Faculty
Eugene Agichtein
Winship Professor
I lead the Emory Intelligent Information Access Lab (IRLab). We work on information retrieval and text and data mining, developing techniques for mining online user behavior and interactions in web search and online social networks, large-scale content analysis and information extraction, and on applications of these techniques to medical informatics.
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PhD Students
Sergey Volokhin
PhD Candidate (2017 - )
I am a 6th year PhD student.
Research areas include: Recommender Systems, in particular Conversational Recommendations, Conversational Search.

Chen Lin
PhD Candidate (2018 - )

Harshita Sahijwani
PhD Candidate (2017 - )
I'm a 6th-year PhD student. My research interests include conversational search, query understanding, and entity linking.

Ramraj Chandradevan
PhD Candidate (2019 - )
My research interests include cross-lingual and multi-lingual information retrieval, neural semantic ranking, large language modeling for IR, and multi-modality learning.

Kaustubh Dhole
PhD Candidate (2021 - )
I’m interested in problems which generally fall under Natural Language Generation & Information Retrieval. I graduated from BITS Pilani, India after which I worked for 6 years in the domain of Dialogue Modelling at Amelia (IPsoft). (Page: https://kaustubhdhole.github.io/ )

Previous Members
Ali Ahmadvand
PhD Student (2016 – 2021)
First position: Machine Learning Engineer at Google

Zihao Wang
PhD Student (2016 – 2021)

Jason Choi
Masters Student and Research Assistant (2017 – 2020)
First position: Applied Research Scientist at Amazon Alexa Shopping

Payam Karisani
PhD Student (2016 – 2020)

Denis Savenkov
PhD Student (2011 – 2017)
First position: Research Scientist, Facebook

Alexandra Vtyurina (Sasha)
Visiting Research Scholar (2016 – 2017)

Liquan Bai
Masters student (2016 – 2018)

Yu Wang
PhD student (2009 – 2014)

Dmitry Lagun
PhD student (2009 – 2014)
First position: Research Scientist at Google

Qi Guo
PhD student (2007 – 2012)

Alex Kotov
Postdoc Researcher (2011 – 2013)
First position: Assistant Professor at Wayne State University

Nikita Zhiltsov
Fulbright Scholar (2012 – 2013)

David Fink
Undergraduate student

Noah Adler
Undergraduate student
