Teaching

Student Supervision

If you’re interested in working with us, please see our page on internships and thesis projects.

In the past, I supervised the following students.

  • 2019 – now – Henning Bartsch, MSc AI UvA. Neural Recommendation. Co-supervised with Lucas de Haas, Joris Baan, and Maartje ter Hoeve.
  • 2019 – now – Tom Sweers, MSc CS RU. Timing Push. Co-supervised with Lucas de Haas.
  • 2019 – 2019 – David Vos, BSc AI UvA. Personalized Weekly Newsletters. Co-supervised with Lucas de Haas and Harrie Oosterhuis.
  • 2018 – 2019 – Joris Baan, MSc AI UvA. Explaining Summarization. Co-supervised with Marlies van der Wees, Maartje ter Hoeve, and Maarten de Rijke.
  • 2018 – 2019 – Chia-Lun Yeh, MSc AI TU Delft. Bias Detection. Co-supervised with Babak Loni, and Nava Tintarev.
  • 2017 – 2018 – Maartje ter Hoeve, MSc AI UvA. Explaining Rankings.
    We published the following paper:
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  • 2015 – 2016 – Jeffrey Kuiken, BSc IK UvA, bachelor thesis, Effective Headlines of Newspaper Articles in a Digital Environment.
    We published the following paper:
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  • 2015 – 2016 – Claudia Minardi, MSc AI VU, master thesis.
  • 2014 – 2016 – Harrie Oosterhuis, MSc AI UvA, honours program, Online learning to rank.
    We published the following papers:
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  • 2014 – 2015 – Spyros Michaelides, MSc AI, Comparing Living Labs with Lerot
  • 2013 – 2014 – George-Viorel Visniuc, MSc AI, individual course, title: Understanding User Behavior through Search Log Analysis
  • 2012 – 2013 – Hanne Nijhuis, MSc AI, individual course, title: Active Online Learning to Rank for IR
  • 2011 – 2012 – Bart de Goede, MSc IK, thesis, title: Sustainable Questions
    We published the following paper:
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Courses and Tutorials

I taught in the following courses and tutorials.

  • 2016 – LiLa 2016: ECIR 2016 Tutorial
  • 2014-2015 – Information Retrieval 2 (Curriculum Master Artificial Intelligence)
    • Project on “Online Learning to Rank”
    • We published the following paper:
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  • 2014-2015 – Information Retrieval 1 (Curriculum Master Artificial Intelligence)
    • Lecture on “Online Evaluation” (slides)
    • Lecture on “Online Learning”
    • Projects on “Multileaved Comparison Methods”
  • 2013-2014 – Information Retrieval (Curriculum Master Artificial Intelligence)
    • Lecture 7 on “Online Learning to Rank” (slides)
  • 2012-2013 – WIP Profile Projects (slides)
  • 2011-2012 – Advanced Information Retrieval
  • 2009-2010 – Language Models