Dominykas Seputis joins IRLab as a PhD student. Dominykas will be supervised by Maarten de Rijke. He will be working…
Philipp Hager Defends his PhD Thesis
Philipp Hager will defend his PhD thesis Advancing Neural Click Models for Unbiased Learning-to-Rank on Wednesday, April 29, 2026 at 13.00hrs in…
Yiran Qiao Joins IRLab as a Visiting PhD Student
Yiran Qiao (from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing) is joining the IRLab as a visiting PhD student.…
2025 Impact Call award for Siddharth Mehrotra
We’re proud to announce that Dr. Siddharth Mehrotra, Postdoc at The IRLab at the University of Amsterdam and Impact Officer…
Thilina Rajapakse Defends his PhD Thesis
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…