Senior staff

• Mohammad Aliannejadi, assistant professor [mail, scholar, web]
• Evangelos Kanoulas, professor, director of the IRLab Amsterdam [mail, scholar, web]
• Mounia Lalmas, distinguished research fellow [mail, scholar, web]
• Maarten Marx, assistant professor [mail, scholar, web]
• Maarten de Rijke, distinguished university professor [mail, scholar, web]
• Vacancy, assistant professor in responsible advice giving systems

Researchers

• Samarth Bhargav, postdoc
• Panagiotis Eustratiadis, postdoc [mail, scholar]
• Jia-Hong Huang, postdoc [scholar]
• Teng Long, postdoc [scholar]
• Siddharth Mehrotra, postdoc [scholar]
• Yubao Tang, postdoc

• Zahra Abbasiantaeb, PhD student [scholar]
• Gionata Bouchè, PhD student (based at IViR)
• Xinyi Chen, PhD student [scholar]
• Maxime Dassen, PhD student [mail, scholar, web]
• Daniel Gomm, PhD student (based at CWI)
• Shashank Gupta, PhD student [mail, scholar, web]
• Philipp Hager, PhD student [mail, scholar, web]
• Ruben van Heusden, PhD student [scholar]
• Maria Heuss, PhD student [mail, scholar]
• Dylan Ju, PhD student
• Shaojie Jiang, PhD student
• Sami Jullien, PhD student
• Jingwei Kang, PhD student [scholar]
• Jasmin Kareem, PhD student (jointly with Eindhoven University of Technology) [scholar]
• Yibin Lei, PhD student [scholar]
• Yongkang Li, PhD student [mail, scholar, web]
• Yuanna Liu, PhD student
• Simon Lupart, PhD student [mail, scholar, web]
• Yougang Lyu, PhD student [scholar]
• Kidist Mekonnen, PhD student [scholar]
• Chuan Meng, PhD student [web]
• Maryam Mousavian, PhD student (jointly with University of Lugano)
• Thong Nguyen, PhD student [mail, scholar]
• Vaishali Pal, PhD student [mail, scholar]
• Roxana Petcu, PhD student [scholar]
• Jingfen Qiao, PhD student
• Thilina Rajapakse, PhD student [scholar]
• Julien Rossi, PhD student [mail, scholar]
• Clara Rus, PhD student [scholar]
• Fatemeh Sarvi, PhD student
• Siddharth Singh, PhD student
• David Vos, PhD student [mail, scholar, web]
• Lu Zhang, PhD student
• Yuyue Zhao, PhD student
• Hongyi Zhu, PhD student

Support staff

• Maik Larooij, research engineer [scholar]
• Ivana Markovic, secretary
• Gabrielle Poerwawinata, research engineer [mail, scholar]

Visitors

• Catherine Chen (Brown University), visiting PhD student
• Yixing Fan (Chinese Academy of Sciences), visiting postdoc
• Mohanna Hoveyda (Radboud University Nijmegen), visiting PhD student

Alumni

• Mozhdeh Ariannezhad, PhD student, defended her PhD thesis in December 2023
• Gabriel Bénédict, PhD student, defended his PhD thesis in March 2024
• Petra Best, secretary, joined the project management team for ICAI and LTP ROBUST in March 2023
• Samarth Bhargav, PhD student, defended his PhD thesis in November 2024
• Maurits Bleeker, PhD student, defended his PhD thesis in June 2024
• Wanyu Chen, PhD student, defended her PhD thesis in February 2021
• Praveen Dakwale, PhD student, defended his PhD thesis in October 2020
• Pablo Di Capua, secretary, moved to the HR department in January 2023
• Romain Deffayet, PhD student, defended his PhD thesis in October, 2024
• Songgaojun Deng, postdoc, joined Eindhoven University of Technology in February 2025
• Marzieh Fadaee, PhD student, defended her PhD thesis in October 2020
• Yang Fang, PhD student, defended his PhD thesis in December 2023
• Iman Firouzifard, Research assistant, Q1 2023
• Marta Freixo Lopes, Research assistant, Q1 2023
• Hamidreza Ghader, PhD student, defended his PhD thesis in October 2020
• Hinda Haned, professor by special appointment, joined the new Socially Intelligent Artificial Systems lab in December 2020
• Mariya Hendriksen, PhD student, defended her PhD thesis in December 2024
• Maartje ter Hoeve, PhD student, defended her PhD thesis in May 2023
• Jin Huang, PhD student and visiting postdoc, defended her PhD thesis in February 2024
• Rolf Jagerman, PhD student, defended his PhD thesis in December 2020
• Barrie Kersbergen, PhD student, is scheduled to defend his thesis in July 2025
• Pooya Khandel, PhD student, is scheduled to defend his his in Q4, 2025
• Antonios Krasakis, PhD student, is scheduled to defend his thesis in May 2025
• Ron Kremer, Research assistant, Q1 2023
• Ilias Koutsakis, research engineer, left the IRLab in December 2022
• Chang Li, PhD student, defended his PhD thesis in March 2021
• Dan Li, PhD student and postdoc, defended her PhD thesis in November 2020 and then held a postdoc position until January 2022, after which she joined Elsevier
• Ming Li, PhD student, defended his PhD thesis in February 2024
• Ziming Li, PhD student and postdoc, defended his PhD thesis in December 2020 and then held a postdoc position until May 2021, after which he joined Amazon
• Ana Lucic, PhD student, defended her PhD thesis in September 2022
• Ilya Markov, assistant professor, left the IRLab in September 2021
• Harrie Oosterhuis, PhD student, defended his PhD thesis in November 2020
• Jiahuan Pei, PhD student, defended her PhD thesis in December 2022
• Vera Provatorova, PhD student, defended her PhD thesis in March 2025
• Pengjie Ren, postdoc, joined Shandong University in December 2020
• Georgios Sidiropoulos, PhD student, defended his PhD thesis in January 2025
• Clemencia Siro, PhD student, is scheduled to defend her PhD thesis in July 2025
• Angela van Sprang, research assistant, January-September 2022
• Olivier Sprangers, PhD student, defended his PhD thesis in September 2024
• Giulio Starace, research assistant, January-September 2022
• Svitlana Vakulenko, postdoc, left the IRLab in October 2021
• Ali Vardasbi, PhD student, defended his PhD thesis in December 2023
• Nikos Voskarides, PhD student, defended his PhD thesis in February 2021
• Zihan Wang, PhD student, defended his PhD thesis in December 2024
• Chuan Wu, PhD student, defended his PhD thesis in November 2020
• Andrew Yates, assistant professor, moved to Johns Hopkins University in January 2025
• Ruqing Zhang, postdoc during 2022-2023
• Weijia Zhang, PhD student, is scheduled to defend his PhD thesis in Q3, 2025
• Yangjun Zhang, PhD student, defended her PhD in December 2022
• Jie Zou, PhD student and postdoc, defended his PhD thesis in September 2021 and then held a postdoc position until November 2021, after which he joined the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China

Past visitors

• Amin Abolghasemi (Leiden University), March-August 2023
• Qingyao Ai (University of Utah), virtual, October 2021
• James Allan (University of Massachusetts), October 2024
• Arian Askari (Leiden University), December 2022-December 2023
• Krisztian Balog (University of Stavanger and Google), March 2024
• Ben Carterette (Spotify), virtual, September 2021
• Carlos Castillo (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), virtual, January 2021
• Charles Clarke (University of Waterloo), October 2024
• Fabio Crestani (University of Lugano), June 2023
• Gianluca Demartini (University of Queensland), virtual, June 2021
• Zhirui Deng (Renmin University of China), October 2024-April 2025
• Fernando Diaz (Google Research Montreal), virtual, May 2021
• Carsten Eickhoff (Brown University), January-May 2022
• Negin Gashemitaheri (Radboud University), November 2022-March 2023
• Mounia Lalmas (Spotify), virtual, November 2020
• Carlos Lassance (Cohere), October 2024
• Ming Li (Meta), March 2024-February 2025
• Peibo Li (University of New South Wales), April 2024
• Yuanxing Liu (Harbin Institute of Technology), January-December 2022
• Federico Marcuzzi (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice), March-June 2023
• Oscar E. Mendoza (University of Milano Bicocca), March-June 2023
• Jian-Yun Nie (University of Montreal), virtual, February 2021
• Benjamin Piwowarski (CNRS, ISIR, Sorbonne Université), May 2025
• Mehrdad Rostami (University of Oulu), April-July 2024
• Cosimo Rulli (University of Pisa), December 2023-Februari 2024
• Yuta Saito (Cornell University), virtual, June 2022
• Mark Sanderson (RMIT), September 2024
• Saedeh Tahery (K.N. Toosi University of Technology), July-December 2023
• Nava Tintarev (Maastricht University), October 2022
• Justine Winkler (Radboud University), virtual, October 2020-March 2021
• Chen Xu (Renmin University of China), October 2024-April 2025
• Yifei Yuan (Chinese University of Hong Kong), July 2022-March 2023
• Ziyi Ye (Tsinghua University), November 2023-January 2024
• Yueqing Yuan (RMIT), September 2023
• Min Zhang (Tsinghua University), virtual, July 2021