This was another year when I was just too busy to blog. But, here are a few things from 2018 to be proud of (in no particular order).
- PhD students: Faegheh Hasibi defended her PhD thesis and Trond Linjordet joined my group.
- Our SIGIR’06 paper with Leif Azzopardi and Maarten de Rijke received a Test of Time Honorable Mention Award at SIGIR’18.
- I joined Google for my sabbatical to work on explainable AI in the context of conversational recommender systems.
- I am general co-chair for ICTIR 2020, which will be held in Stavanger, Norway.
- My book on Entity-Oriented Search got published by Springer and is available open access.
- I was recipient of the Karen Spärck Jones Award 2018 for my contributions to the area of semantic search and for my work on evaluation methodology.