Postdocs

Current postdocs

• Yixing Fan
  Yixing works on robust information retrieval.
• Siddharth Mehrotra
  Siddharth works on impact and trustworthy AI.
• Songgaojun Deng
  Songgaojun works on time series analysis and forecasting

Former postdocs

• Ruqing Zhang
  Ruqing worked on generative information retrieval and on robustness in the context of information retrieval. After her time at the IRLab she moved to the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing.
• Dan Li
  Dan Li worked on the use of noisy data for supervised information retrieval tasks. After IRLab, she moved to Elsevier, in Amsterdam.
• Pengjie Ren
  Pengjie worked on conversational search. He is now a research professor at Shandong University in Qingdao.
• Ilya Markov
  Ilya worked on heterogeneous search. He was originally funded by a grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation and then worked on the NWO-funded project MediaNow. After that, he became an assistant professor at the University of Amsterdam.
• Julia Kiseleva
  Julia worked on user modeling and conversational search. After IRLab, she moved on to work at Microsoft AI in Seattle.
• Christophe Van Gysel
  Christophe worked on neural retrieval models. He moved to Apple in Boston.
• Xiaojuan Zhang
  Xiaojuan worked on query suggestions and on mining user intent. She works at the Southwestern University Chongqing, China.
• Shangsong Liang
  As a postdoc, Shangsong worked on algorithms for diversity and structured learning. His next position was as a postdoc at University College London.
• Manos Tsagkias
  As a postdoc, Manos worked on predictive analysis for the EU/FP7 project LiMoSINe. He left to join a startup he co-founded, 904Labs.
• Floor Sietsma
  Floor worked on online learning to rank. She left to found her own coaching company, Floor Sietsma Coaching.
• Jasmijn van Gorp
  Jasmijn worked on a digital humanities project. She left to become a postdoc in the humanities department and is now an assistant professor at Utrecht University.
• Edgar Meij
  As a postdoc, Edgar worked on semantic search for the EU/FP7 project LiMoSINe. He left and joined Yahoo Labs and then Bloomberg LP in London.
• Wouter Weerkamp
  As a postdoc, Wouter worked on social media analysis. He left to start his own company, 904Labs.
• Krisztian Balog
  As a postdoc, Krisztian worked on semantic search. He left to join NTNU in Trondheim. He is now a full professor at the University of Stavanger.
• Valentin Jijkoun
  As a postdoc, Valentin worked on sentiment analysis and entity normalization. He left to join Textkernel, as a technical lead web mining.
• Balder ten Cate
  Supported by a Veni grant Balder worked on the foundations of XML. He left to work at the University of California at Santa Cruz. He is now an associate professor at ILLC, University of Amsterdam.
• Martha Larson
  Martha worked on multi-modal retrieval for the EU/FP6 project MultiMatch. She left to join Delft University of Technology. She’s now a full professor at Radboud University.
• Erik Tjong Kim Sang
  Erik worked on question answering. He left to work at the University of Groningen and now works for the Meertens Institute (KNAW).
• David Ahn
  David worked on temporal information extraction. He left to work for Powerset and now works for Google.
• Karin Mueller
  Karin worked on question answering. She left to work at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.
• Leif Azzopardi
  Leif worked on expertise retrieval and on pseudo test collections. He left for the University of Glasgow.
• Massimo Franceschet
  Massimo worked on the foundations of XML and on benchmarking XML. He left to join the University of Udine, where he is now a professor.
• Stefan Schlobach
  Stefan worked on knowledge representation in the context of question answering. He left to join the VU University Amsterdam, where he is now an associate professor.
• Khalil Sima’an
  As a postdoc in my team, Khalil worked on parsing technology. He is now a full professor at ILLC, University of Amsterdam.