The WI group interests lie in the areas of information retrieval, data mining, and machine learning. The group also focus on user engagement, personalisation, inferring users interests and recommendation based on users histories and contents they have visited in the Web.

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To accelerate the process of fact checking and online misinformation detection, one approach is to exert the advantage of crowdsourcing and analyze

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We are delighted that Xiao won the best student paper award at the ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory
Xi Wang has joined as a Postdoctoral Researcher in the WI group. He will be supervised by Prof. Emine Yilmaz. He has recently completed his
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Procheta Sen has joined as a Postdoctoral Researcher in the WI group. She will be supervised by Prof. Emine Yilmaz. She
Prof. Emine Yilmaz presented her talk on "Research Challenges in Devising the Next Generation Information Retrieval and Access Systems" along
Dr. Aldo Lipani will present their recent work in collaboration with Ben Carterette and Emine Yilmaz on Evaluation of Conversational
Ruizhe
Ruizhe Li joins the WI group as a Postdoc researcher, and will be supervised by Prof. Emine Yilmaz. His research
Danny Toeun Kim joins the WI group as an undergraduate research student, and will be supervised by Dr. Aldo Lipani.
jerome-ramos
Jerome Ramos joins the WI group as a PhD student, and will be supervised by Dr. Aldo Lipani. His research
Xiao-Fu
Xiao Fu joins the WI group as a PhD student, supervised by Dr. Aldo Lipani. His research interests lie in
Hossein A. Rahmani
Hossein A. Rahmani (aka Saeed) joins the WI group as a Visiting Researcher. He will be supervised by Prof. Emine Yilmaz