Organizing committee

General Co-Chairs

Maarten de Rijke
University of Amsterdam

Milad Shokouhi
Microsoft

Local Chair

Filip Radlinski
Google

Program Committee Chairs

Andrew Tomkins
Google

Min Zhang
Tsinghua University

Practice and Experience Track Chairs

Emine Yilmaz
University College London

Hang Li
Huawei Technologies

Workshop Chairs

Jussi Karlgren
Gavagai

Grace Yang
Georgetown University

Tutorial Chairs

Brian Davison
Lehigh University

Vanessa Murdock
Microsoft

Doctoral Consortium Chairs

Eugene Agichtein
Emory University

Yoelle Maarek
Yahoo Research

VC & Startup Chair

Tapas Kanungo
Microsoft

Best Paper Award Chair

Charles L.A. Clarke
Facebook and University of Waterloo

Test of Time Award Chair

Alistair Moffat
The University of Melbourne

WSDM Cup Chair

Laura Dietz
University of New Hampshire

Treasurer

Aris Gionis
Aalto University

Proceedings Chairs

Hosein Azarbonyad
University of Amsterdam

Mostafa Dehghani
University of Amsterdam

Information Director

Xinyi Li
University of Amsterdam