Student Supervision
In the past, I supervised the following students.
- 2021 – 2021 – Astrid Weijs, MSc AI VU, Breaking the Filter Bubble
- 2019 – 2020 – Henning Bartsch, MSc AI UvA. Neural Recommendation. Co-supervised with Lucas de Haas, Joris Baan, and Maartje ter Hoeve.
- 2019 – 2020 – 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:
Do News Consumers Want Explanations for Personalized News Rankings?. In: FATREC 2017, Como, Italy, 2017. - 2015 – 2016 – Jeffrey Kuiken, BSc IK UvA, bachelor thesis, Effective Headlines of Newspaper Articles in a Digital Environment.
We published the following paper:
Effective Headlines of Newspaper Articles in a Digital Environment. In: Digital Journalism, vol. 0, no. 0, pp. 1-15, 2017. - 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:
Probabilistic Multileave Gradient Descent. In: Proceedings of ECIR, Springer, 2016.
Multileave Gradient Descent for Fast Online Learning to Rank. In: Proceedings of WSDM, ACM, 2016. - 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:
Sustainable Questions. In: SIGIR 2012 Workshop on Time-aware Information Access, 2012.
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:
Probabilistic Multileave for Online Retrieval Evaluation. In: Proceedings of SIGIR, 2015.
- 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