What

Anything Information Retrieval, really!

We develop theory and methods for scalable machine learning and information retrieval to analyze big data and address challenging problems in science and society.

Who

Staff

• Prof. dr. ir. Arjen P. de Vries: @arjen@idf.social, cs.ru.nl/~arjen, arjenp.dev
• Prof. dr. ir. Djoerd Hiemstra: @djoerd@idf.social, djoerdhiemstra.com
• Dr. Faegheh Hasibi: @fhasibi@idf.social, RU profile

PhD students

• Gijs Hendriksen: Linked-In profile
• Mohanna Hoveyda: mohannahoveyda.com
• Heydar Soudani: homepage

External:

• Thorsten Krause: Linked-In profile
• Swarupa Hardikar: Linked-In profile
• Senna van Iersel: Linked-In profile

See also PhD alumni.

Affiliated Staff

• Prof. dr. Martha Larson: RU profile

Former team members

• Dr. Harrie Oosterhuis: @HarrieOos, harrieo.github.io (assistant professor)
• Norman Knyazev: Linked-In profile (PhD alumnus)
• Hideaki Joko: Linked-In profile (PhD alumnus)
• Tim de Jonge: Linked-In profile (PhD candidate)
• Koen Dercksen: koendercksen.com (PhD candidate)
• Daria Alexander: Linked-In profile (PhD candidate)
• Emma Gerritse: emmagerritse.com (PhD candidate)
• Chris Kamphuis: Linked-In profile (PhD alumnus)
• Neghin Ghasemi: Linked-In profile (PhD candidate)
• Ivan Veul: Linked-In profile (PhD candidate)
• Gebre Gebremeskel: Linked-In profile (PhD alumnus)
• Dušan Barok: Monoskop profile (PhD alumnus)
• Thomas Schoegje: Linked-In profile (PhD alumnus)
• Mick van Hulst: Linked-In profile (guest researcher)

Info for students

Courses and opportunities for external internships are discussed at the education pages.

Activities

Ongoing research projects include:

• The Lessen Project, on conversational intelligence
• OpenWebSearch.eu, to create an open European Web Index

Completed projects include:

• SIDN project Noga
• AI Health Lab project MIHRacle, making electronic health records interactive and comprehensible for the patient
• Commit2Data project SQIREL-Graphs, on IR and Graph DB

Public repositories related to research carried out in the group:

• REL: Radboud Entity Linker
• GeeseDB: Graph Engine for Exploration and Search over Evolving DataBases
• WASP: Personal Web Archive and Search System

The (currently inactive) IR Reading Club page.

Why Informagus?

Radboud University is situated in Nijmegen, the city called Noviomagus in Roman times. Noviomagus is Celtic for ‘the new market’. In proper classic Latin, ‘magus’ refers to magic; the type of magic that many associate with the outcomes of computer science research.