CIIR Talk Series

The CIIR Talk Series is an initiative for researchers and practitioners working on information retrieval and related disciplines to present their work. Presentations will be held biweekly on Fridays from 1:30 - 2:30 p.m. (with some exceptions) for the Spring 2024 semester. The presentations will be online (unless noted that they are in person) and open to the public. The presentations will also be shown in CS 151 for those on the UMass Amherst campus.

Faculty Host: Hamed Zamani

To receive notifications for talks and links to the presentations, subscribe to our mailing list by sending an email to ciir-talks-request@cs.umass.edu with "subscribe" as the email subject (without the quotation marks).

You can view prior CIIR Talk Series presentations on our YouTube Channel.


Spring 2024 Schedule of Speakers

Friday - March 8, 2024 - 1:30 - 2:30 PM EST (North American Eastern Standard Time)
Talk Title: Conversation Personalization: From Data Collection to Response Generation
Speaker: Faegheh Hasibi, Radboud University, the Netherlands


Friday - March 29, 2024 - 1:30 - 2:30 PM EDT (North American Eastern Daylight Saving Time)
Talk Title: Beyond the Behavioral Turing Test: Initial Steps Towards an AI Behavioral Science
Speaker: Qiaozhu Mei, University of Michigan
Friday - April 12, 2024 - 1:30 - 2:30 PM EDT (North American Eastern Daylight Saving Time)
Talk Title: TBD
Speaker: Paul Bennett, Spotify

Friday - April 19, 2024 - 1:30 - 2:30 PM EDT (North American Eastern Daylight Saving Time)
Talk Title: TBD
Speaker: Arman Cohan, Yale University


Friday - May 10, 2024 - 1:30 - 2:30 PM EDT (North American Eastern Daylight Saving Time)
Talk Title: TBD
Speaker: Dawn Lawrie, Johns Hopkins University



Fall 2020, Spring 2021, Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Spring 2023, and Fall 2023 CIIR Talk Series Speaker Archives

https://ciir.cs.umass.edu/ciir_talks_archive