Program Committee
Program Committee Chairs
- Jamie Callan, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
- Yoelle Maarek, Yahoo! Research, Israel
- Mark Sanderson, RMIT, Australia
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
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
Other Applications
- Tat-Seng Chua National Univ of Singapore, Singapore
- Tetsuya Sakai Microsoft Research Asia, China