General Chairs

Omar Alonso (Amazon, USA)

Ricardo Baeza-Yates (Institute for Experiential AI, Northeastern University, USA)

Tracy Holloway King (Adobe, USA)

Gianmaria Silvello (University of Padua, Italy)

Advisory Board

Maristella Agosti (University of Padua, Italy)

Ricardo Baeza-Yates (NTENT, USA; UPF, Spain; Univ. de Chile)

Bruce Croft (University of Massachusetts, USA)

J. Shane Culpepper (RMIT University, Australia)

Susan Dumais (Microsoft, USA)

Norbert Fuhr (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)

Donna Harman (NIST, USA)

Kalervo Jarvelin (University of Tampere, Finland)

Jan Pedersen (eBay, USA)

Gerhard Weikum (MPI, Germany)

Program Committee

Krisztian Balog (University of Stavanger, Norway)

B. Barla Cambazoglu (RMIT University, Australia)

Arjen de Vries (Radboud University, The Netherlands)

Laura Dietz (University of New Hampshire, USA)

Fernando Diaz (Google, USA)

Nicola Ferro (University of Padua, Italy)

Evgeniy Gabrilovich (Google, USA)

Claudia Hauff (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)

Panos Ipeirotis (New York University, USA)

Hideo Joho (University of Tsukuba, Japan)

Vasileios Kandylas (Microsoft, USA)

Emre Kiciman (Microsoft, USA)

Jaap Kamps (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

Vasileios Kandylas (Microsoft, USA)

Matthew Lease (University of Texas at Austin, USA)

Jimmy Lin (university of Waterloo, Canada)

Donald Metzler (Google, USA)

Stefano Mizzaro (University of Udine, Italy)

Yashar Moshfeghi (University of Strathclyde, UK)

Josiane Mothe (Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse, France)

Isabelle Moulinier (Thomson-Reuters, USA)

Ahmed Mourad (The University of Queensland, Australia)

Smruthi Mukund (Twitter, USA)

Jeremy Pickens (Opentext, USA)

Martin Potthast (Leipzig University, Germany)

Tony Russell-Rose (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK)

Tetsuya Sakai (Waseda University, Japan)

Ian Soboroff (NIST, USA)

Damiano Spina (RMIT University, Australia)

Paul Thomas (Microsoft, USA)

Andrew Trotman (University of Otago, Australia)

Olivier Van Laere (Apple Inc., USA)

Wouter Weerkamp (TomTom, USA)

Cong Yu (Google, USA)

Hamed Zamani (University of Massachusetts, USA)

Inclusion Chair

Maria Maistro (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)

Organization Chair

Valerie Cruz (Northeastern University, USA)