SIGIR 2020 Volunteers

Due to the global pandemic of COVID-19, SIGIR 2020 was held on July 25-30, 2020 as a fully virtual conference for the first time in SIGIR history. Despite the challenges in hosting an online conference, the organizers tried their utmost to provide the attendees with the best services and support throughout the conference. Along with that, our volunteers devoted themselves to the conference and worked tirelessly to ensure a successful virtual event, for which we are very grateful.

SIGIR 2020 features 8 volunteer leaders and 78 volunteers from 15 countries around the world. Our volunteers are mainly responsible for the Virtual Conference Portal, Publicity, Keynotes or Full Paper Presentations, Virtual Discussion Rooms and Virtual Hangout Room, respectively. SIGIR 2020 would not have been such a success if our volunteers had not been there. We appreacite and hereby acknowledge the contributions from every volunteer by listing their names below. Again, thank you all!

Leaders

Name	Affiliation	Country	Responsibility
Yi Chang	Jilin University	China	Publicity
Yiqun Liu	Tsinghua University	China	Virtual Conference Portal
Zehua Chen	Taiyuan University of Technology	China	Publicity
Zhicheng Dou	Renmin University of China	China	Virtual Conference Portal
Jiafeng Guo	Chinese Academy of Sciences	China	Virtual Conference Portal
Jiaxin Mao	Tsinghua University	China	Virtual Conference Portal
Lei Liu	York University	Canada	Virtual Discussion Rooms
Weizhi Ma	Tsinghua University	China	Virtual Conference Portal

Volunteers (Publicity)

Name	Affiliation	Country
Long Xia	York University	Canada
Lei Liu	York University	Canada
Qiang Huang	Jilin University	China
Bo Wang	Jilin University	China
Sherry Runjie Zhu	York University	Canada
Sha Li	Taiyuan University of Technology	China
Zhining Liu	Jilin University	China
Yu Li	Jilin University	China
Huaqi Gao	York University	Canada
Yumin Chen	Taiyuan University of Technology	China

Volunteers (Keynotes or Full Paper Presentations)

Name	Affiliation	Country	Note
Jiaxin Mao	Tsinghua University	China	Organizer
Weizhi Ma	Tsinghua University	China	Organizer
Ting Bai	Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications	China
Chong Chen	Tsinghua University	China
Yixing Fan	Chinese Academy of Sciences	China
Hui Gao	Tianjin University	China
Saiping Guan	Chinese Academy of Sciences	China
Binyang Li	University of International Relations	China
Jianfeng Liu	University of Chinese Academy of Sciences	China
Jieli Liu	Peking University	China
Hongyu Lu	Tsinghua University	China
Yueyuan Ma	Renmin University of China	China
Liang Pang	Chinese Academy of Sciences	China
Wenbo Shang	University of International Relations	China
Shumin Shi	Beijing Institute of Technology	China
Chenxu Wang	University of Science and Technology of China	China
Pengfei Wang	Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications	China
Zimeng Wang	University of International Relations	China
Xiaohui Xie	Tsinghua University	China
Jun Xu	Renmin University of China	China
Ruqing Zhang	Chinese Academy of Sciences	China
Xiao Zhang	Renmin University of China	China
Xinyue Zhang	Hainan University	China
Xin Zhao	Renmin University of China	China
Zhengyi Zhao	University of International Relations	China
Yanqiao Zhu	Chinese Academy of Sciences	China

Volunteers (Virtual Discussion Rooms)

Name	Affiliation	Country	Note
Lei Liu	York University	Canada	Organizer
Kimiya Keyvan	York University	Canada	Organizer
Ellen Huang	Maple High School	Canada	Organizer
Md Tahmid Rahman Laskar	York University	Canada	Organizer
Huaqi Gao	York University	Canada	Organizer
Sadra Abrishamkar	York University	Canada
Mustafa Abualsaud	University of Waterloo	Finland
Bushra Aljbawi	Wilfrid Laurier University	Canada
Zien Sheikh Ali	Qatar University	Qatar
Valeriia Baranova	RMIT University	Australia
Qin Chen	Fudan University	China
Zitong Cheng	University of Delaware	USA
Yumin Chen	Taiyuan University of Technology	China
Shizhe Diao	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	China
Sim Gamboa	Self Learning	USA
Cristina Garbacea	University of Michigan	USA
Mengting Gu	Yale University	USA
Maram Hasanain	Qatar University	Qatar
Qiang Huang	Jilin University	China
Mourad Jbene	Euromediterranee University of Fes	Morocco
Kshitij	University of Minnesota	USA
Sicong Kuang	Lehigh University	USA
Sha Li	Taiyuan University of Technology	China
Zhining Liu	Jilin University	China
Dan Luo	Lehigh Univerisity	USA
Ruotian Ma	Fudan University	China
Jivashi Nagar	University of Cape Town	South Africa
Jiahuan Pei	University of Amsterdam	Germany
Yiding Ran	National University of Singapore	Singapore
Manasa Rath	Rutgers University	USA
Kevin Roitero	University od Udine	Italy
Iman Saleh	Cairo University	Egypt
Liliana Mamani Sanchez	Independent	Germany
Procheta Sen	Dublin City University	Ireland
Shubhdeep Singh	RMIT University	Australia
Michael Soprano	Università degli Studi di Udine	Italy
Reem Suwaileh	Qatar University	Qatar
Joseph Philipo Telemala	University of Cape Town	South Africa
MD ZIA ULLAH	CNRS	France
Bo Wang	Jilin University	China
Dongzhen Wen	Dalian University of Technology	China
Ruijie Xi	North Carolina State University	USA
Long Xia	York University	Canada
Niannan Xue	Imperial College London	United Kingdom
Chengxuan Ying	Dalian University of Technology	China
Fattane Zarrinkalam	Ryerson university	Canada
Oleg Zendel	RMIT University	Australia
Yu Zhang	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	USA
Xuan Zhao	York University	Canada
Sherry Runjie Zhu	York University	Canada

Volunteers (Virtual Hangout Room)

Name	Affiliation	Country	Note
Long Xia	York University	Canada	Organizer
Jiaxin Mao	Tsinghua University	China	Organizer
Jiashu (Jessie) Zhao	Wilfrid Laurier University	Canada	Organizer