Researchers & Students
Postdocs
- Panagiotis Efstratiadis (2023/09 - now) Topic: Uncertainty in Information Retrieval
- Jia-Hong Huang (2023/11 - now) Topic: Large Language Models in FinTech
PhD Students
- Pantelis Kyriakidis (2024/10 - now) Topic: Textual stream clustering
- Yongkang Li (2023/10 - now) Topic: Adversarial Information Retrieval (co-supervised with Panagiotis Efstratiadis)
- Simon Lupart (2023/10 - now) Topic: Conversational Search (co-supervised with Mohammad Aliannejadi)
- Roxana Petcu (2023/09 - now) Topic: Data Augmentation for Dialogue Systems (co-supervised with Faegheh Hasibi)
- Jingfen Qiao (2022/09 – now) Topic: Generative Information Retrieval (co-supervised with Andrew Yates)
- Hongyi Zhu (2022/09 – now) Topic: Multimodal Information Retrieval (co-supervised with Stevan Rudinac)
- Julien Rossi (2018/07 – now; part-time) Topic: Legal Information Retrieval
Postdocs
- Mohammad Aliannejadi (2019 – 2021) Current position: Assistant Professor at University of Amsterdam
- Svitlana Vlkulenko (2019 – 2021) Current position: Assistant Professor at WU Wien
- Bob van de Velde (2015 – 2018) Current position: Lead Architect Data Science at NPO
- Kaspar Beelen (2017) Current position: Research Associate at Alan Turing Institute
PhD Students
- Vaishali Pal (2025) Topic: Question Answering against Tabular Data (co-supervised with Maarten de Rijke & Andrew Yates)
- Weijia Zhang (2025) Topic: Document Retrieval and Answer Summarization
- Antonis Minas Krasakis (2025) Topic: Conversational Search
- Vera Provatorova (2025) Topic: Entities in Historical Multilingual Documents
- Georgios Sidiropoulos (2025) Topic: Robust Dense Passage Retrieval — Current position: Research Scientist at Bol.com
- Samarth Bhargav (2024) Topic: Conversational Search — Current position: Postdoc at the University of Amsterdam
- Jie Zou (2021) Topic: Learning to Ask Questions to Users in Complex Tasks — Current position: Professor at UESTC
- Dan Li (2020) Topic: Effective Collection Construction for IR Evaluation and Optimization — Current position: Research Scientist at Elsevier
- Chuan Wu (2020) Topic: Entity-based Text Understanding for Information Retrieval — Current position: Assistant Professor at Wuhan University
- Christophe Van Gysel (2017) Topic: Remedies against the Vocabulary Gap in Information Retrieval — Current position: Research Scientist at Apple Inc.