Postdocs

Current postdocs

• Songgaojun Deng
  Songgaojun works on time series analysis and forecasting
• Ruqing Zhang
  Ruqing works on generative information retrieval and on robustness in the context of information retrieval

Former postdocs

• Dan Li
  Dan Li worked on the use of noisy data for supervised information retrieval tasks.
• 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.