Officers and Volunteers

SIGIR Officers

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

Nicola Ferro, SIGIR Chair
Università degli Studi di Padova
Padova, Italy
chair_SIGIR@acm.org

Yi Zhang, SIGIR Vice Chair
University of California, Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, CA, USA
vc_SIGIR@acm.org

Bhaskar Mitra, SIGIR Secretary
Montreal, Canada
secretary_SIGIR@acm.org

Chirag Shah, SIGIR Treasurer
University of Washington
Seattle, WA, USA
treasurer_SIGIR@acm.org

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

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

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

Keping Bi, SIGIR Forum Co-Editor
Institute of Computing Technology (ICT)
Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing, China
editors_SIGIR@acm.org

J. Shane Culpepper, SIGIR Forum Co-Editor
School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
editors_SIGIR@acm.org

Jiqun Liu, SIGIR Forum Co-Editor
University of Oklahoma, Norman (OK), USA
editors_SIGIR@acm.org

Information Director

Joel MacKenzie, 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

Joonseok Lee, Student Travel Award Chair
Seoul National University, Republic of Korea

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

Historian

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

ACM

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