Officers and Volunteers

SIGIR Officers

To contact all of the officers:  exec_SIGIR@acm.org

Vanessa Murdock, SIGIR Chair
AWS AI/ML Responsible AI
Seattle, WA, USA
chair_SIGIR@acm.org

Ryen White, SIGIR Vice Chair
Microsoft Research
Redmond, WA, USA
vc_SIGIR@acm.org

Laura Dietz, SIGIR Secretary
University of New Hampshire
Durham, NH, USA
secretary_SIGIR@acm.org

Carsten Eickhoff, SIGIR Treasurer
University of Tübingen
Tübingen, Germany
treasurer_SIGIR@acm.org

Ben Carterette, SIGIR Past Chair
Spotify
New York, NY, US

SIGIR Volunteers

Academy

Yoelle Maarek, SIGIR Academy Co-chair
Technology Innovation Institute
Abu Dhabi, UAE

Marc Najork, SIGIR Academy Co-chair
Google DeepMind
California, USA
sigir-academy-award@acm.org

Awards

Mark Sanderson, SIGIR Awards Co-chair
RMIT University
Melbourne, Australia

Hamed Zamani, SIGIR Awards Co-chair
College of Information and Computer Sciences
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA, USA

Community Relations Coordinator

Bhaskar Mitra, SIGIR Community Relations Coordinator
Microsoft Research
Montreal, Canada

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Hussein Suleman, SIGIR Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Co-chair
School of IT
University of Cape Town
South Africa

Early Career Researcher Award

James Allan, SIGIR Early Career Researcher Award Chair
College of Information and Computer Sciences
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA, USA
sigir-ecr-award@acm.org

Forum Editors

Tirthankar Ghosal, SIGIR Forum Co-Editor
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States
editors_SIGIR@acm.org

Josiane Mothe, SIGIR Forum Co-Editor
Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse (IRIT) / SIG team
118, Route de Narbonne
31062 Toulouse cedex 04, France
editors_SIGIR@acm.org

Julián Urbano, SIGIR Forum Co-Editor
Delft University of Technology
Van Mourik Broekmanweg 6
2628 XE Delft, The Netherlands
editors_SIGIR@acm.org

Historian

Donna K. Harman, SIGIR Historian
Retrieval Group
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
U.S. Department of Commerce
Gaithersburg, MD, USA

Information Directors

Guido Zuccon, SIGIR Information Director
School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering
The University of Queensland
St Lucia QLD 4072, Australia
infodir_SIGIR@acm.org

Student Affairs

Qingyao Ai, SIGIR Student Affairs Co-Chair
Department of Computer Science and Technology
Tsinghua University
Beijing, 100084, China

Maria Maistro, SIGIR Student Affairs Co-Chair
Department of Computer Science
University of Copenhagen
Universitetsparken 1
2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark

Student Travel

Sole Pera, Student Travel Award Chair
Delft University of Technology
Van Mourik Broekmanweg 6
2628 XE Delft, The Netherlands

Sustainability

Tetsuya Sakai, SIGIR Sustainability Co-Chair
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Waseda University
Japan

Paul Thomas, SIGIR Sustainability Co-Chair
Microsoft Bing
Canberra, Australia

Women in IR

Gabriella Pasi, Women in IR Chair
Departimento di informatica, sistemistica e comunicazione
Universita’ degli studi di Milano
Milano, Italy

ACM

Ariel Silkett, Program Director, ACM
Association for Computing Machinery
2 Penn Plaza, Suite 701
New York, NY 10121, USA