About
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Dr. Krisztian Balog is an Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Stavanger. Previously, in 2011-2012, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Computer and Information Science Department of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway. Before that, he was a postdoc at the Information and Language Processing Systems (ILPS) group at the Informatics Institute of the University of Amsterdam, where he received his PhD in Computer Science in 2008 under the supervision of prof.dr. Maarten de Rijke. He holds M.Sc. degrees in Computer Science from the Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest (2005) and from the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam (2004). Balog’s work on expertise retrieval has been very influential and has received numerous awards, including the Best Doctoral Consortium Paper Award at the ACM SIGIR conference in 2007, the Victorine van Schaickprijs in 2009, and the Best Paper Award at the ECIR conference in 2011. His general research interests lie in the use and development of information retrieval, information extraction, and machine learning techniques for intelligent information access tasks. His current research concerns entity-oriented and semantic search. |
Professional activities
(Co-)organizer
- CIKM 2013 workshop on Living Labs for Information Retrieval Evaluation
- SIGIR 2012 workshop on Entity-oriented and Semantic Search (JIWES)
- TREC Entity track 2009-2011
- SIGIR 2011 workshop on Entity-Oriented Search (EOS)
- SIGIR 2008 workshop on Future Challenges in Expertise Retrieval (fCHER)
- The CLEF Crosslingual Web Track (WebCLEF) 2006
Program Committee Member (International Conferences)
- ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) 2011-2013
- ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM) 2010-2014
- ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development on Information Retrieval (SIGIR) 2007-2013
- Area chair for ‘IR and Structured Data’ in 2013
- ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) 2010, 2013
- Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and Human Language Technologies Conference (ACL-HLT) 2011-2012
- European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR) 2012-2013
- IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE Big Data) 2013
- International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM) 2010-2011
- International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR) 2013
- International World Wide Web Conference (WWW) 2010-2012
Program Committee Member (International Workshops)
- Cross-lingual Expert Search (CriES) at CLEF 2010
- Data In Web Search (DISH) at WWW 2013 (advisory board member)
- Discovering Meaning On the Go in Large & Heterogeneous Data (LHD) at IJCAI 2011, ISWC 2012
- Exploiting Semantic Annotations in Information Retrieval (ESAIR) at CIKM 2012
- Query Representation and Understanding (QRU) at SIGIR 2011
- Search and Mining Entity-Relationship Data (SMER) at CIKM 2011
- Social Aspects of the Web (SAW), 2008-2009
- Web of Linked Entities (WoLE) at WWW 2013
Reviewer International Journals
- ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD) 2012
- ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS) 2012-2013
- Data Knowledge & Engineering (DKE) 2008
- IEEE Intelligent Systems 2008
- Information Processing & Management (IPM) 2006-2010
- Information Retrieval (IRJ) 2009-2010
- Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR) 2009
- Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST) 2012
- Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS) 2011
Reviewer International Conferences
- ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) 2009-2010
- ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data/Principles of Database Systems (PODS) 2008
- Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL) 2009
- European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML PKDD) 2011
- International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL) 2011
- Web Intelligence (WI) 2007-2008
Other
- Grant reviewer for the Swiss National Science Foundation, 2013
- Member of the Student mentoring programme at ECIR 2011-2012
- Member of the Outstanding papers award committee at SIGIR 2009
- Member of the Mentoring committee at SIGIR 2009
Awards
- Best Paper Award at the 33rd European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2011)
- Victorine van Schaickprijs 2009 (for PhD dissertation)
- Best Doctoral Consortium Paper Award at the ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development on Information Retrieval, 2007
Publicity
Contact details
| University of Stavanger Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science NO-4036 Stavanger, Norway room E-426 |
Tel: +47 51 83 17 89 Fax: +47 51 83 10 50 Email: krisztian (dot) balog (at) uis.no |