CIIR alums Don Metzler (Google DeepMind) and Chirag Shah (Univ. of Washington) were elected to the 2025 Class of the ACM SIGIR Academy. They, along with the other 4 inductees, were celebrated during the SIGIR 2025 conference in Italy. According to SIGIR, "inductees to the SIGIR Academy are the principal leaders in IR, whose efforts have shaped the discipline and/or industry through significant research, innovation, and/or service."
