34th European Conference on Information Retrieval

Mentoring Programme

ECIR 2012 is offering a mentoring program, which aims to help students networking with senior researchers during the conference by linking them up with appropriate people beforehand.

Students

Each student attending the conference will be assigned a senior researcher to discuss his or her PhD work/research/paper. All students with a paper, poster, or demo will be automatically assigned a mentor. Feel free to contact Mounia Lalmas at mounia@acm.org to discuss any particular request in terms of topics you wish to discuss with your mentor.

Any other students attending ECIR 2012 may also request for a mentor. Students that do not have a paper, poster or demo, should sent an email to mounia@acm.org with their name, institution, and an abstract of their PhD work (300 words maximum), so that appropriate mentors are assigned to them. Requests should be sent at the latest by 18 March 2012.

Mentors

If you are attending ECIR 2012, and would like to be mentor, please drop an email to Mounia Lalmas at mounia@acm.org.

Mentors will have read the student paper, poster, demo, or abstract before the conference, which will be sent to them before the conference. Mentors and students will make contact at some point during the conference, so that to arrange for a meeting time to discuss the student research interests. Mentors will provide feedback on the student paper/PhD topic during one of the various coffee breaks and social events. Students may also have specific research issues that they wish to discuss.

Any question, please send an email to Mounia Lalmas at mounia@acm.org.

Mentor List

• Massih Amini, Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris 6
• Krisztian Balog, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
• Alvaro Barreiro, Universidade da Coruña
• Roi Blanco, Yahoo! Research
• Berkant Cambazoglu, Yahoo! Research
• Paul Clough, University of Sheffield
• Fabio Crestani, University of Lugano
• Maarten de Rijke, University of Amsterdam
• Arjen de Vries, CWI and Delft University of Technology
• Kareem Derwish, Qatar Computing Research Institute
• David Elsweiler, University of Regensburg
• Eric Gaussier, Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble
• Gene Golovchinsky, FX Palo Alto Laboratory
• Antoni Gulli, Microsoft Bing
• David Harper, Google
• Peter Ingwersen, Royal School of Library and Information Science
• Alejandro Jaimes, Yahoo! Research
• Gareth Jones, Dublin City University
• Jaap Kamps, University of Amsterdam
• Evangelos Kanoulas, Google
• Jussi Karlgren, Gavagai
• Udo Kruschwitz, University of Essex
• Birger Larsen, Royal School of Library and Information Science
• David Losada, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
• Benjamin Piwowarski, LIP6/CNRS
• Andreas Rauber, Vienna University of Technology
• Stephen Robertson, Microsoft Research
• Markus Schedl, Johannes Kepler University
• Fabrizio Silvestri, ISTI - CNR
• Elaine Toms, University of Sheffiled
• Thanh Tran, AIFB
• Jun Wang, UCL
• ChengXiang Zhai, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Dell Zhang, Birkbeck, University of London