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:
Jeffrey Kuiken (2015 – 2016)
- Degree: BSc IK UvA
- Company: Blendle
- Topic: Effective Headlines of Newspaper Articles in a Digital Environment
- Publications:
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:
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
- 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.
- Years: 2014-2015
- Lecture on “Online Evaluation” (slides)
- Lecture on “Online Learning”
- Projects on “Multileaved Comparison Methods”
- Year: 2013-2014
- Lecture 7 on “Online Learning to Rank” (slides)
WIP Profile Projects
Language Models