SIGIR 2024 will host a workshop to explore challenges in information retrieval system development to help understand climate impact. The evidence base for observed climate impacts is expanding, and the wider climate literature is growing exponentially. Systematic reviews and systematic maps offer structured ways to collectively identify and describe this evidence while maintaining transparency, attempting…
Now is the Time to Invest in AI Infrastructure
(This is an automatically generated translated version of an op-ed that appears in De Volkskrant on January 18, 2024, by Geert-Jan Houben (TU Delft), Kees van der Klauw (NLAIC), Maarten de Rijke (University of Amsterdam), Cees Snoek (University of Amsterdam), and Ronald Stolk (University of Groningen).) In order not to lose the battle for generative…
Without Investments, AI Will Remain Science Fiction Here
Since generative AI entered into the public sphere, about a year ago, developments have been rapid on the other side of the ocean – with everything that entails. Can the Netherlands lead the way to develop AI based on European values? Read this opinion piece by Max Welling, Cees Snoek, and Maarten de Rijke in…
Digital Sovereignty and the Parliamentary Elections
(This is a slightly edited automatic translation of an opinion piece that originally appeared on November 18, 2023 on the ICAI web site.) Inequality and social security play a major role in the run-up to the House of Representatives elections. This special emphasis leads to navel gazing: the Netherlands is “closing the curtains” according to NRC. Navel gazing also…
Postdoc Vacancy on Trustworthy AI-Based Systems for Sustainable Growth
Are you interested in making contributions to trustworthy AI-based systems and in understanding and uncovering policy implications of such systems? We are seeking a postdoc to join our team, someone who is keen to contribute to the development of trustworthy machine learning systems and to translating algorithmic advances and challenges in machine learning for policy…
Two Fully-funded PhD Positions in Recommendation and Search
Come and join me to work as a PhD student! We invite applications for two fully funded, four-year PhD positions: Both of these positions are part of academic-industrial collaborations that make up the national Innovation Center for AI (ICAI). The first position is in the TAIM lab, a collaborative research lab with RTL, Maastricht University,…
Two PhD Positions in Conversational AI
Come and join us to work on algorithmic solutions to challenges in conversational intelligence! We invite applications for two fully-funded, four-year PhD positions on conversational AI. One position is aimed at making neural networks for conversational agents more efficient, and the second is aimed at generating synthetic data for training conversational agents. To find out…
Postdoc/PhD Student Position in Fairness-Aware Learning to Rank for Algorithmic Hiring
Andrew Yates and I are looking for a postdoc or PhD student to join us on the FINDHR project. Algorithmic hiring is on the rise and rapidly becoming necessary in some sectors, yet the systems for algorithmic hiring run the risk of reproducing and amplifying discriminatory biases. FINDHR is an interdisciplinary EU project that seeks…
Two postdoc positions
We have two postdoc positions: A one year postdoc position in information retrieval; see the official announcement. Deadline: June 15, 2022. A three year postdoc position in data management and machine learning in e-commerce, to work with our AIRLab team; see the official announcement. Deadline: June 30, 2022. If you’d like to know more about…
Tutorial at ESSIR 2022
Romain Deffayet and I will be teaching a tutorial at ESSIR 2022, the European Summer School on Information Retrieval, on Tuesday July 19, 09:00-10:30, a few days after SIGIR 2022, giving you enough time to recover and make the transition from Madrid to Lisbon. Our tutorial is entitled User Models and Interactive IR. The tutorial…