IRLab as an Assistant Professor. Maria’s research lies in the field of responsible advice-giving systems, particularly…
IRLab at ECIR 2026
IRLab is proud to have the following contributions accepted at ECIR 2026: The 48th European Conference on Information Retrieval:
Vacancy for a Research Engineer in Generative Information Retrieval
We have a vacancy for a four year research engineer position in generative information retrieval, in the context of the…
Ruben van Heusden Defends his PhD Thesis
Ruben van Heusden will defend his PhD thesis Improving Public Access to Government Documents on Thursday December 11, 2025, at…
Three PhD Student Positions in Generative Information Retrieval
We are seeking three highly motivated PhD students to work on topics in generative information retrieval. The positions are funded…
Postdoc Vacancy in Generative Information Retrieval
We have a vacancy for a three year postdoc to work on generative information retrieval in the context of the…
Maria Heuss Defends her PhD Thesis
Maria Heuss will defend her PhD thesis Responsible Advice-Giving Systems: Fairness and Interpretability in Information Retrieval on Monday October 27,…
Yuyue Zhao Defends her PhD Thesis
Yuyue Zhao will defend her PhD thesis From Enhancement to Exploitation: The Dual Role of LLMs in Recommender Systems on…
Shashank Gupta Defends his PhD Thesis
Shashank Gupta will defend his PhD thesis Safe, Efficient, and Robust Reinforcement Learning for Ranking and Diffusion Models on October…
Fatemeh Sarvi Defends her PhD Thesis
Fatemeh Sarvi will defend her PhD thesis Learning to Rank for e-Commerce Search on Wednesday October 22, 2025 at 10.00hrs…
Two ICTIR 2025 Best Paper Honorable Mentions
At ICTIR 2025, the 11th ACM SIGIR / 15th International Conference on Innovative Concepts and Theories in Information Retrieval, held…
IRLab at SIGIR 2025 (Day 6)
On day 6 of SIGIR 2025 (July 18), IRLab-ers will be presenting the following materials at ICTIR 2025: The 15th…
IRLab at SIGIR (Day 5)
On day 5 of SIGIR 2025 (July 17), IRLab-ers will be presenting the following materials at the conference: