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Five of the six CIIR students who completed their Ph.D.s within the past year returned to campus to participate in the UMass Amherst campus graduation ceremony on May 16, 2025. Pictured left to right: Shahrzad Naseri, Zhiqi Huang, Puxuan Yu,… more

For over a decade, leaders in the Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval (CIIR) have been instrumental in shaping the direction and identity of the International Conference on I… more

During the February 2025 Computing Research Association (CRA) Board of Directors meeting, CIIR Director James Allan was elected Chair of the CRA Board of… more

CIIR Associate Director and CICS Associate Professor Hamed Zamani was selected for an ACM SIGIR Awards Chair position for a three-year term.  Zamani and co-chair Mark Sanderson (RMIT; former CIIR Postdoc) are coordinating the awards for… more