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…
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…
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…
Vaishali Pal Defends her PhD Thesis
Vaishali Pal will defend her PhD thesis Information Seeking over Semi-Structured Tabular Data on Wednesday September 3, 2025 in the…
Clemencia Siro Defends her PhD Thesis
Clemencia Siro will defend her PhD thesis Rethinking the Human-Centered Evaluation of Conversational Systems on Tuesday July 8, 2025 in…
Chuan Meng Defends his PhD Thesis
Chuan Meng will defend his PhD thesis entitled Optimizing Agentic Workflows for Information Access on Thursday June 19, 2025 in…
Yougang Lyu Defends his PhD Thesis
Yougang Lyu will defend his PhD thesis Aligning Language Models with Human Understanding and Behavior on Thursday July 3, 2025…
Barrie Kersbergen Defends his PhD Thesis
Barrie Kersbergen will defend his PhD thesis Expanding Boundaries in Scalable Session-Based Recommendations on July 7, at 17.00hrs, in the…