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Zamani Receives Amazon Award
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Hamed Zamani received an Amazon Research Award for “A Framework for Proactive and Collaborative AI Agents."
Grounded Reasoning Cup Team
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Alireza Salemi and Chris Samarinas were chosen for the Grounded Reasoning Cup 2026.
CIIR Talk Series
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Researchers and practitioners speak about their work on IR and related disciplines during CIIR Talk Series presentations held biweekly on Fridays.
Latest News
May 28, 2026
Hamed Zamani, CIIR Associate Director and CICS Associate Professor, received an Amazon Research Award in May 2026 for his proposal, “A Framework for Proactive and Collaborative AI Agents,”… more
May 13, 2026
The CIIR gathered on May 13, 2026 to celebrate three of the team's researchers (pictured left to right): Postdoc Haw-Shiuan Chang accepted a faculty… more
April 27, 2026
CIIR doctoral students Alireza Salemi and Chris Samarinas were selected to participate in the Grounded Reasoning Cup 2026 to be held at the Data + AI Summit (DAIS 2026) in San… more
April 24, 2026
CIIR researchers will present seven papers at the 49th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2026) in Melbourne, Australia in July. SIGIR is the premier international forum for the… more
