Community engagement and professional service
Conference chairing
- IR for Good Chair, ECIR, 2026
- Program Chair, SIGIR-AP, 2025
- Best Paper Chair, SIGIR-AP, 2024
- Resource & Reproducibility Chair, SIGIR, 2024
- Industry Chair, FIRE, 2023
- Tutorials Chair, ECIR, 2023
- PhD Symposium Chair, CIKM, 2022
- Diversity and Inclusion Scholarship Chair, CIKM, 2021
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion chair, SIGIR, 2021
- Virtual Organization chair, SIGIR, 2021
- Session chair, Deep learning in practice, Industry track, WWW, 2017
Workshop, tutorial, and shared task organization
- Shared task: Tip-of-the-Tongue track, Text REtrieval Conference (TREC), (2023-present)
- Workshop: LLM4Eval: Large Language Model for Evaluation in IR, SIGIR, July 2025
- Workshop: LLM4Eval: Large Language Model for Evaluation in IR, WSDM, March 2025
- Workshop: ReNeuIR at SIGIR 2024: The Third Workshop on Reaching Efficiency in Neural Information Retrieval, SIGIR, July 2024
- Workshop: LLM4Eval: Large Language Model for Evaluation in IR, SIGIR, July 2024
- Workshop: The Search Futures Workshop, ECIR, March 2024
- Shared task: Deep Learning track, Text REtrieval Conference (TREC), (2019-2023)
- Tutorial: Learning to Rank for Information Retrieval with Neural Networks (slides + video + hands-on lab materials), ACM SIGIR/SIGKDD Africa Summer School on Machine Learning for Data Mining and Search (AFIRM), January 2020
- Tutorial: Deep Learning for Search (slides), Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation (FIRE), December 2019
- Workshop: HIPstIR 2019: The hip “stick, sand, and paper” retreat on the future of information retrieval, (report), September 2019
- Tutorial: Neural Learning to Rank (slides), IVADO recommender systems summer school, August 2019
- Tutorial: Deep Learning for Search (slides + hands-on lab materials), ACM SIGIR/SIGKDD Africa Summer School on Machine Learning for Data Mining and Search (AFIRM), January 2019
- Shared task: Microsoft MAchine Reading COmprehension (MS MARCO) passage and document ranking leaderboards, November 2018.
- Tutorial: Neural Networks for Information Retrieval, ECIR, March 2018
- Tutorial: Neural Networks for Information Retrieval, WSDM, February 2018
- Tutorial: NN4IR: The SIGIR 2017 tutorial on Neural Networks for Information Retrieval, SIGIR, August 2017
- Workshop: Neu-IR’17: SIGIR 2017 Workshop on Neural Information Retrieval (report), SIGIR, August 2017
- Tutorial: The WSDM 2017 Tutorial on Neural Text Embeddings for Information Retrieval (slides), WSDM, February 2017
- Workshop: Neu-IR 2016: The SIGIR 2016 Workshop on Neural Information Retrieval (report), SIGIR, July 2016
Invited participation
