| Alessandro Moschitti | Amazon | Liangjie Hong | LinkedIn |
| Alistair Moffat | University of Melbourne | Lingfei Wu | JD.COM Silicon Valley Research Center |
| Aris Anagnostopoulos | Sapienza University of Rome | Liqiang Nie | Shandong University |
| Bart Goethals | Universiteit Antwerpen | Luca Maria Aiello | Yahoo Labs |
| Ben Carterette | Spotify | Makoto Yamada | RIKEN AIP / Kyoto University |
| Bryan Hooi | NUS | Manuel Gomez Rodriguez | MPI-SWS |
| Carlos Castillo | Sapienza University of Rome | Marc Najork | Google |
| Charu Aggarwal | IBM | Mark Sanderson | RMIT University |
| Chuan Shi | Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications | Matteo Riondato | Amherst College |
| Claudia Hauff | Delft University of Technology | Min Zhang | Tsinghua University |
| Danai Koutra | U Michigan | Ming Zhang | Peking University, China |
| David Carmel | Amazon | Mounia Lalmas | Spotify |
| Dawei Yin | Baidu | Neil Shah | Snap Inc. |
| Daxin Jiang | Microsoft, Beijing, China | nikolaj tatti | Aalto University |
| Edgar Meij | Bloomberg L.P. | Panayiotis Tsaparas | University of Ioannina, Greece |
| Emine Yilmaz | University College London | Paul Bennett | Microsoft Research |
| Emre Kiciman | Microsoft Research | Peng Cui | Tsinghua University |
| Francesco Bonchi | ISI Foundation, Turin | Qing Li | The Hong Kong Polytechnic University |
| George Karypis | University of Minnesota, Minneapolis | Raymond Ng | UBC |
| Gerhard Weikum | Max-Planck-Institut fur Informatik | Robert West | EPFL |
| Gianluca Demartini | University of Queensland | Ron Bekkerman | Cherre |
| Grace Hui Yang | Georgetown University | Ryen White | Microsoft Research |
| Hanghang Tong | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Sebastian Bruch | |
| Hongning Wang | University of Virginia | Shou-De Lin | NTU |
| Hui Fang | University of Delaware | Suhang Wang | Pennsylvania State University |
| Ido Guy | eBay Research | Tyler Derr | Vanderbilt University |
| Iftah Gamzu | Amazon | Wai Lam | The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| Jaap Kamps | University of Amsterdam | Wenqi FAN | The Hong Kong Polytechnic University |
| James Caverlee | Texas A&M University | Xia Hu | Rice University |
| Jia Wu | Macquarie University | Xiangnan He | University of Science and Technology of China |
| Jialong Han | Tencent AI Lab | Xiangyu Zhao | City University of Hong Kong |
| Jiayu Zhou | Michigan State University | Xing Xie | Microsoft Research Asia |
| Jie Tang | Tsinghua University | Yelena Mejova | ISI Foundation |
| Jimmy Huang | York University, Canada | Yi Chang | Jilin University |
| Ji-Rong Wen | Renmin University of China | Yi Tay | Google |
| Jiyin He | Signal-AI | Yinglong Xia | Facebook |
| Joemon M Jose | University of Glasgow | Yoelle Maarek | Amazon Research |
| Karthik Subbian | Amazon | Zhaochun Ren | Shandong University |
| Ke Zhou | University of Nottingham | Zhengzhang Chen | NEC Laboratories America, Inc. |
| Kira Radinsky | Ebay | Zhifeng Bao | RMIT University |
| Krisztian Balog | University of Stavanger, Norway | Zitao Liu | TAL Education Group |
| Liane Lewin-Eytan | Amazon, Alexa Shopping | | |