Recent IRLab Doctoral Graduates



  Niranjan Balasubramanian
September 2011
"Query Dependent Selection of Retrieval Alternatives"
University of Washington

  Xing Yi
September 2011
"Discovering and Using Implicit Data for Information Retrieval"
Yahoo! Labs

  Jangwon Seo
September 2011
"Search Using Social Media Structures"
Google, Inc.

  Benjamin Carterette
September 2008
"Low-cost and Robust Evaluation of Information Retrieval Systems"
University of Delaware

  Mark Smucker
September 2008
"Navigating Document Networks"
University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

  Ao Feng
September 2008
"Incident Threading in News"
Amazon.com, Washington

  Giridhar Kumaran
May 2008
"Efficient User Interaction In Information Retrieval"
Microsoft Live Labs, Washington

  Trevor Strohman
February 2008
"Efficient Processing of Complex Features for Information Retrieval"
Google, Inc., California

  Fernando Diaz
February 2008
"Regularizing Query-Based Retrieval Scores"
Yahoo!, Montreal, Canada

  Xiaoyong Liu
February 2008
"Cluster-Based Retrieval from the Language Modeling Perspective"
Hewlett Packard, Connecticut

  Yun Zhou
February 2008
"Predicting Retrieval Performance"
Google, California

  Ron Bekkerman
February 2008
"Combinatorial Markov Random Fields and their Applications to Information Organization"
Hewlett Packard Labs, California

  Donald Metzler
September 2007
"Effectively Modeling Term Dependencies in Information Retrieval"
Yahoo! Research, California

  Jiwoon Jeon
September 2007
"Searching Question and Answer Archives"
Google, California

  Xing Wei
September 2007
"Topic Models in Information Retrieval"
Yahoo!, California

  Hema Raghavan
May 2007
"Tandem Learning: Learning on Both Features and Instances for Text"
Yahoo! Applied Research, California