Shashank Gupta will defend his PhD thesis Safe, Efficient, and Robust Reinforcement Learning for Ranking and Diffusion Models on October…

Fatemeh Sarvi will defend her PhD thesis Learning to Rank for e-Commerce Search on Wednesday October 23, 2025 at 10.00hrs…

Vaishali Pal will defend her PhD thesis Information Seeking over Semi-Structured Tabular Data on Wednesday September 3, 2025 in the…

Clemencia Siro will defend her PhD thesis Rethinking the Human-Centered Evaluation of Conversational Systems on Tuesday July 8, 2025 in…

Chuan Meng will defend his PhD thesis entitled Optimizing Agentic Workflows for Information Access on Thursday June 19, 2025 in…

Yougang Lyu will defend his PhD thesis Aligning Language Models with Human Understanding and Behavior on Thursday July 3, 2025…

Barrie Kersbergen will defend his PhD thesis Expanding Boundaries in Scalable Session-Based Recommendations on July 7, at 17.00hrs, in the…

Antonis Krasakis will defend his PhD thesis Improving Passage Retrieval for Conversational Search on May 8, at 10.00am, in the…

Vera Provatorova will defend her PhD thesis From Shadows to Connections: Finding Entities in Archival Data and Beyond on Friday,…

Georgios Sidiropoulos will defend his PhD thesis Improving the Robustness and Effectiveness of Neural Retrievers in Noisy and Low-Resource Settings…

Samarth Bhargav will defend his PhD thesis Navigating Uncertain Waters in Information Retrieval on Thursday, November 28, 2024, at 10:00, in the…

On March 4, 2021 Chang Li will defend his PhD thesis Optimizing Ranking Systems Online as Bandits. Location: Agnietenkapel. Time:…