Professional Services

Steering Committee Member
- Evaluating Information Access Systems (ELIAS), 2015 – present
- Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF), 2014 – present

Chair
- 2020 Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF)
- 2017 ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR),
- 2015 Dutch Belgian Information Retrieval workshop (DIR), November 27, 2015

Program Chair
- Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF), 2014
- Information Retrieval Facility Conference (IRFC), 2013

Tutorials Chair
- 39th Annual International Conference on Research & Development on Information Retrieval (SIGIR), 2016
- 32nd Annual European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR), 2011

Best Paper Award Committee Member
- 38th Annual International Conference on Research & Development on Information Retrieval (SIGIR), 2015

Senior Program Committee Member
- 2020 Annual Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
- 24th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2015–20
- 34th, 35th, 36th Annual European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR), 2013, 2014, 2015
- ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR), 2015

Program Committee Member
- ACM SIGIR 2015 Best Paper Award Committee
- ACM SIGIR 2010-20, ACM SIGIR Short Papers 2010-20, ACM SIGIR Tutorials 2014
- ACM CIKM 2012-14
- ACM ECIR 2011, 2012 and ACM ECIR Tutorials 2012, 2016
- ACM WSDM 2012, 2013, 2016, 2019
- ACM WWW 2012, 2013, 2014, 2019
- ACL 2013, 2012, 2015
- EACL 2013, 2014
- ACM ICTIR (International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval) 2015
- CLEF (Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum) 2013, 2015
- FIRE (Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation) 2015
- SPIRE (22nd edition of the International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval) 2015
- Microsoft Research PhD Scholarship 2012-14
- Google Faculty Research Awards 2013-14
- Google Focused Research Awards, 2013-2014
- Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship, 2013-2014
- EVIA 2010-13, AIRS 2010-11, IEEE ISCC 2012, WSCD (Web Search Click Data workshop) 2012-14, OAIR 2013

Reviewer
- Information Processing Letters (IPL)
- Transactions on Database Systems (TODS)
- Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
- Transactions on the Web
- Information Retrieval
- Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS)

Student Mentor
- 32nd and 33rd Annual European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR), 2011 and 2012.

Workshop Organizer
- Information Retrieval over Query Sessions workshop co-located with the 32nd and 33rd Annual European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR), 2011 and 2012; and the Living Labs for Information Retrieval Evaluation workshop co-located with the ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2013).

Consultant on a number of tracks in TREC and CLEF evaluation forums. The xinfAP, an evaluation measure proposed by Emine Yilmaz, Evangelos Kanoulas and Javed A. Aslam in SIGIR’08 adopted by several tracks in TREC, INEX and CLEF