Students

Thilina Rajapakse (2023)

  • Degree: PhD Student UvA
  • Company: Spotify
  • Topic: LLMs for Search
  • Co-supervisor: Claudia Hauff

Samarth Bhargav (2022 - 2023)

  • Degree: PhD Student UvA
  • Company: Spotify
  • Topic: Tip of the tong queries
  • Co-supervisor: Claudia Hauff

Astrid Weijs (2021)

  • Degree: MSc AI VU
  • Company: DPG Media
  • Topic: Breaking the Filter Bubble

Henning Bartsch (2019 – 2020)

  • Degree: MSc AI UvA
  • Company: DPG Media
  • Topic: Neural Recommendation
  • Co-supervisors: Lucas de Haas, Joris Baan, Maartje ter Hoeve

Tom Sweers (2019 – 2020)

  • Degree: MSc CS RU
  • Company: DPG Media
  • Topic: Timing Push
  • Co-supervisor: Lucas de Haas

David Vos (2019)

  • Degree: BSc AI UvA
  • Company: DPG Media
  • Topic: Personalized Weekly Newsletters
  • Co-supervisors: Lucas de Haas, Harrie Oosterhuis

Joris Baan (2018 – 2019)

  • Degree: MSc AI UvA
  • Company: DPG Media
  • Topic: Explaining Summarization
  • Co-supervisors: Marlies van der Wees, Maartje ter Hoeve, Maarten de Rijke

Chia-Lun Yeh (2018 – 2019)

  • Degree: MSc AI TU Delft
  • Company: DPG Media
  • Topic: Bias Detection
  • Co-supervisors: Babak Loni, Nava Tintarev

Maartje ter Hoeve (2017 – 2018)

Jeffrey Kuiken (2015 – 2016)

Claudia Minardi (2015 – 2016)

  • Degree: MSc AI VU
  • Topic: Master thesis

Harrie Oosterhuis (2014 – 2016)

Spyros Michaelides (2014 – 2015)

  • Degree: MSc AI
  • Topic: Comparing Living Labs with Lerot

George-Viorel Visniuc (2013 – 2014)

  • Degree: MSc AI
  • Topic: Understanding User Behavior through Search Log Analysis

Hanne Nijhuis (2012 – 2013)

  • Degree: MSc AI
  • Topic: Active Online Learning to Rank for IR

Bart de Goede (2011 – 2012)

  • Degree: MSc IK
  • Topic: Sustainable Questions
  • Publications:
    • de Goede, B., Schuth, A., de Rijke, M. Sustainable Questions In Proceedings of SIGIR’12 Workshop on Time-aware Information Access, 2012.

Courses and Tutorials

LiLa 2016: ECIR 2016 Tutorial

Information Retrieval 2 (Curriculum Master Artificial Intelligence)

  • Years: 2014-2015
  • Project on “Online Learning to Rank”
  • Publication:
    • Anne Schuth, Robert-Jan Bruintjes, Fritjof Büttner, Joost van Doorn, Carla Groenland, Harrie Oosterhuis, Cong-Nguyen Tran, Bas Veeling, Jos van der Velde, Roger Wechsler, David Woudenberg, 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

Advanced Information Retrieval

  • Year: 2011-2012

Language Models

  • Year: 2009-2010