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CIIR alums Don Metzler (Google DeepMind) and Chirag Shah (Univ. of Washington) were elected to the 2025 Class of the ACM SIGIR Academy. They, along with the other 4 inductees, were celebrated… more

During their June 11, 2025 meeting, the UMass Board of Trustees approved the promotion of James Allan to Distinguished Professor.  Allan is the CIIR Director and the Associate Dean of Research and Engagement within the Manning College of… more

Five of the six CIIR students who completed their Ph.D.s within the past year returned to campus to participate in the UMass Amherst campus graduation ceremony on May 16, 2025. Pictured left to right: Shahrzad Naseri, Zhiqi Huang, Puxuan Yu,… more

For over a decade, leaders in the Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval (CIIR) have been instrumental in shaping the direction and identity of the International Conference on I… more