Organizing Committee

General Chairs
Shlomo Geva
Andrew Trotman

Treasurer
Alistair Moffat

Program Chairs
Peter Bruza
Charlie Clarke
Kal Jarvelin

Poster Chairs
Vanessa Murdock
Gabriella Pasi
Andrew Turpin

Demo Chair
Paul Thomas

Tutorials Chair
Falk Scholer

Workshops Chair
Jaap Kamps
Gabriella Kazai

Doctoral Consortium
J. Shane Culpepper
Grace Hui Yang

SIRIP 2014 (Industry Day)
David Hawking
Isabelle Moulinier

Sponsorship Chair
Jimmy Huang

Publications Chair
Laurianne Sitbon

Local Arrangements
Laurianne Sitbon

Publicity / Social Media
Richi Nayak
Guido Zuccon

Best Paper Chair
Mounia Lalmas


Senior Program Committee
Eugene Agichtein (Emory University)
James Allan (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Javed A. Aslam (Northeastern University)
Leif Azzopardi (University of Glasgow)
Ricardo Baeza-Yates (Yahoo Labs)
Krisztian Balog (University of Stavanger)
Nicholas J. Belkin (Rutgers, The State University of NJ)
Paul Bennett (Microsoft Research)
Jamie Callan (Carnegie Mellon University)
B. Barla Cambazoglu (Yahoo Labs)
Yi Chang (Yahoo Labs)
Kevyn Collins-Thompson (University of Michigan)
Nick Craswell (Microsoft)
Bruce Croft (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Brian D. Davison (Lehigh University)
Hui Fang (University of Delaware)
Jianfeng Gao (Microsoft Research)
Aristides Gionis (Aalto University)
Djoerd Hiemstra (University of Twente)
Jimmy Huang (York University)
Xian-Sheng Hua (Microsoft Research)
Joemon M. Jose (University of Glasgow)
Jaap Kamps (University of Amsterdam)
Gabriella Kazai (Microsoft)
Oren Kurland (Technion)
Mounia Lalmas (Yahoo Labs)
Birger Larsen (Aalborg University Copenhagen)
Matthew Lease (University of Texas at Austin)
Hang Li (Huawei Technologies)
Yoelle Maarek (Yahoo Labs)
Stéphane Marchand-Maillet (University of Geneva )
Wei Ying Ma (Microsoft Research Asia)
Massimo Melucci (University of Padua)
Alistair Moffat (University of Melbourne)
Isabelle Moulinier (Thomson Reuters)
Edleno S. Moura (UFAM)
Vanessa Murdock (Microsoft)
Jian-Yun Nie (University of Montreal)
Douglas W. Oard (University of Maryland)
Berthier Ribeiro-Neto (Google)
Mark Sanderson (RMIT University)
Falk Scholer (RMIT University)
Fabrizio Sebastiani (Italian National Council of Research)
Fabrizio Silvestri (Yahoo Labs)
Mark D. Smucker (University of Waterloo)
Dawei Song (Tianjin University and The Open University)
Jaime Teevan (Microsoft Research)
Arjen P. de Vries (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica)
William Webber (William Webber Consulting)
Ryen W. White (Microsoft Research)
Grace Hui Yang (Georgetown University)
Yiming Yang (Carnegie Mellon University)
Emine Yilmaz (University College London)
ChengXiang Zhai (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Yi Zhang (Unversity of California, Santa Cruz)
Justin Zobel (University of Melbourne)

Program Committee
Mikhail Ageev (Moscow State University)
Elif Aktolga (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Omar Alonso (Microsoft)
Ismail S Altingovde (Middle East Technical University)
Robin Aly (University of Twente)
Gianni Amati (Fondazione Ugo Bordoni)
Avi Arampatzis (Democritus University of Thrace)
Ioannis Arapakis (Yahoo Labs Barcelona)
Jaime Arguello (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Paavo Arvola (University of Tampere)
Azin Ashkan (Technicolor Labs)
Peter Bailey (Microsoft)
Niranjan Balasubramanian (University of Washington)
Hannah Bast (University of Freiburg)
Steve Beitzel (Applied Communication Sciences)
Ron Bekkerman (LinkedIn)
Michael Bendersky (Google)
Klaus Berberich (Max Planck Institute for Informatics)
Bodo Billerbeck (Microsoft)
Roi Blanco (Yahoo Labs)
Mohand Boughanem (University Paul Sabatier)
Martin Braschler (Zurich University of Applied Sciences)
Nieves R. Brisaboa (Universidade da Coruña)
Marc Bron (University of Amsterdam)
Chris Buckley (Sabir Research)
Ivan Cantador (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
Yunbo Cao (Microsoft Research Asia)
Rob Capra (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Mark Carman (Monash University)
Claudio Carpineto (Fondazione Ugo Bordoni)
Marc-Allen Cartright (Google)
James Caverlee (Texas A&M University)
Soumen Chakrabarti (IIT Bombay)
Raman Chandrasekar (ProQuest)
Kevin C. Chang (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Edgar Chavez (National University of Mexico)
Xueqi Cheng (Institute of Computing Technology, CAS)
Ye Chen (Microsoft)
Yi Chen (New Jersey Institute of Technology)
Wei Chu (Microsoft Bing)
Francisco Claude (Universidad Diego Portales)
Paul Clough (University of Sheffield)
Jack G. Conrad (Thomson Reuters)
Gordon V. Cormack (University of Waterloo)
Fabio Crestani (University of Lugano)
Shane Culpepper (RMIT University)
Ronan Cummins (University of Greenwich)
Tonya Custis (Honeywell Labs)
Na Dai (Yahoo)
Van Dang (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Kareem Darwish (Qatar Computing Research Institute)
Altigran S. da Silva (Universidade Federal do Amazonas)
Gianluca Demartini (University of Fribourg)
Thomas Demeester (Ghent University)
Shuai Ding (Google)
Debora Donato (StumbleUpon)
Zhicheng Dou (Microsoft Research)
Georges Dupret (Yahoo Labs)
Miles Efron (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Carsten Eickhoff (Delft University of Technology)
Andrea Esuli (ISTI-CNR)
Yi Fang (Santa Clara University)
Henry Feild (Endicott College)
Dennis Fetterly (Microsoft Research)
Marcus C. Fontoura (Microsoft)
Dayne Freitag (SRI International)
Ingo Frommholz (University of Bedfordshire)
Norbert Fuhr (University of Duisburg-Essen)
Atsushi Fujii (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Patrick Gallinari (Université (Pierre et Marie Curie)
Bin Gao (Microsoft Research)
Fredric Gey (University of California at Berkeley)
C. Lee Giles (Pennsylvania State University)
Nazli Goharian (Georgetown University)
Marcos Goncalves (UFMG)
Siddharth Gopal (Carnegie Mellon University)
Qi Guo (Microsoft)
Maxim Gurevich (RelateIQ)
Cathal Gurrin (Dublin City University)
Preben Hansen (University of Stockholm)
Donna Harman (NIST)
Morgan Harvey (University of Italian Switzerland)
Ahmed Hassan (Microsoft Research)
Claudia Hauff (Delft University of Technology)
Ben He (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Daqing He (University of Pittsburgh)
Jinru He (Pinterest)
Jiyin He (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica)
Qi He (LinkedIn)
Katja Hofmann (Microsoft Research)
Liangjie Hong (Yahoo Labs)
Winston H. Hsu (National Taiwan University)
Jeff Huang (Brown University)
Xuanjing Huang (Fudan University)
Samuel Huston (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Jing Jiang (Singapore Management University)
Hideo Joho (University of Tsukuba)
Noriko Kando (National Institute of Informatics)
Anitha Kannan (Microsoft Research )
Evangelos Kanoulas (Google)
Jussi Karlgren (Gavagai and KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
Enver Kayaaslan (INRIA)
Jaana Kekalainen (University of Tampere)
Diane Kelly (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Heikki Keskustalo (University of Tampere)
Weimao Ke (Drexel University)
Yubin Kim (Carnegie Mellon University)
Marijn Koolen (University of Amsterdam)
Alexander Kotov (Wayne State University)
Udo Kruschwitz (University of Essex)
Anagha Kulkarni (San Francisco State University)
Giridhar Kumaran (eBay Inc.)
Susana Ladra (University of A Coruña)
Dmitry Lagun (Emory University)
Wai Lam (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Yanyan Lan (Univ. of the Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Ray R. Larson (University of California at Berkeley)
Dawn Lawrie (Loyola University Maryland)
Chia-Jung Lee (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Gary Geunbae Lee (Postech)
Jochen L. Leidner (Thomson Reuters)
Anton Leuski (University of Southern California)
Jimmy Lin (University of Maryland)
Christina Lioma (University of Copenhagen)
Tao Li (Florida International University)
Chao Liu (Microsoft Research)
Qiaoling Liu (Emory University)
Tie-Yan Liu (Mircrosoft Research Asia)
Ting Liu (Harbin Institute of Technology)
Xiaohua Liu (University of Montreal)
Xingjie Liu (Square Inc.)
Yiqun Liu (Tsinghua University)
David Losada (University of Santiago de Compostela)
Robert W. P. Luk (The Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ.)
Yuanhua Lv (Microsoft Research)
Craig Macdonald (University of Glasgow)
Andrew MacFarlane (City University London)
Hao Ma (Microsoft Research)
Eren Manavoglu (Microsoft)
Yosi Mass (IBM Haifa Research Lab)
James Mayfield (Johns Hopkins University)
Tara M McIntosh (Google)
Paul McNamee (Johns Hopkins University)
Edgar Meij (Yahoo Labs)
Qiaozhu Mei (University of Michigan)
Mandar Mitra (Indian Statistical Institute)
Stefano Mizzaro (University of Udine)
Marie-Francine Moens (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
Alessandro Moschitti (Qatar Computing Research Institute)
Yashar Moshfeghi (University of Glasgow)
Josiane Mothe (Université de Toulouse)
Sung Hyon Myaeng (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Techology)
Gonzalo Navarro (University of Chile)
Michael L. Nelson (Old Dominion University)
Jennifer Neville (Purdue University)
Ragnar Nordlie (Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences)
Alexandros Ntoulas (Microsoft Research)
Iadh Ounis (University of Glasgow)
Laurence Park (University of Western Sydney)
Virgil Pavlu (Northeastern University)
Jan Pedersen (Microsoft)
Jian Pei (Simon Fraser University)
Raffaele Perego (CNR)
Benjamin Piwowarski (Université Pierre et Marie Curie)
Martin Potthast (University of Weimar)
Kunal Punera (RelateIQ)
Kira Radinsky (SalesPredict)
Filip Radlinski (Microsoft)
Hema Raghavan (IBM Research)
Karthik Raman (Cornell University)
Edie Rasmussen (University of British Columbia)
Soo Young Rieh (University of Michigan)
Maarten de Rijke (University of Amsterdam)
Haggai Roitman (IBM Research - Haifa)
Dmitri Roussinov (University of Strathclyde)
Rodrygo Santos (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais)
Jacques Savoy (University of Neuchatel)
Ralf Schenkel (University of Passau)
Pavel Serdyukov (Yandex)
Chirag Shah (Rutgers University)
Jialie Shen (Singapore Management University)
Milad Shokouhi (Microsoft)
Anna Shtok (Technion )
Luo Si (Purdue University)
Laurianne Sitbon (Queensland University of Technology)
Catherine L. Smith (Kent State University)
Ian Soboroff (NIST)
Aya Soffer (IBM)
Oren Somekh (Yahoo Labs Israel)
Ruihua Song (Microsoft Research Asia)
Young-In Song (Naver Corp.)
Alessandro Sperduti (University of Padova)
Julia Stoyanovich (Drexel University)
Torsten Suel (New York University)
Jian-Tao Sun (Microsoft)
Le Sun (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Idan Szpektor (Yahoo Research)
S.M.M. Tahaghoghi (Microsoft)
Qi Tian (University of Texas at San Antonio)
Anastasios Tombros (Queen Mary Univ. of London)
Frank Tompa (University of Waterloo)
Dolf Trieschnigg (University of Twente)
Manos Tsagkias (University of Amsterdam)
Theodora Tsikrika (Centre for Research and Technology Hellas)
Sarah Tyler (Google)
David Vallet (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
Olga Vechtomova (University of Waterloo)
Robert Villa (University of Sheffield)
Bin Wang (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Jian Wang (University of California at Santa Cruz)
Jun Wang (University College London)
Lidan Wang (University of Illinois)
Meng Wang (Hefei University of Technology)
Quan Wang (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Ingmar Weber (Qatar Computing Research Institute)
Wouter Weerkamp (904Labs)
Gerhard Weikum (Max Planck Institute for Informatics)
Ji-Rong Wen (Renmin University of China)
Thijs Westerveld (WizeNoze)
Max L. Wilson (University of Nottingham)
Wei Wu (Microsoft Research)
Xiaobing Xue (Twitter)
Jun Xu (Huawei Technologies)
Linjun Yang (Microsoft Research Asia)
Dawei Yin (Yahoo labs)
Xing Yi (Yahoo Labs)
Minoru Yoshida (University of Tokushima)
Xiaojun Yuan (University at Albany, SUNY)
Yisong Yue (Disney Research)
Dell Zhang (Birkbeck, University of London)
Lanbo Zhang (University of California at Santa Cruz)
Lei Zhang (Microsoft)
Min Zhang (Tsinghua University)
Le Zhao (Google)
Zheng-Jun Zha (Hefei Institute of Intelligent Machines, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Ke Zhou (University of Edinburgh)
Nivio Ziviani (Federal University of Minas Gerais)
Guido Zuccon (Queensland University of Technology)

Short Paper Committee
Jatowt Adam (Kyoto University)
M-Dyaa Albakour (University of Glasgow)
Omar Alonso (Microsoft)
Gianni Amati (Fondazione Ugo Bordoni)
Javed Aslam (Northeastern University)
Niranjan Balasubramanian (University of Washington)
Timothy Baldwin (The University of Melbourne)
Krisztian Balog (University of Stavanger)
Gerald Benoit (Harvard University)
Bodo Billerbeck (Microsoft)
Roi Blanco (Yahoo Labs)
Paolo Boldi (University degli Studi di Milano)
Gloria Bordogna (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche)
Mohand Boughanem (IRIT -University Paul Sabatier)
Emanuele Di Buccio (University of Padova)
Rui Cai (Microsoft Research)
Sylvie Calabretto (LIRIS-INSA Lyon)
Fazli Can (Bilkent University)
Annalina Caputo (University of Bari Aldo Moro)
Mark Carman (Monash University)
Ben Carterette (University of Delaware)
Marc-Allen Cartright (Google Inc.)
Alberto Barrón Cedeño (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya)
Francine Chen (FX Palo Alto Laboratory)
Bin Cui (Peking University)
Ronan Cummins (University of Greenwich)
Sally Jo Cunningham (University of Waikato)
Mariam Daoud (York University)
Kareem Darwish (Qatar Computing Research Institute)
Debora Donato (StumbleUpon)
Carsten Eickhoff (ETH Zurich)
Andrea Esuli (ISTI-CNR)
Yi Fang (Santa Clara University)
Nicola Ferro (University of Padova)
Luanne Freund (University of British Columbia)
Ingo Frommholz (University of Bedfordshire)
Patrick Gallinari (Universite Pierre et Marie Curie)
Bin Gao (Microsoft Research Asia)
Wei Gao (Qatar Computing Research Institute)
Susan Gauch (University of Arkansas)
C. Lee Giles (Pennsylvania State University)
Simon Gog (The University of Melbourne)
Ayse Goker (Robert Gordon University)
Juan Carlos Gomez (University of Newcastle)
Brigitte Grau (LIMSI-CNRS)
Cathal Gurrin (Dublin City University)
Preben Hansen (Stockholm University)
Ahmed Hassan (Microsoft Research)
Claudia Hauff (TU Delft)
Ben He (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Daqing He (University of Pittsburgh)
Andreas Henrich (University of Bamberg)
Frank Hopfgartner (Technische Universität Berlin)
Jimmy Huang (York University)
Daxin Jiang (Microsoft)
Hideo Joho (University of Tsukuba)
Rosie Jones (Microsoft)
Timothy Jones (RMIT University)
Joemon Jose (University of Glasgow)
Leszek Kaliciak (City University London)
Jaap Kamps (University of Amsterdam)
Noriko Kando (National Institute of Informatics)
Nattiya Kanhabua (L3S Research Center)
Evangelos Kanoulas (Google)
Sarvnaz Karimi (CSIRO)
Mostafa Keikha (Univ.of Massachusetts Amherst)
Diane Kelly (Univ. of North Carolina Chapel Hill)
Liadh Kelly (Dublin City University)
Donald Kraft (Colorado Technical University)
Udo Kruschwitz (University of Essex)
Giridhar Kumaran (eBay Inc.)
Birger Larsen (Aalborg University)
Victor Lavrenko (University of Edinburgh)
Lorena Leal Bando (RMIT University)
Teerapong Leelanupab (King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang)
Hui Li (Zhejiang Normal University)
Christina Lioma (University of Copenhagen)
Suzanne Little (Dublin City University)
Yuanhua Lv (Microsoft Research)
Hao Ma (Microsoft Research)
Andrew MacFarlane (City University London)
Yi Mao (Microsoft)
Takuya Maekawa (Osaka University)
Walid Magdy (Qatar Computing Research Institute)
Paul McNamee (Johns Hopkins University)
Prasenjit Majumder (Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of ICT)
Stephane Marchand-Maillet (University of Geneva)
Edgar Meij (Yahoo Labs)
Stefano Mizzaro (University of Udine)
Marie-Francine Moens (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
Alistair Moffat (The University of Melbourne)
Michael Nelson (Old Dominion University)
Jian-Yun Nie (University of Montreal)
Tae-Gil Noh (Heidelberg University)
Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio (University of Padova)
Alessandro Panconesi (University of Rome)
Virgil Pavlu (Northeastern University)
Karen Pinel-Sauvagnat (IRIT)
Tamara Polajnar (University of Cambridge)
Luca Pretto (University of Padova)
Neil O’Hare (Yahoo Labs)
Daniele Querci, (Yahoo Labs)
Filip Radlinski (Microsoft)
Prabhakar Raghavan (Google)
Edie Rasmussen (University of British Columbia)
Haggai Roitman (IBM Research Lab Haifa)
Stefan Rüger (The Open University)
Ian Ruthven (University of Strathclyde)
Jun Sakuma (University of Tsukuba)
Jangwon Seo (Google Inc.)
Jialie Shen (Singapore Management University)
Milad Shokouhi (Microsoft)
Fabrizio Silvestri (Yahoo Labs)
Mark Smucker (University of Waterloo)
Aixin Sun (Nanyang Technological University)
Mingxuan Sun (Pandora Media Inc.)
Hanna Suominen (NICTA)
S.M.M. Tahaghoghi (Microsoft)
Lynda Tamine (IRIT - University of Toulouse)
Martin Theobald (University of Antwerp)
Qi Tian (Microsoft Research)
James A. Thom (RMIT University)
Bart Thomee (Yahoo Labs)
Anastasios Tombros (Queen Mary Univ. of London)
Ricardo Torres (University of Campinas)
Dolf Trieschnigg (University of Twente)
Manos Tsagkias (University of Amsterdam)
Howard Turtle (Syracuse University)
Sebastiano Vigna (Università degli Studi di Milano)
Stephen Wan (CSIRO)
Changhu Wang (Microsoft Research)
Wouter Weerkamp (904Labs)
Xing Wei (Google Inc.)
Tak-Lam Wong (Caritas Institute of Higher Education)
Mingfang Wu (ANDS)
Yang Yang (Dublin City University)
Zheng Ye (York University)
Emine Yilmaz (University College London)
Xiaojun Yuan (University at Albany SUNY)
Zhongfei Zhang (Binghamton University)
Dong Zhou (Hunan University of Science and Technology)
Guido Zuccon (Queensland University of Technology)

Additional Paper Reviewers
Yasmin AlNoamany (Old Dominion University)
Diego Arroyuelo (Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria)
Lidong Bing (CUHK)
Björn Buchhold (University of Freiburg)
Rodrigo Tripodi Calumby (UNICAMP)
David Carmel (Yahoo! Research)
Bin Cao (Microsoft)
Michele Catasta (EPFL)
Zhiyong Cheng (Singapore Management University)
Dongho Choi (Rutgers)
Konstantinos Dimopoulos (New York University)
Elmar Haussmann (University of Freiburg)
Travis Gagie (University of Helsinki)
Mustafa Ghulam (University of Bedfordshire)
Simon Gog (The University of Melbourne)
Peter Golbus (Northeastern University)
Juan Carlos Gomez (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
Chathra Hendahewa (Rutgers)
Wei Jiang (New York University)
Bevan Koopman (CSIRO)
Sebastian Kreft (Deezer)
Hui Li (University of Hong Kong)
Cheng Li (Northeastern University)
Shangsong Liang (University of Amsterdam)
Yunzhong Liu (NJIT)
Ziad Matni (Rutgers)
Avihai Mejer (Yahoo! Research)
Pavel Metrikov (Northeastern University)
Rifat Ozcan (Turgut Ozal University)
Matthias Petri (The University of Melbourne)
Otavio Penatti (SAMSUNG)
Yuval Pinter (Yahoo! Research)
Roman Prokofyev (University of Fribourg)
Joseph J. Pfeiffer III (Purdue University)
Zhaochun Ren (University of Amsterdam)
Horacio Rodriguez (Polythecnic University of Catalunya)
Hany SalahEldeen (Old Dominion University)
Bahareh Sarrafzadeh (University of Waterloo)
Denis Savenkov (Emory University)
Diego Seco (Universidad de Concepción)
Yi Shan (NJIT)
Jameel Mohammad Shoaib (CUHK)
Alberto Tonon (University of Fribourg)
Yuri Ustinovsky (Yandex)
Chong Wang (NJIT)
Pengyuan Wang (Yahoo Labs)
Qifan Wang (Purdue University)
Zhiwei Zhang (Purdue University)
Ning Zhang (Purdue University)

Demonstrations Committee
Mikhail Ageev (Moscow State University)
Omar Alonso (Microsoft)
Leif Azzopardi (University of Glasgow)
Steve Beitzel (Applied Communication Sciences)
Peter Christen (Australian National University)
Silviu Cucerzan (Microsoft Research)
Sally Jo Cunningham (Waikato University)
Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio (University of Padua)
David Elsweiler (University of Regensburg)
Henry Field (Endicott College)
Richard Glassey (Robert Gordon University)
Morgan Harvey (University of Lugano)
Jiwoon Jeon (Google Inc.)
Hideo Joho (University of Tsukuba)
Gareth Jones (Dublin City University)
Sarvnaz Karimi (CSIRO)
Andrew Lampert (Cruxly)
Jochen Leidner (Thomson Reuters)
Johannes Leveling (Dublin City University)
Christina Lioma (University of Copenhagen)
Ilya Markov (University of Amsterdam)
Nguyen Quoc Viet Hung (EPFL)
Edie Rasmussen (University of British Columbia)
Tom Rowlands (CSIRO)
Richard Schaller (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg)
Milad Shokouhi (Microsoft Research)
Hanna Suominen (NICTA, University of Canberra
and University of Turku)
Stephen Wan (CSIRO)
Gerhard Weikum (Max Planck Institute for Informatics)
Max L Wilson (University of Nottingham)

Tutorials Committee
Carman (Monash University)
Jiyin He (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica)
Evangelos Kanoulas (Google, Inc.)
Sarvnaz Karimi (CSIRO)
Matthew Lease (University of Texas at Austin)
Stefano Mizzaro (University of Udine)
Douglas W. Oard (University of Maryland)
Laurence Park (University of Western Sydney)
Laurianne Sitbon (Queensland University of Technology)
Catherine Smith (Kent State University)
Mark Smucker (University of Waterloo)
S.M.M. Tahaghoghi (Microsoft Corporation)
Michiko Yasukawa (Gunma University)

Workshops Committee
Giambattista Amati (Fondazione Ugo Bordoni)
Leif Azzopardi (University of Glasgow)
Krisztian Balog (University of Stavanger)
Roi Blanco (Yahoo! Research)
Cathal Gurrin (Dublin City University)
Katja Hofmann (Microsoft)
Hideo Joho (University of Tsukuba)
Noriko Kando (National Institute of Informatics)
Paul Thomas (CSIRO)
Elaine Toms (University of Sheffield)
Andrew Trotman (University of Otago)
Arjen de Vries (CWI)
Justin Zobel (University of Melbourne)

Doctoral Consortium Committee
Peter Bailey (Microsoft)
Ben Carterette (University of Delaware)
Diane Kelly (University of North Carolina)
Alistair Moffat (University of Melbourne)
Mark Sanderson (RMIT University)

Doctoral Consortium Mentors
Susan Dumais (Microsoft Research)
Claudia Hauff (Delft University of Technology)
Gareth Jones ( Dublin City University)
Matthew Lease (University of Texas at Austin)
Vanessa Murdock (Microsoft)
Douglas W. Oard (University of Maryland)
Iadh Ounis (University of Glasgow)
Maarten de Rijke (University of Amsterdam)
Mark Smucker (University of Waterloo)
Paul Thomas (CSIRO)

SIRIP (Industry Day) Committee
David Carmel (Yahoo! Research)
Jeff Dalton (Google)
Ben Hachey (University of Sydney)
David Harper (Google)
Udo Kruschwitz (University of Essex)
Mounia Lalmas (Yahoo Labs)
Jan Pedersen (Microsoft)
Vassilis Plachouras (Thomson Reuters)
Tony Russell-Rose (UXLabs)
Fabrizio, Silvestri (ISTI – CNR)
Arjen de Vries (CWI)