General chairs

✖ Jaap Kamps, University of Amsterdam
✖ Evangelos Kanoulas, University of Amsterdam
✖ Maarten de Rijke, University of Amsterdam

PC chairs

✖ Emine Yilmaz, University College London
✖ Hui Fang, University of Delaware

Short paper chairs

✖ Christina Lioma, University of Copenhagen
✖ Katja Hofmann, Microsoft

Area Chairs

IR Track:

✖ Peter Bruza,   Queensland University of Technology 
✖ Lynda Tamine Lechani,  Paul Sabatier University 

HCI Track:

✖ Diane Kelly, University of Tennessee at Knoxville 

ML Track: 

✖ Qiaozhu Mei,  University of Michigan 
✖ Alessandro Sordoni,   Microsoft Research 

NLP Track: 

✖ Alessandro Moschetti, Université de Trento

Perception Track: 

✖ Maria Eskevich, Radbound University
✖ Stefan Rueger, The Open University  

Workshops chair

✖ Grace Hui Yang, Georgetown University 

Tutorials chair

✖ Josiane Mothe, Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse 

Publicity chair

✖ Julia Kiseleva, University of Amsterdam & UserSat.com

Sponsorship chairs

✖ Rianne Kaptein, Crunchr
✖ Esther Smit, University of Amsterdam

Local organizers

✖ Hosein Azarbonyad, University of Amsterdam
✖ Dan Li, University of Amsterdam
✖ Christophe Van Gysel, University of Amsterdam