Pengjie Ren
Pengjie worked on conversational search. He is now a research professor at Shandong University.
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. He is now an assistant professor at the University of Amsterdam.
Julia Kiseleva
Julia worked on user modeling and conversational search. She now works at Microsoft AI.
Christophe Van Gysel
Christophe worked on neural retrieval models. He now works at Apple.
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. He is now 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. He now works at Bloomberg LP.
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, where he is now 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 now works for Google.
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. He now holds a Chancellor’s Fellowship at the University of Strathclyde.
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.
