Students and Trainees

I (co-)supervised the following students and trainees. Many of them were interns, with some we published a paper. If you are interested in internships, feel free to reach out!

Renate Burema (2024 - 2025)

Program: Intern
Host company: Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations
Topic: LLMs Benchmarks for The Netherlands
Co-supervisor: Christopher Spelt

Guusje Juijn (2024)

Program: Rijks I-Trainee
Host company: Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations
Co-supervisor: Christopher Spelt

Thilina Rajapakse (2023)

Degree: PhD Student at the University of Amsterdam
Host company: Spotify
Topic: LLMs for Search
Co-supervisor: Claudia Hauff

Samarth Bhargav (2022 - 2023)

Degree: PhD Student at the University of Amsterdam
Host company: Spotify
Topic: Tip-of-the-Tongue Retrieval for Music
Co-supervisor: Claudia Hauff
Publications:

Astrid Weijs (2021)

Degree: MSc AI at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Host company: DPG Media
Topic: Breaking the Filter Bubble

Henning Bartsch (2019 – 2020)

Degree: MSc AI at the University of Amsterdam
Host company: DPG Media
Topic: Neural Recommendation
Co-supervisors: Lucas de Haas, Joris Baan, Maartje ter Hoeve

Tom Sweers (2019 – 2020)

Degree: MSc CS at the Radboud University Nijmegen
Host company: DPG Media
Topic: Timing Push
Co-supervisor: Lucas de Haas

David Vos (2019)

Degree: BSc AI at the University of Amsterdam
Host company: DPG Media
Topic: Personalized Weekly Newsletters
Co-supervisors: Lucas de Haas, Harrie Oosterhuis

Joris Baan (2018 – 2019)

Degree: MSc AI at the University of Amsterdam
Host company: DPG Media
Topic: Explaining Summarization
Co-supervisors: Marlies van der Wees, Maartje ter Hoeve, Maarten de Rijke
Publications:

Chia-Lun Yeh (2018 – 2019)

Degree: MSc AI at the Delft University of Technology
Host company: DPG Media
Topic: Bias Detection
Co-supervisors: Babak Loni, Nava Tintarev
Publications:

Maartje ter Hoeve (2017 – 2018)

Degree: MSc AI at the University of Amsterdam
Host company: Blendle
Topic: Explaining Rankings
Publications:

Jeffrey Kuiken (2015 – 2016)

Degree: BSc IK at the University of Amsterdam
Host company: Blendle
Topic: Effective Headlines of Newspaper Articles in a Digital Environment
Publications:

Claudia Minardi (2015 – 2016)

Degree: MSc AI at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Topic: Master thesis

Harrie Oosterhuis (2014 – 2016)

Degree: MSc AI at the University of Amsterdam
Topic: Online learning to rank (Honours program)
Publications:

Spyros Michaelides (2014 – 2015)

Degree: MSc AI at the University of Amsterdam
Topic: Comparing Living Labs with Lerot

George-Viorel Visniuc (2013 – 2014)

Degree: MSc AI at the University of Amsterdam
Topic: Understanding User Behavior through Search Log Analysis

Hanne Nijhuis (2012 – 2013)

Degree: MSc AI at the University of Amsterdam
Topic: Active Online Learning to Rank for IR

Bart de Goede (2011 – 2012)

Degree: MSc IK at the University of Amsterdam
Topic: Sustainable Questions
Publications:

  • Bart de Goede and Anne Schuth and Maarten de Rijke. Sustainable Questions. In Proceedings of SIGIR 2012 Workshop on Time-aware Information Access, 2012.

Courses and Tutorials

LiLa 2016: ECIR 2016 Tutorial

Year: 2016

Information Retrieval 2 (Curriculum Master Artificial Intelligence)

Years: 2014-2015

  • Project on “Online Learning to Rank”

Publications:

  • Anne Schuth and Robert-Jan Bruintjes and Fritjof Büttner and Joost van Doorn and Carla Groenland and Harrie Oosterhuis and Cong-Nguyen Tran and Bas Veeling and Jos van der Velde and Roger Wechsler and David Woudenberg and Maarten de Rijke. Probabilistic Multileave for Online Retrieval Evaluation. In Proceedings of SIGIR’15, 2015.

Information Retrieval 1 (Curriculum Master Artificial Intelligence)

Years: 2014-2015

  • Lecture on “Online Evaluation” (slides)
  • Lecture on “Online Learning”
  • Projects on “Multileaved Comparison Methods”

Information Retrieval (Curriculum Master Artificial Intelligence)

Year: 2013-2014

  • Lecture 7 on “Online Learning to Rank” (slides)

WIP Profile Projects

Year: 2012-2013

Advanced Information Retrieval

Year: 2011-2012

Language Models

Year: 2009-2010