[Call-for-Registration] ESSIR2026 17th European Summer School on Information Retrieval

[Gabi Constantin]

[Apologies for cross-postings] ******************************************************* CALL FOR REGISTRATION 17th European Summer School on Information Retrieval ESSIR2026 July 27–31, 2026 – Bucharest, Romania https://essir2026.aimultimedialab.ro/ ******************************************************* We are inviting students and young professionals to participate in the 17th edition of the European Summer School on Information Retrieval, which will take place in Bucharest, Romania, July 27–31, 2026, at the CAMPUS Research Institute, National University of Science and Technology Politehnica Bucharest, as a results of the cooperation with Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria, and CEA LIST, Paris, France. ESSIR is held regularly, providing high-quality teaching of Information Retrieval (IR) and advanced IR topics to an audience of researchers and research students. The mission of the school is to enable students and young professionals to learn about modern research challenges and methods on IR and related disciplines; to stimulate scientific research and collaboration in these fields; and to grow a community of researchers, students, and industry professionals working on IR with collaborations all around the world. The summer school will include, apart from the hands-on sessions, a workshop, a practical challenge/hackathon and of course the social and networking activities. PhD students can obtain ECTS credits based on the graduation of an exam organized on the last day of the school. ******************************************************* Confirmed speakers ******************************************************* We are delighted to announce the already confirmed speakers: - Prof. Henning Müller, HES-SO & University of Geneva, Switzerland - Dr. Florina Piroi, TU Wien & CRDM, Austria - Prof. Iadh Ounis, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom - Lucian Gruia, Ciklum & AI Multimedia Lab, Romania - Prof. Marta Sabou, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria - Prof. Gabriella Pasi, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy - Prof. Yashar Moshfeghi, University of Strathclyde, Scotland - Dr. Adrian Popescu, Université Paris-Saclay, CEA LIST, France - Prof. Udo Kruschwitz, University of Regensburg, Germany - Dr. Svitlana Vakulenko, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria ******************************************************* Programme ******************************************************* The work-in-progress programme will include topics such as Introduction to IR, IR Evaluation, Knowledge Graphs, Explainable AI and IR, Domain-specific IR, Data Management for IR, LLMs, Large Model Biases in IR, and many more. Check-out the programme here https://essir2026.aimultimedialab.ro/programme/. ******************************************************* Registration ******************************************************* Early registration deadline is June 7, 2026. All the information is available here https://essir2026.aimultimedialab.ro/registration/. ******************************************************* Organization ******************************************************* ESSIR2026 is organized by Prof. Bogdan Ionescu, National University of Science and Technology Politehnica Bucharest, Dr. Adrian Popescu, Université Paris-Saclay, CEA LIST, France, and Dr. Florina Piroi, TU Wien & CRDM, Austria as General and Program Chairs. We are looking forward to hosting you in Bucharest! On behalf of the organizers, Bogdan Ionescu https://www.AIMultimediaLab.ro/