Women in IR was co-founded by Laura Dietz and Shiri Dori-Hacohen in 2015.
The group is currently headed by Gabriella Pasi.
Meet the women behind Women in IR!


WIR Organizing Committee


Gabriella Pasi
University of Milano-Bicocca

Faegheh Hasibi
Radboud University

Maria Maistro
University of Copenhagen

Emine Yilmaz
University College London

[co]Chair (2019 - 2024); ex-Chair (2025)


Nazli Goharian
Clinical Professor of Computer Science, Georgetown University
Associate Director, Information Retrieval Lab


Co-chair (2021)


Hannah Bast
Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Freiburg
Head, Chair of Algorithms and Data Structures


Co-chair (2019 - 2020)


Suzan Verberne
Professor, Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science
Group Leader, Text Mining and Retrieval Leiden


Co-founder & Co-organizer (2015 - 2018)


Laura Dietz
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science
University of New Hampshire


Co-founder & Co-organizer (2015 - 2016)


Shiri Dori-Hacohen
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Connecticut
Founder & Chair of the Board, AuCoDe


Webmaster (2020 - Present)


Sudeshna Das
Postdoctoral Fellow
Emory University


Past Volunteers


Myung-ha Jang
PhD Candidate
CIIR, University of Massachusetts Amherst


Elinor Brondwine
MSc Student
Technion