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Mission Statement

  • Every student attendee is improving her or his network
  • No student is left behind… or alone in the corner
  • Ensure ideal conditions for IR students to thrive


More information can be found in the SIGIR Forum December 2017, Volume 51 Number 3,

Volunteers

Current Student Liaisons

  • Mohammad Aliannejadi
    • Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), Lugano, Switzerland
    • Mohammad's research activity is about Mobile Information Retrieval. His main emphasis is on combination of different relevance criteria for mobile IR. Some of the relevance criteria are topical, temporal, geographical, etc. Prior to that, he has worked on Contextual Suggestion and Spoken Language Understanding.
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  • Souvick Ghosh
    • School of Communication and Information, Rutgers University, USA
    • Souvick is interested in Conversational Information Retrieval, which includes but is not limited to searchbots and spoken dialogue systems. He is attempting to use deep learning and NLP techniques to create better models capable of context-aware responses while interacting with humans in information seeking platforms. He is also interested in Searching as Learning, and Social Informatics.
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  • Maram Hasanain
    • Qatar University, Qatar
    • Maram's early research focused on IR tasks over tweets including timeline generation, question answering and real-time summarization. She also worked on the problem of predicting retrieval performance of a query over tweets. Currently, Maram's research interest shifted further towards problems related to IR evaluation with specific focus on the problem of automatic IR system evaluation.
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  • Jaspreet Singh
    • L3S Research Center at Leibniz University Hannover, Germany
    • Jaspreet's research is geared primarily towards retrieval models along with a healthy dose of Data Mining and Applied Machine Learning. He studies users’ search behavior allowing him to create models and develop better search systems. Jaspreet has been fortunate to work with great researchers on new ranking algorithms, search user interfaces and evaluation metrics. He has a long-standing interest in exploratory search, neural retrieval models and interpretability of complex retrieval models.
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  • Johanne Trippas
    • RMIT University, Australia
    • Johanne's area of research is search engine result presentation over a audio-only communication channel without overwhelming the user with information. She is also interested in how conversations can be structured between the user and the Spoken Conversation Search System. Her focus is on the experimental design with multi method analysis as evaluation.
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  • Xiaohui Xie
    • Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
    • Xiaohui's major research interests are Multimedia search and User behavior analysis. He is willing to share ideas with others and has the ambition to cooperate with other researchers to promote the development of information retrieval together.
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Student Affairs Chair

  • Laura Dietz
    • Assistant Professor at University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA
    • Laura's research is on how to best utilize knowledge graphs for text-centric information retrieval. As an example for such work, she is organizing the TREC Complex Answer Retrieval track.


Previous student Liaisons

2018-2019

  • Jiaxin Mao
    • Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
    • Jiaxin's research focuses on user behavior analysis and evaluation for web search engines. He is interested in building user models to infer users' intents, experiences, and satisfaction from their interactions with the search engine.
  • Hamed Zamani
    • University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
    • Hamed is focusing on modeling the core IR problems, e.g., query representation, document representation, and ranking, using (deep) neural networks. He is also interested in theoretical approaches to IR tasks.