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…
Empowering Future Innovators
My Experience as a Teaching Assistant at AddisCoder This past summer, I had the privilege of serving as a Teaching…
Antonis Krasakis Defends his PhD Thesis
Antonis Krasakis will defend his PhD thesis Improving Passage Retrieval for Conversational Search on May 8, at 10.00am, in the…
Maarten de Rijke selected as ACM Fellow 2024
We are very proud to announce that IRLab-er Maarten de Rijke has been selected as an ACM Fellow, one of the most…
Catherine Chen Joins the IRLab as a Visiting PhD Student
Catherine Chen (from Brown University, USA) is joining the IRLab as a visiting PhD student. Maria Heuss and Maarten de…
Vera Provatorova Defends her PhD Thesis
Vera Provatorova will defend her PhD thesis From Shadows to Connections: Finding Entities in Archival Data and Beyond on Friday,…
Lu Zhang Joins the IRLab as a Visiting PhD Student
Lu Zhang (from the Central China Normal University) is joining the IRLab as a visiting PhD student. Maarten de Rijke…
Yubao Tang Joins the IRLab as a Postdoc
Yubao Tang joins the IRLab as a postdoc. Yubao will be working in the context of AIRLab. She will be…
Samarth Bhargav Joins the IRLab as a Postdoc
Samarth Bhargav joins the IRLab as a postdoc. Sam will be working in the context of AIRLab. He will be…
Best Paper Award at EMNLP 2024
We are very proud to share that Pretraining Data Detection for Large Language Models: A Divergence-based Calibration Method by Weichao…
Georgios Sidiropoulos Defends his PhD Thesis
Georgios Sidiropoulos will defend his PhD thesis Improving the Robustness and Effectiveness of Neural Retrievers in Noisy and Low-Resource Settings…