Students

Postdocs

• Svitlana Vlkulenko (2019 – now)
• Mohammad Mohammad Aliannejadi (2019 – now)

PhD Students

• Weijia Zhang (2020 – now) – funded by China Scholarship Council. Topic: Conversational Search and Summarization
• Antonis Minas Krasakis (2019 – now) – funded by NWO VIDI Topic: Conversational Search
• Samarth Bhargav (2019 – now) – funded by NWO VIDI Topic: Conversational Search
• Georgios Sidiropoulos (2019 – now) – funded by H2020 SafeMode Topic: Question Answering
• Vera Provatorova (2018 – now) – funded by NWO Smart Culture. Topic: Entity Extraction and Linking in Historical Corpora
• Julien Rossi (2018 – now) – funded by Amsterdam Business School. Topic: Legal Information Retrieval
• Jie Zou (2017 – 2021) – funded by China Scholarship Council.
  • Question-based search and recommender systems
• Dan Li (2016 – 2020) – funded by China Scholarship Council.
  • Effective Collection Construction for Information Retrieval Evaluation and Optimization
• Chuan Wu (2015 – 2020) – funded by China Scholarship Council.
  • Entity-centric Document Understanding: Entity Aspects and Salience

Past Members of the Group

• Bob van de Velde (postdoc, now at NPO)
• Kaspar Beelen (postdoc, now at The Alan Turing Institute)
• Christophe Van Gysel (PhD, 2014 –2017), now at Apple Inc.
  • Remedies Against the Vocabulary Gap in Information Retrieval.