Falk Scholer

I'm a Professor of Information Access and Retrieval in the discipline of Information, Technology and Interaction, in the School of Computing Technologies at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia.

My research in the area of information access and retrieval focuses on understanding how tools such as search engines, recommender systems and LLMs can assist users to resolve their information needs, and how their effectiveness can be measured. 

I'm a founding Director of the RMIT Centre for Human-AI Information Environments (CHAI), a research centre that brings together experts from the computing, information and social sciences to solve problems on information access and retrieval, including search engines, recommender systems, chatbots and LLMs. 

Other key research interests include the fairness, accountability, transparency and ethics of systems and algorithms (as part of the ARC Center of Excellence in Automated Decision-Making and Society), and misinformation, fake news and fact-checking (as part of the RMIT FactLab research hub). 

I teach a range of courses, including web development and programming, data science, HCI, databases, and information retrieval.

I'm also passionate about human research ethics and am the Chair of the RMIT Human Research Ethics Committee (HREC).