Organizing Committee
General Co-Chairs :
- Wei-Ying Ma, Microsoft Research Asia, China
- Jian-Yun Nie, University of Montreal,Canada
Program Co-Chairs :
- Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Yahoo! Research, Spain
- Tat-Seng Chua, National University of Singapore
- W. Bruce Croft, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA
Posters and Demos Co-Chairs :
- Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Microsoft Research, USA
- Gary Geunbae Lee, POSTECH, Korea
- Massimo Melucci, University of Padua, Italy
Tutorial Chair :
- Yi Zhang, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
Workshop Co-Chairs :
- Noriko Kando, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
- Luo Si, Purdue University, USA
Mentor Chair :
- Gareth Jones, Dublin City University, Ireland
Outstanding Paper Award Chair :
- Susan Dumais, Microsoft Research, USA
Doctoral Consortium Co-Chairs :
- Marteen de Rijke, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
- Paul Thomas, CSIRO, Australia
Industrial Track Co-Chairs :
- David Carmel, IBM Research, Haifa, Israel
- Haifeng Wang, Baidu, China
Sponsorship Chair :
- Jimmy Huang, York University, Canada
Publicity Chair :
- Kam-Fai Wong, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
Local Organization Chair :
- Xiaoming Li, Peking University, China
Finance Chair :
- Hang Li, Microsoft Research Asia, China
Chair of Coordination with Local Societies :
- Sheng Li, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Proceedings Chair :
- Zaiqing Nie, Microsoft Research Asia, China
Conference Arrangements :
- Racemind, China
