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 Health Science Center at Houston

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