David D’Avila Acris (Universidade Federal do Amazonas) joins the IRLab as a visiting PhD student, to work with Harrie Oosterhuis…
Jiaxuan Yu Joins IRLab as a PhD Student
Jiaxuan Yu joins IRLab as a PhD student in a collaboration between Leiden University, Randstad BV and the University of…
Best Paper Award at ICTIR 2026
The Best Paper Award at ICTIR 2026 went to IRLab member Harrie Oosterhuis and his co-authors Rolf Jagerman, Zhen Qin,…
IRLab at SIGIR & ICTIR 2026
The IRLab has 33 contributions at SIGIR 2026 & ICTIR 2026 happening in Melbourne this week.
Polina Tcherkachin Joins IRLab as an External PhD Student
Polina Tcherkachin (BMW AG) joins the IRLab as an external PhD student. She will be supervised by Maarten de Rijke…
Mingwei Zhang Joins IRLab as a PhD Student
Mingwei Zhang Joins IRLab as a PhD student. He will be co-supervised by Zhaochun Ren (Leiden University) and Maarten de…
Rui Zhao Joins IRLab as a PhD Student
Rui Zhao is joining IRLab as a PhD student. Rui will be supervised by Maarten de Rijke. She will be…
Shiguang Wu Joins IRLab as a PhD Student
Shiguang Wu joins IRLab as a PhD student. Shiguang will be supervised by Maarten de Rijke. He will be working…
Oscar Ramirez Milian Joins IRLab as a PhD Student
Oscar Ramirez Milian is joining IRLab as a PhD student. Oscar will be supervised by Harrie Oosterhuis. He will be…
Ana Meta Dolinar Joins IRLab as a PhD Student
Ana Meta Dolinar joins IRLab as a PhD student. Ana will be supervised by Maria Heuss. She will be working…
Harrie Oosterhuis Joins IRLab as an Associate Professor
We welcome Harrie Oosterhuis. Harrie is joining IRLab as an Associate Professor. Harrie’s research lies at the intersection of machine…
Best Paper Award at ECIR 2026
We are very proud to share that LLM-Based Listwise Reranking Under the Effect of Positional Bias by Jingfen Qiao, Jin…
Dominykas Seputis Joins IRLab as a PhD Student
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…