Helia Hashemi named Bloomberg Fellow

CIIR doctoral student Helia Hashemi received a 2021-2022 Bloomberg Data Science PhD Fellowship. Hashemi, advised by Distinguished Professor Emeritus Bruce Croft, is one of nine Fellows selected by Bloomberg this year. Her research interests are in the areas of information retrieval (IR), machine learning, and natural language processing, with a recent focus on conversational information seeking and neural representation learning for IR.