Teaching

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)

• Degree: MSc AI UvA
• Company: Blendle
• Topic: Explaining Rankings
• Publications:
  • Maartje ter Hoeve, Mathieu Heruer, Daan Odijk, Anne Schuth, Martijn Spitters, Ron Mulder, Nick van der Wildt, Maarten de Rijke: Do News Consumers Want Explanations for Personalized News Rankings? In Proceedings of FATREC’17, 2017.

Jeffrey Kuiken (2015 – 2016)

• Degree: BSc IK UvA
• Company: Blendle
• Topic: Effective Headlines of Newspaper Articles in a Digital Environment
• Publications:
  • Jeffrey Kuiken, Anne Schuth, Martijn Spitters, Maarten Marx: Effective Headlines of Newspaper Articles in a Digital Environment In Digital Journalism, 2017.

Claudia Minardi (2015 – 2016)

• Degree: MSc AI VU
• Topic: Master thesis

Harrie Oosterhuis (2014 – 2016)

• Degree: MSc AI UvA
• Topic: Online learning to rank (Honours program)
• Publications:
  • Harrie Oosterhuis, Anne Schuth, Maarten de Rijke Probabilistic Multileave Gradient Descent In Proceedings of ECIR’16, 2016.
  • Anne Schuth, Harrie Oosterhuis, Shimon Whiteson, Maarten de Rijke Multileave Gradient Descent for Fast Online Learning to Rank In Proceedings of WSDM’16, 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

• Year: 2016
• Link

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

• Year: 2012-2013
  • slides

Advanced Information Retrieval

• Year: 2011-2012

Language Models

• Year: 2009-2010