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…
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
We welcome Maria Heuss! Maria joins the IRLab as an Assistant Professor. Maria’s research lies in the field of responsible…