People

We welcome Peter Røysland Aarnes as our new PhD student, who will focus his research on explainable AI for fact-checking. Funded by the SFI MediaFutures research center, he will contribute to the Media Content Production & Analysis work package, under the supervision of Vinay Setty.

Associate Professor Petra Galuscakova joins IAI as a faculty member. Petra will work on an intersection of information retrieval and natural language processing. She is interested in providing robust access strategies for complex search scenarios, such as cross-language retrieval and speech retrieval. Petra holds a PhD from Charles University in Prague, after which she spent some time at the University of Maryland and Université Grenoble-Alpes.

Simone Borg Bruun is a third-year PhD student affiliated with the University of Copenhagen and Alka Forsikring. She is working on recommender systems for the insurance domain. Her research interests include learning from sparse and dynamic user actions, multimodal learning, and explainability. Simone will be spending 2 months with us.

We have an opening for an associate professor in NLP. It’s a permanent (tenured) position. Details and application are on jobbnorge.

Ivan Sekulić is a third-year PhD student at the Università della Svizzera italiana (USI) in Lugano, Switzerland. He is working on conversational approaches to information retrieval and will be spending 3 months with us.

We welcome two new PhD students to our group: Nolwenn Bernard and Weronika Łajewska. Both of them are funded by the Norwegian Research Center for AI Innovation (NorwAI) research center and will be contributing to the Language and Personalization work package under Krisztian Balog’s supervision.

Ivica Kostric joins IAI as a PhD student. Ivica will be working on conversational AI and will be supervised by Krisztian Balog. This position is partially funded by Google.

Christin Kreutz, a PhD student from the University of Trier, Germany, visits us for a period of three months. Christin works on the reviewer coverage problem of conference program committees.

We have a fully-funded PhD position in Conversational AI. This position is partially funded by Google. Visit Jobbnorge for more information and application details (notice the requirement for a cover letter). Application deadline: Nov 26.

Maryam Saleki joins IAI as a PhD student. Maryam will be working on efficient and effective Transformer models for conversational AI. She will be supervised by Vinay Setty and co-supervised by Krisztian Balog.