CIIR Talks Archive

The CIIR Talk Series, hosted by CIIR Associate Director Hamed Zamani, is an initiative started in Fall 2020 for researchers and practitioners working on information retrieval and related disciplines to present their work. Visit the CIIR Talk Series YouTube Channel to view prior talks.

CIIR Talks Archive

Arman Cohan Assistant Professor Yale University Piecing the Puzzle: Language Models for Multi-Document Contexts Apr 19, 2024
Paul Bennett Director of Research on LLMs Spotify Toward AI-Powered Next Generation Personalized Experiences Apr 12, 2024
Qiaozhu Mei Professor University of Michigan Beyond the Behavioral Turing Test: Initial Steps Towards an AI Behavioral Science Mar 29, 2024 YouTube
Faegheh Hasibi Assistant Professor Radboud University Conversation Personalization: From Data Collection to Response Generation Mar 8, 2024 YouTube
Longqi Yang Principal Applied Research Manager Microsoft Transform Work with AI: From Graphs to LLMs Dec 15, 2023 YouTube
Hanna Hajishirzi Associate Professor University of Washington Open Language Model (OLMo): The science of Language models and language models for science Nov 17, 2023 YouTube
Sean MacAvaney Lecturer University of Glasgow Re-Thinking Re-Ranking Oct 20, 2023
Mohammad Aliannejadi Assistant Professor University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Data Augmentation and User Simulation using Large Language Models Oct 6, 2023 YouTube
Raymond J. Mooney Professor University of Texas at Austin Answering Why Questions about Narrative Text Sep 15, 2023 YouTube
Charles Clarke Professor University of Waterloo Evaluation by Maximum Similarity to an Ideal Ranking May 12, 2023 YouTube
Jiqun Liu Assistant Professor University of Oklahoma Understanding and Supporting Boundedly Rational Users in Intelligent Information Retrieval Apr 28, 2023 YouTube
Ismini Lourentzou Assistant Professor Virginia Tech Robust Visual Understanding with Limited Supervision Mar 24, 2023 YouTube
Carsten Eickhoff Professor University of Tübingen Uncertainty in Information Retrieval? Feb 17, 2023 YouTube
Maarten de Rijke Distinguished University Professor University of Amsterdam The Power of Repeat Dec 9, 2022 YouTube
Jason Weston Research Scientist Meta AI A journey from ML and NNs to NLP and Beyond: Just more of the same isn't enough? Nov 18, 2022
Niranjan Balasubramanian Assistant Professor Stony Brook University What ails multihop QA and how to fix it Oct 28, 2022 YouTube
Ellen Voorhees NIST Fellow US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Coopetitions for IR Evaluation Oct 14, 2022 YouTube
Rodrigo Nogueira Research Scientist and Adjunct Professor NeuralMind and UNICAMP Brazil Computational Tradeoffs in the Age of Neural Information Retrieval Sep 30, 2022 YouTube
Mostafa Dehghani Research Scientist Google Brain Universal Models for Language and Beyond Sep 16, 2022 YouTube
James Caverlee Professor Texas A&M University Interaction Modeling and Fairness in Recommendation Apr 22, 2022 YouTube
Michael Bendersky Senior Staff Software Engineer Google Neural Models for Learning To Rank Mar 25, 2022 YouTube
Ebrahim Bagheri Professor Ryerson University Gender-related Disparities in Ad Hoc Neural Rankers Mar 11, 2022 YouTube
Marti Hearst Professor and Head of School of Information University of California, Berkeley Integrating NLP into Information-Centric User Interfaces Feb 25, 2022 YouTube
Eugene Agichtein Professor Emory University User Intent Prediction for Conversational Intelligent Assistants Feb 11, 2022
Urvashi Khandelwal Research Scientist Google AI Generalization through Memorization Jan 14, 2022 YouTube
Filip Radlinski Research Scientist Google, UK Challenges with Really Understanding Natural Language in Conversational Recommendation Dec 17, 2021
Emine Yilmaz Professor and Turing Fellow University College London Research Challenges in Devising the Next Generation Information Retrieval and Access Systems Nov 19, 2021 YouTube
Chirag Shah Associate Professor, Information School University of Washington Can Large Scale Search Ever Be Fair, Unbiased, and Transparent? Nov 5, 2021 YouTube
Rosie Jones Director of Research in Language Technologies Spotify Listening to Our Listeners: Podcast Content Understanding for Search and Recommendation Oct 22, 2021
Harrie Oosterhuis Assistant Professor Radboud University Recent advances in unbiased learning to rank from position-biased click feedback Oct 8, 2021 YouTube
Vanessa Murdock Applied Science Manager Amazon Alexa Shopping Research May 7, 2021
Asia J. Biega Tenure-Track Faculty Max-Planck Institute Operationalizing legal and societal constraints in information access systems Apr 23, 2021 YouTube
Claudia Hauff Associate Professor TU Delft, The Netherlands On the support of human learning during search and sensemaking activities Apr 9, 2021 YouTube
Yongfeng Zhang Assistant Professor Rutgers University Explainable Human-centered AI Mar 26, 2021 YouTube
Bhaskar Mitra Principal Applied Scientist Microsoft Neural Information Retrieval: In search of meaningful progress Mar 12, 2021 YouTube
Laura Dietz Assistant Professor University of New Hampshire Retrieve-and-generate: How to Automatically Create Relevant Articles Feb 26, 2021 YouTube
Kyunghyun Cho Associate Professor New York University Online Hyperparameter Optimization by Real-time Recurrent Learning Feb 12, 2021 YouTube
Krisztian Balog Professor University of Stavanger, Norway What Does Conversational Information Access Exactly Mean and How to Evaluate It? Jan 15, 2021 YouTube
Fernando Diaz Research Scientist Google Brain Montréal Evaluating Stochastic Rankings with Expected Exposure Dec 18, 2020
Susan Dumais Technical Fellow and Director Microsoft Research Labs in New England, New York City and Montréal The Potential for Personalization in Search Dec 4, 2020 YouTube
Evangelos Kanoulas Professor University of Amsterdam From sessions to conversations and back again Nov 20, 2020 YouTube
Leif Azzopardi Associate Professor University of Strathclyde, Scotland Modelling and Measuring Information-Interactions Nov 6, 2020 YouTube
Donald Metzler Senior Staff Software Engineer Google Challenges in Personal Search and Intelligence Oct 23, 2020 YouTube
Grace Hui Yang Associate Professor Georgetown University Corpus-Level End-to-End Exploration for Interactive Systems Oct 9, 2020 YouTube