CIIR Director Bruce Croft and Assistant Professor Hamed Zamani each received Best Paper Awards at the 29th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2020) held virtually in October 2020.
The CIKM 2020 Best... more
CIIR Director Bruce Croft and Assistant Professor Hamed Zamani each received Best Paper Awards at the 29th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2020) held virtually in October 2020.
The CIKM 2020 Best... more
The Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval (CIIR) announces a new CIIR Talk Series that will bring in researchers and practitioners to speak about their work on IR and related disciplines.... more
CICS Distinguished Professor and CIIR Director Bruce Croft was selected as an inaugural inductee to the ACM SIGIR Academy. According to the ACM SIGIR, this award honors and recognizes researchers "who have made significant, cumulative... more
Hamed Zamani (Ph.D. 2019) joins the CIIR at UMass Amherst College of Information and Computer Sciences (CICS) as tenure track Assistant Professor in Computer Science in Fall 2020.... more
CIIR co-Director James Allan, CICS professor and chair of the faculty, received a 2019 Amazon Research Award for research on Explanation of... more