Some main speaking commitments (2010-2019) are listed below, ordered by year. Older talks (before 2010) can be found here. Talks given in 2020 or later can be found here.
2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011 • 2010 • 2009 • 2008 • 2007 • 2006 • 2005 • 2004 • 2003 • 2002 • 2001 • 2000 • 1999 • 1998 • 1997 • 1996 • 1995 • 1994 • 1993 • 1992 • 1991 • 1990
If you want to inquire about a possible invitation, please send an initial email to Petra Best, p.best@uva.nl, preferably at least three months before the event.
2019
- ICAI Next Steps, Amsterdam, December 2019 (outreach)
- AI in Nederland/AI in Amsterdam, Den Haag, December 2019 (outreach)
- Conversations based on Search Engine Result Pages, Redmond, December 2019 (science)
- De Digitale Samenleving, KNAW, Amsterdam, November 2019 (outreach)
- Bayesian Personalized Feature Interaction Selection for Factorization Machines, DIR, Amsterdam, November 2019 (science)
- ICAI AI Labs, EZK, Den Haag, November 2019 (outreach)
- Information Retrieval – A Research Agenda, CAAS, Beijing, November 2019 (science)
- Message Passing for Complex Question Answering over Knowledge Graphs, CIKM, Beijing, November 2019 (science)
- Over AI, Academische Club, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, November 2019 (outreach)
- Conversations based on Search Engine Result Pages, Helsinki, Finland, October 2019 (science)
- Conversations based on Search Engine Result Pages, WI 2019, Thessaloniki, Greece, October 2019 (science)
- Information Retrieval, Huawei, Shenzhen, China, August 2019 (science)
- SERP-Based Conversations, SCAI workshop, IJCAI, Macao, China, August 2019 (science)
- Unbiased Learning to Rank: Counterfactual and Online Approaches, SIGIR 2019, Paris, France, July 2019 (science)
- Information Retrieval as Interaction, ESSIR European Summer School in Information Retrieval, Milano, Italy, July 2019 (science)
- Machine Learning for Information Retrieval, ASSIA Asian Summer School in Information Access, Haikou, China, July 2019 (science)
- Over ICAI, Innovatie in de Stad, Amsterdam, June 2019 (outreach)
- CIVIC AI Lab, Amsterdamlezing, Amsterdam, June 2019 (outreach)
- Ronde Tafel AI en Belasting, Belastingdienst, Utrecht, June 2019 (outreach)
- Artificial Intelligence en ICAI, RVO, Den Haag, June 2019 (outreach)
- AI and the future of (scientific) work, Women in Tech, Amsterdam, June 2019 (outreach)
- Artificial Intelligence voor iedereen!, Universiteitsdag, Amsterdam, June 2019 (outreach)
- Unbiased learning to rank from user interactions, Antwerp University, Antwerp, Belgium, June 2019 (science)
- Great Science, Great Impact, University of Amsterdam, June 2019 (outreach)
- AI in Nederland, FME, Eindhoven, May 2019 (outreach)
- Unbiased learning to rank from user interactions, Shandong University, Qingdao, China, May 2019 (science)
- At the start of a new RPA, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, May 2019 (science)
- Unbiased learning to rank from user interactions, Booking.com Amsterdam, May 2019 (science)
- AI en Algoritmes, Roosendaal, April 2019 (outreach)
- Get to Work, ERC Event “We, Creators of AI”, Amsterdam, March 2019 (science)
- Recommender Systems and Collective Intelligence, Amsterdam, March 2019 (science)
- Artificial Intelligence and Information Retrieval, Spui 25, Amsterdam, March 2019 (outreach)
- Kunstmatige Intelligentie. Wat is het? Wat gebeurt er?, Actuarieel Instituut, Utrecht, March 2019 (outreach)
- Neural Outfit Recommendation, DAPA Workshop, WSDM 2019, Melbourne, Australia, February 2019 (science)
- Reinforcement Learning to Rank, WSDM 2019, Melbourne, Australia, February 2019 (science)
- Innovation with AI. EPIC Data Science Meetup, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia, February 2019 (outreach)
- Retrieval as Interaction, Africa School on Information Retrieval and Data Mining, Cape Town, South Africa, January 2019 (education)
- ILPS 2019, University of Amsterdam, January 2019 (organization)
2018
- AUC Big Data Lecture, Amsterdam University College, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, December 2018 (education)
- ICAI, Amsterdam Science Park, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, December 2018 (outreach)
- AI & Algoritmes, Van Doorne Amsterdam, The Netherlands, November 2018 (outreach)
- Retrieval as Interaction, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, November 2018 (science)
- Retrieval as Interaction, Strix Award, London, UK, November 2018 (science)
- AI for Societal Challenges, Leiden, The Netherlands, November 2018 (outreach)
- Retrieval as Interaction, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, November 2018 (science)
- Innovation in the age of intelligence, Technische Universiteit Delft, Delft, The Netherlands, November 2018 (outreach)
- Innovation in the age of intelligence, ABS, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, November 2018 (outreach)
- Shifting Information Interactions, CIKM 2018, Turin, Italy, October 2018 (science)
- AI voor Nederland, ICAI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, October 2018 (outreach)
- Relevance is Visual, Emerce Day, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, October 2018 (outreach)
- AI, WRR, Den Haag, The Netherlands, October 2018 (outreach)
- AI and its impact, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands, September 2018 (science)
- Dialogue generation: From imitation learning to inverse reinforcement learning, Google Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, September 2018 (science)
- AI and Business, VU University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 2018 (science)
- Ranking for relevance and display preferences in complex presentation layouts, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria, September 2018 (science)
- Hybride Intelligentie, Opening Academisch Jaar, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 2018 (science)
- Innovation Center for Artificial Intelligence, KD Panel, KDD 2018, London, UK, August 2018 (science)
- Personalized Ranking of Paper Recommendations, Big Scholar, KDD 2018, London, UK, August 2018 (science)
- Modeling and Predicting Podcast User Behavior, Workshop on Machine Learning and Data Mining for Podcasts, KDD 2018, London, UK, August 2018 (science)
- Information discovery in e-commerce, SIGIR 2018, Ann Arbor, USA, July 2018 (science)
- AI, Machine Learning, en Zoeken, Odgers Berndtson, Brummen, The Netherlands, July 2018 (outreach)
- De laatste ontwikkelingen in AI en Machine Learning, NRC Live, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 2018 (outreach)
- Hoe weet YouTube wat ik leuk vind?, Nemo Science Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 2018 (outreach)
- AI and Technology-Assisted Systematic Reviews, CES Asia, Shanghai, China, June 2018 (outreach)
- Innovation in the Age of Intelligence, AI Summit, Shanghai, China, June 2018 (outreach)
- AI and Innovation (panel), AI Summit, Shanghai, China, June 2018 (outreach)
- Efficient evaluation of interactive systems with theoretical guarantees, BigWeb, Lyon, France, April 2018 (science)
- Learning to search for datasets, WWW 2018 Workshop, Lyon, France, April 2018 (science)
- IR systems as interactive systems, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China, April 2018 (science)
- IR systems as interactive systems, Peking University, Beijing, China, April 2018 (science)
- IR systems as interactive systems, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, April 2018 (science)
- Neural networks for information retrieval, ECIR 2018, Toulouse, France, April 2018 (science)
- Explaining rankings, Royal Society/KNAW workshop, London, UK, February 2018 (science)
- Responsible information retrieval, SWIRL 2018, Melbourne, Australia, February 2018 (science)
- Data science innovation, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia, February 2018 (outreach)
- Neural networks for information retrieval, WSDM 2018, Los Angeles, USA, February 2018 (science)
2017
- Data science and information retrieval, Teheran, Iran, November 2017 (science)
- Amsterdam Data Science, Teheran, Iran, November 2017 (science)
- Faces of entity retrieval, Dalian, China, November 2017 (science)
- What’s next in information retrieval, Yangling, China, November 2017 (science)
- Query formulation and topic shift in academic search, Amsterdam, October 2017 (science)
- Update on research data search, Amsterdam, September 2017 (science)
- Learning from logged bandit feedback, Tokyo, Japan, September 2017 (science)
- Foundations of information retrieval, Barcelona, Spain, September 2017 (science)
- Neural networks for information retrieval, Yekaterinburg, Russia, August 2017 (science)
- Neural models for modeling and predicting information interaction behavior, Shanghai, China, July 2017 (science)
- Hoe voorspelbaar ben jij?, Amsterdam, July 2017 (outreach)
- Transparent search engines, Amsterdam, June 2017 (science)
- Learning to specialize for search and recommendation, Beijing, China, June 2017 (outreach)
- Learning from logged bandit feedback, Beijing, China, June 2017 (science)
- Entity finding and explanation, Beijing, China, June 2017 (outreach)
- Data, data, data, Wuhan, China, April 2017 (science)
- Agents that Get the Right Information to the Right People in the Right Way, Wuhan, China, April 2017 (science)
- Agents that Get the Right Information to the Right People in the Right Way, Chongqing, China, April 2017 (science)
- AI and IR, ECIR 2017, Aberdeen, Scotland, April 2017 (science)
- Information Retrieval and Artificial Intelligence, IR Fest, Glasgow, Scotland, April 2017 (science)
- Digital consciousness, Amsterdam, March 2017 (outreach)
- The birth of collective memories, Stavanger, Norway, March 2017 (science)
- Data, data, data, Bloomberg Data Science seminar, London, UK, March 2017 (science)
- The birth of collective memories, Saarbruecken, Germany, February 2017 (science)
- Who we are, Amsterdam Data Science, February 2017 (outreach)
- Who we are, Amsterdam Data Science, January 2017 (outreach)
- Search without search box, ILPS Soos, Amsterdam, January 2017 (science)
- Deep entity search, ADS Meetup, Amsterdam, January 2017 (science)
2016
- Information interaction, Amsterdam, Licht op Rusland, Amsterdam, December 2016 (outreach)
- Modeling information interactions, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, China, November 2016 (science)
- Modeling information interactions, Shandong University, Jinan, China, November 2016 (science)
- Modern Zoeken: Interactie, Leren en Aanpassen, Wikimedia Foundation Nederland, Utrecht, November 2016 (outreach)
- Online Experimentation in Information Retrieval, Sberbank Data Science Journey, Moscow, Russia, November 2016 (science)
- Information retrieval and artificial intelligence, Sberbank Corporate University, Moscow, Russia, November 2016 (outreach)
- Amsterdam Data Science, Amsterdam, November 2016 (outreach)
- Information retrieval and artificial intelligence, Amsterdam, November 2016 (science)
- Time-aware multi-viewpoint summarization of multilingual social text streams, CIKM, Indianapolis, US, October 2016 (science)
- Amsterdam Data Science, Graz, Austria, October 2016 (science)
- The neural turn in information retrieval, Criteo, Paris, France, September 2016 (science)
- Naturally intelligent search, KDWeb, Sardinia, Italy, September 2016 (science)
- Click models, RUSSIR, Saratov, Russia, August 2016 (science)
- Online learning to rank for information retrieval, SIGIR, Pisa, Italy, July 2016 (science)
- De zoekmachine die zichzelf uitlegt, Enschede, July 2016 (outreach)
- ADS and AMC, Amsterdam, June 2016 (outreach)
- Long tail entities, Amsterdam, June 2016 (science)
- Amsterdam Data Science, Amsterdam, June 2016 (outreach)
- Mixed initiative search, Eindhoven, June 2016 (science)
- Mixed initiative search, Amsterdam, June 2016 (outreach)
- The automated future, Amsterdam, April 2016 (outreach)
- Data-driven Information Retrieval, ECIR, Padova, Italy, March 2016 (science)
- Data, kennis en innovatie voor Amsterdam in 2018, Amsterdam, March 2016 (outreach)
- Semantic entities, Netflix, Los Gatos, US, February 2016 (science)
- Introducing WSDM 2017, San Francisco, US, February 2016 (events)
- Click models, WSDM, San Francisco, US, February 2016 (science)
- Ethics of online experimentation, WSDM, San Francisco, US, February 2016 (science)
- Self-Learning Search Engines: Unsupervised Hot Fixes, Amsterdam, January 2016 (science)
- Amsterdam Data Science: Where We Are, Amsterdam, January 2016 (organization)
- An Update on Amsterdam Data Science, Amsterdam, January 2016 (organization)
2015
- Information and Language Processing Systems, Amsterdam, December 2015 (outreach)
- Amsterdam Data Science: Update, Amsterdam, December 2015 (outreach)
- Het geheim van de zoekmachine, Bergen op Zoom, November 2015 (outreach)
- Responsible Information Retrieval, Amsterdam, November 2015 (science)
- The Spaghetti Book, Amsterdam, November 2015 (science)
- CoMerDa: The state of affairs, Utrecht, November 2015 (science)
- Monitoring vocabulary shifts over time, Hannover, Germany, November 2015 (science)
- Semantic entities, Melbourne, Australia, October 2015 (science)
- Mining social text streams, Amsterdam, October 2015 (science)
- Content analysis, knowledge representation, machine learning, Amsterdam, October 2015 (outreach)
- AAA Data Science, Amsterdam, September 2015 (science)
- Personalized communication, Amsterdam, September 2015 (science)
- MediaNow Kick-off, Hilversum, September 2015 (science)
- IR foundational concepts & models, Thessaloniki, Greece, August 2015 (science)
- Hoe werkt Google, NEMO Codestarter, Amsterdam, June 27, 2015 (outreach)
- Panel on semantic analysis of social media, Talking about Twitter, Granada, Spain, June 23, 2015 (outreach)
- Entity-oriented search engine result pages, Athens, Greece, June 2015 (science)
- Zoekmachines en algoritmes, Swammerdam Radio, Amsterdamfm.nl, Amsterdam, May 2015 (outreach)
- 1ste Politiedebat, Apeldoorn, May 2015 (outreach)
- On the way to success, Amsterdam, April 2015 (science)
- AAA Data Science Kick-off, Amsterdam, April 2015 (science)
- Data, Data, Data, Amsterdam, April 2015 (science)
- Big Data and Culture, Munich, March 2015 (science)
- Learning Analytics, Amsterdam, March 2015 (outreach)
- AAA Data Science, Amsterdam, March 2015 (science)
- Amsterdam Data Science, Zaandam, February 2015 (outreach)
- Search engines that learn from their users, Tarragona, Spain, January 2015 (science)
2014
- Contrastive tweets summarization, Vox-POL Annual Meeting, Berlin, Germany, December 2014
- Diversity and the pursuit of intent, ADCS, Melbourne, Australia, November 2014
- Don’t hurt them: Learning to rank from historical interaction data, IRFC, Copenhagen, Denmark, November 2014
- Search engines that learn from their users, National University of Defense Technology, Changsa, China, November 2014
- Online exploration for detecting shifts in fresh intent, CIKM 2014, Shanghai, China, November 2014
- Search engines that learn from their users, DBDBD, Antwerp, Belgium, October 2014
- ACT NY, The future of big data, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, October 2014
- Weakly supervised ranking, Bloomberg Labs, New York, USA, September 2014
- Tracking entites over time, Alexandria Workshop, Hannover, Germany, September 2014
- Self-Learning Search Engines, ABDIS 2014, Ohrid, Macedonia, September 2014
- Personalized Diversification, KDD 2014, New York, August 2014
- From Music Fandom to Artists and Back, KDD 2014 Workshop on Discovery and Curation, New York, August 2014
- Big data en academisch onderzoek, Nationale Denktank, Huizen, The Netherlands, August 2014
- Six tweets per second, SIGIR 2014 Workshop on Semantic Matching, Queensland, Australia, July 2014
- The Autonomous Search Engine, Kubrick Summer School, Rhodos, Greece, July 2014
- The Autonomous Search Engine, Paris-Saclay Center for Data Science, Paris, France, June 2014
- Smile! You’re in an experiment, Big Data: Opportunities & Pitfalls for the Social Sciences, ASCOR, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 2014
- Big data, Wetenschappelijk Raad voor het Regeringsbeleid, Den Haag, The Netherlands, June 2014
- Computer en mens, Universiteitsdag, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, May 2014
- Autonomous Search, Yahoo Research, Barcelona, Spain, May 2014
- Hoe werkt Google?, NEMO Wakker Worden, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, May 2014
- Recommendation systems, SIKS Data Science Course, Vught, The Netherlands, May 2014
- ECIR 2014, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, April 2014
- One Way, the Online Way, Keystone, Leiden, The Netherlands, March 2014
- De Autonome Zoekmachine, VOGIN-IP, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, March 2014
- Personal Data Mining, Studium Generale, Maastricht, The Netherlands, March 2014
- The State of IR, IvI Seminar, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, March 2014
2013
- Muziek ontdekken, Vossius, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, December 2013
- Three stories on aggregated search, Cambridge, UK, November 2013
- Zoektechnologie, Themadagen Digital Opsporing, Lunteren, The Netherlands, November 2013
- Streamwatchr, ICT.2013, Vilnius, Lithuania, November 2013
- Big data, DSRC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, October 2013
- Big data en het voorspellen van online gedrag, SWR, Leusden, The Netherlands, September 2013
- RepLab 2013+2014, Valencia, Spain, September 2013
- Over PRISM, Ad de Jonge Centrum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 2013
- Evaluation, Granada, Spain, September 2013
- xTAS, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, August 2013
- Pseudo Test Collections for Training and Tuning Microblog Rankers, SIGIR, Dublin, Ireland, July 2013
- Click Models, Sapporo, Japan, July 2013
- Evaluating Reputation Analysis Systems, Barcelona, Spain, June 2013
- Your Life, Enschede, The Netherlands, June 2013
- Mining Big Data, Wassenaar, The Netherlands, April 2013
- Reputation Analysis, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, April 2013
- ECIR 2014 in Amsterdam, Moscow, Russia, March 2013
- CLEF Labs at the University of Amsterdam, Moscow, Russia, March 2013
- Information retrieval at the University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, March 2013
- Life Mining, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, March 2013
- xTAS, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, March 2013
- QuaMerDes, Utrecht, The Netherlands, February 2013
- Going social, Zurich, Switzerland, January 2013
- Why is digital humanities interesting for a computer scientist?, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, January 2013
2012
- Text Mining for Business Intelligence, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, December 2012
- Mining Your Life, Madrid, Spain, November 2012
- Social Media Signals, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, November 2012
- Semantic Analysis of Online Behavior, Den Haag, The Netherlands, November 2012
- Social Media Search, Lyon, France, October 2012
- Life Mining, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, October 2012
- Intelligent Information Access, Amsterdam, October 2012
- Music, IR and Social Media, ISMIR, Porto, Portugal, October 2012
- Life Mining, Brussels, Belgium, September 2012
- Semantic Search in E-Discovery, Den Haag, The Netherlands, September 2012
- OpenGeist: Insight in the Stream of Page Views on Wikipedia, Portland, USA, August 2012
- Proprietary Data, Portland, USA, August 2012
- Machine learning and IR, LXMLS, Lisbon, Portugal, July 2012
- From Search to Life, Leiden, The Netherlands, July 2012
- Log File Analysis, Venice, Italy, June 2012
- Twitter, Maar Dan Semantisch, Den Haag, The Netherlands, June 2012
- Semantic Twitter, Barcelona, Spain, June 2012
- Time is on our side, Padua, Italy, May 2012
- Zoeken en zo, Amersfoort, The Netherlands, May 2012
- Zoeken en zo, Amersfoort, The Netherlands, May 2012
- Information acess technologies for online reputation management, Istanbul, Turkey, May 2012
- COMMIT/ Wat het is en ervaringen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, April 2012
- Result disambiguation in web people search, Barcelona, Spain, April 2012
- Information retrieval for information services, Noordwijk, Australia, March 2012
- Session-based Query Modeling, Melbourne, Australia, February 2012
- E-Everything, Utrecht, The Netherlands, February 2012
- Big Text in Science, Den Haag, The Netherlands, February 2012
- Alles Zoekbaar, Amersfoort, The Netherlands, February 2012
- Information and language processing, Wassenaar, The Netherlands, January 2012
- Log file analysis, Zinal, Switzerland, January 2012
2011
- Interpreting human information signals, Gotheborg, December 2011
- Information retrieval for information services, The Hague, November 2011
- News and social media, Amsterdam, November 2011
- Semantic query modeling, Trondheim, October 2011
- The BRIDGE Project, Amsterdam, September 2011
- Project Infiniti, Amsterdam, September 2011
- Cordoba school, Cordoba, Argentina, August 2011
- Using Linked Open Data for Understanding Queries (and Other Short Text Segments), SIGIR Workshop on Qery Modeling and Understanding, SIGIR, Beijing, China, July 2011
- Adapting Rankers Online, Yandex, Moscow, June 2011
- Adapting Rankers Online, IRF Symposium, Vienna, May 2011
- News and Social Media, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, May 2011
- Semantifying Email Search E-Discovery Symposium, May 2011
- Emotions, Experiences and Social Media, W3C workshop, Pisa, April 2011
- Zoeken in social media, Amsterdam, March 2011
- Semantic search, Amsterdam, March 2011
- ISLA and eScience, Amsterdam, February 2011
- ILPS: Information and language processing systems, Amsterdam, February 2011
- Evaluation metrics and methodologies, Berlin, January 2011
- Information retrieval for information services, Utrecht, January 2011
- Informatie & Betekenis in Beeld, Tekst en Redeneren, Amsterdam, January 2011
2010
- Het web als graadmeter, Nyenrode, November 2010
- On the evaluation of entity profiles, CLEF, Padua, September 2010
- The future of social media, Picnic, Amsterdam, September 2010
- Sentimental About People, WePS, Padua, September 2010
- Simulating Searches from Transaction Logs, SIGIR, Geneva, July 2010
- Mining: Van data naar sociale data, ICS, Beetsterzwaag, July 2010
- Successful proposals, NWO, Den Haag, June 2010
- Social Media Analysis and Retrieval Technologies, Meta-Net, Berlin, June 2010
- Machine translation for queries, GALATEAS, Grenoble, April 2010
- The University of Amsterdam Team, GALATEAS, Grenoble, April 2010
- Text Mining and Collective Intelligence, AUC, Amsterdam, April 2010
- Waarzeggen met het web, ICTDelta, Utrecht, March 2010
- Analyse van Open Bronnen, KLPD, Driebergen, February 2010