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CIIR Talk Series

Seminar series hosted by the Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval at UMass Amherst. 

CIIR Talk Series: Parisa Kordjamshidi

CIIR Talk Series: Parisa Kordjamshidi, Michigan State University
Event date Friday, March 27, 2026 Event time 1:30 pm Go to all events list Event

CIIR Talk Series: Hua Sun

CIIR Talk Series: Hua Sun, University of North Texas
Event date Friday, May 8, 2026 Event time 1:30 pm Go to all events list Event

CIIR Talk Series: Qingyao Ai (Tsinghua University), Dynamic and Parametric Retrieval Augmented Generation

For any questions about this event with the Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval (ciir.cs.umass.edu), please contact Hamed Zamani.
Event date Friday, March 14, 2025 Event time 10:30 am Go to all events list Event

CIIR Talk Series: Suzan Verberne (Leiden University), Is the Search Engine of the Future a Chatbot?

For any questions about this event with the Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval (ciir.cs.umass.edu), please contact Hamed Zamani.
Event date Friday, April 25, 2025 Event time 1:30 pm Go to all events list Event

CIIR Talk Series: Yi Zhang (University of California, Santa Cruz), Learning Inner Monologue and Its Application to Multi-Round RAG

The CIIR Talk Series is an initiative for researchers and practitioners working on information retrieval and related disciplines to present their work.
Event date Friday, November 7, 2025 Event time 1:30 pm Go to all events list Event

CIIR Talk Series: Masaharu Yoshioka, Information Extraction from the Domain Text

CIIR Talk Series: Masaharu Yoshioka, Hokkaido University. - Application of Legal Information Extraction and Chemical Reaction Process Information Extraction
Event date Friday, February 20, 2026 Event time 1:30 pm Go to all events list Event

CIIR Talk Series: Chenyan Xiong

CIIR Talk Series: Chenyan Xiong, Carnegie Mellon University
Event date Friday, April 10, 2026 Event time 1:30 pm Go to all events list Event

CIIR Talk Series: Ian Soboroff (National Institute of Standards and Technology), Evaluating Generative IR Systems

For any questions about this event with the Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval (ciir.cs.umass.edu), please contact Hamed Zamani.
Event date Friday, March 28, 2025 Event time 1:30 pm Go to all events list Event

CIIR Talk Series: Michael Ekstrand (Drexel University), Search, Recommendation, and Sea Monsters: Mapping the Landscape of Fairness and Social Impact in Information Access

For any questions about this event with the Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval (ciir.cs.umass.edu), please contact Hamed Zamani.
Event date Friday, May 9, 2025 Event time 1:30 pm Go to all events list Event

CIIR Talk Series: Alessandro Moschitti, Understanding RAG-LLMs: A Practical Perspective from Web-Based QA

Alessandro Moschitti has been a Principal Research Scientist at Amazon since 2018.
Event date Friday, November 21, 2025 Event time 1:30 pm Go to all events list Event

CIIR Talk Series: Eduard Dragut

CIIR Talk Series: Eduard Dragut, Temple University
Event date Friday, March 13, 2026 Event time 1:30 pm Go to all events list Event

CIIR Talk Series: Benjamin Piwowarski

CIIR Talk Series: Benjamin Piwowarski, Sorbonne University
Event date Friday, April 24, 2026 Event time 1:30 pm Go to all events list Event

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