Mark Sanderson, University of Sheffield, UK (chair)
ChengXiang Zhai, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA (chair)
Justin Zobel, University of Melbourne, Australia (chair)
Eugene Agichtein, Emory University, USA
Nick Belkin, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA
Jamie Callan, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Soumen Chakrabarti, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India
Hsin-Hsi Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Tat-Seng Chua, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Charlie Clarke, University of Waterloo, Canada
Fabio Crestani, Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland
Bruce Croft, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
Maarten de Rijke, Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Susan Dumais, Microsoft Research Redmond, USA
Ed Fox, Virginia Tech, USA
Norbert Fuhr, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Djoerd Hiemstra, Universiteit Twente, The Netherlands
Rong Jin, Michigan State University, USA
Gareth Jones, Dublin City University, Ireland
Rosie Jones, Yahoo! Research, USA
Tie-Yan Liu, Microsoft Research Asia, China
R. Manmatha , University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
Natasa Milic-Frayling, Microsoft Research, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Alistair Moffat, University of Melbourne, Australia
Isabelle Moulinier, Thomson Reuters, USA
Ian Ruthven, University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom
Tetsuya Sakai, NewsWatch, Japan
Jacques Savoy, Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Hinrich Schütze, University of Stuttgart Germany
Fabrizio Sebastiani, CNR, Italy
Luo Si, Purdue University, USA
Nicola Stokes, University College Dublin, Ireland
Hwee Tou Ng, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Ellen Voorhees, NIST, USA
