Organizing Committee for SIGIR 2012

General Conference Chair

• Bill Hersh, Oregon Health & Science University, USA

Program Committee Chairs

• Jamie Callan, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
• Yoelle Maarek, (Yahoo! Research, Israel
• Mark Sanderson, RMIT, Australia

Treasurer

• Javed Mostafa, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, USA

Posters & Demos Chairs

• Falk Scholer, RMIT, Australia
• Mark Smucker, University of Waterloo, Canada
• Andrew Turpin, University of Melbourne, Australia

Tutorials Chair

• Henning Müller, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland, Switzerland

Workshops Chairs

• Eugene Agichtein, Emory University, USA
• Vanessa Murdock, Yahoo! Research, Spain

Industry Track Chairs

• Udo Kruschwitz, University of Essex, UK
• Su-Lin Wu, Yahoo! Labs, USA

Doctoral Consortium Chairs

• Maarten de Rijke , University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Mounia Lalmas, Yahoo! Research, Spain

Mentoring Chair

• Douglas W. Oard, University of Maryland, USA

Best Papers Chair

• ChengXiang Zhai, University of Illinois - Champaign-Urbana, USA

Publications Chair

• Elmer Bernstam, University of Texas Houston Medical Center, USA

Local Arrangements Chair

• Justin Fletcher, Oregon Health & Science University

Publicity Chair

• Jayashree Kalpathy-Cramer, Oregon Health & Science University, USA

Sponsorships Chair

• Aaron Cohen, Oregon Health & Science University, USA

Webmaster

• Chris Weldon, Oregon Health & Science University, USA

SIGIR 2012 Area Chairs

Document Representation and Content Analysis

• Ricardo Baeza-Yates (Yahoo! Research, Spain)
• Gareth Jones (Dublin City University, Ireland)
• Ming Zhao (Microsoft Research Asia, China)
• Wessel Kraaij (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
• Kevyn Collins-Thompson (Microsoft Research, USA)
• Edleno S. de Moura (Federal University of Amazonas, Brazil)
• Oren Kurland (Technion, Israel)
• Shlomo Geva (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)
• Arjen de Vries (Centrum Viskunde & Informatica and Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
• Elizabeth Liddy (University of Syracuse, USA)

Queries and Query Analysis

• Fernando Diaz (Yahoo! Research, USA)
• Nick Craswell (Microsoft Research, USA)
• Evgeniy Gabrilovich (Yahoo! Research, USA)
• Carlos Castillo (Yahoo! Research, Spain)
• Eugene Agichtein (Emory University, USA)
• Ryen White (Microsoft Research, USA)

Users and Interactive IR

• Ian Ruthven (University of Strathclyde, UK)
• Susan Dumais (Microsoft Research, USA)
• Diane Kelly (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA)
• Mounia Lalmas (Yahoo! Research, Spain)

Retrieval Models and Ranking

• David Carmel (IBM Research, Israel)
• Djoerd Hiemstra (University of Twente, The Netherlands)
• Bruce Croft (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA)
• Eric Gaussier (Université Joseph Fourier, France)
• Donald Metzler (Yahoo! Research, USA)
• Peter Bruza (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)
• Tao Qin (Microsoft Research Asia, China)

Search Engine Architectures and Scalability

• Vanja Josifovski (Yahoo! Research, USA)
• Fabrizio Silvestri (ISTI-CNR, Italy)

Filtering and Recommendation

• Isabelle Moulinier (Thomson Reuters, USA)
• Yiming Yang (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
• Yi Zhang (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA)
• James Allan (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA)

Evaluation

• Ben Carterette (University of Delaware, USA)
• Ellen Voorhees (NIST, USA)
• Maarten de Rijke (Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

Web IR and Social Media Search

• Elad Yom-Tov (Yahoo! Research, USA)
• Andrei Broder (Yahoo! Research, USA)
• Marc Najork (Microsoft Research, USA)
• Charlie Clarke (University of Waterloo, Canada)
• Wei Ying Ma (Microsoft Research Asia, China)

IR and Structured Data

• Sihem Amer-Yahia (Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar)
• Andrew Trotman (University of Otago, New Zealand)

Multimedia IR

• Xian-Sheng Hua (Microsoft Research Asia, China)
• Franciska de Jong (University of Twente, The Netherlands)