InfoSense Lab
Dedicated to improving how people seek, process, and make sense of information.
InfoSense is a research lab in the Department of Computer Science at Georgetown University led by Grace Hui Yang. We research Information Retrieval, Deep Reinforcement Learning, Machine Learning, and more. Formed by undergraduates, Masters, PhDs, Post-docs, programmers and faculty, the research team devotes its passion and energy to both theory and systems development of human-centered AI.
News
2024 Jan
Prof. Grace Hui Yang is the General Co-Chair for SIGIR 2024! Welcome to D.C.!
2023 Feb
Zhiwen Tang (graduated Aug 2021) joined Yunnan University as Associate Professor.
2021 Feb
Summer 2021 projects: link
2019 Nov
Our group has one paper accepted by AAAI 2020 as oral presentation. Congratulations!
2019 Oct
Our group has 2 workshop papers accepted by NeurIPS 2019. See you in Vancouver, Canada!
2019 Feb
InfoSense hosted Professor Ming Zhang from Peking University. Professor Zhang presented her work on LEARNING THE JOINT REPRESENTATION OF HETEROGENEOUS TEMPORAL EVENTS FOR CLINICAL ENDPOINT PREDICTION. The paper was originally presented at AAAI 2018 and can be found here.
2019 Feb
Congratulations to Grace. She was recognized as WSDM 2018 Outstanding Senior Reviewer!
2018 Sep
Welcome Geoff to join our group!
2017 Oct
Sicong successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis! Congratulations!!
2017 Oct
Zhiwen won the Best Student Paper Award at ICITR 2017 for our paper "Investigating Per Topic Upper Bound for Session Search Evaluation". Congratulations!
2017 Oct
Our group has 2 full papers, 1 short papers and 1 tutorial presented at ICTIR 2017, Amsterdam. Nice work team!
2017 May
Welcome Amy, Shuchen, and Chong to join our group!
2016 June
Grace's Book on "Dynamic IR Modeling" is published!
2016 June
Welcome Jianxian and Lingqiong to join our group!
2016 May
Congratulations!! Hongkai's thesis is successfully defended!
2016
Welcome Yunyun Chen, Angela Yang, Susan Bhattarai, Joshua Kang, Simeon Meerson and Christopher Zawora join our research group!
2015
Welcome Hongkai Wu join our research group!
2014
Welcome Jie Zhou join our research group!
2014
Grace introduced Dynamic Domain Track in the 2014 TREC workshop. (download ppt here).
2014
Grace will co-organize the TREC 2015 Dynamic Domain Track with John Frank and Ian Soboroff.
2014
Welcome Shiqi Liu join our research group!
2014
Our group has 1 full paper, 1 short paper and 1 demo paper accepted by SIGIR 2014. Congratulations, Jiyun, Sicong and Chris!
2014
Grace will give the Dynamic Information Retrieval Modeling Tutorial in SIGIR 2014, with Marc Sloan and Jun Wang.
2014
Grace co-chairs the first Privacy-Preserving IR workshop PIR 2014 co-located with SIGIR 2014.
2014
Grace co-chairs SIGIR 2014 Doctoral Consortium with Shane Culpepper.
2013
Our group won the 1st position in TREC 2013 Contextual Suggestion (ClueWeb). Congratulations, Jiyun!
2013
New class for Fall 2013 - COSC289 Multimedia Processing. Take it if you want to know how to play with images, audios, and video files by only using simple programming skills such as Arrays and File operators.
2013/6
Our group won the 1st position in patent prior art retrieval evaluation in CLEF-IP 2013. Congratulations, Jiyun!
2013/4
Our group has 1 full, 1 short, and 1 demo paper accepted by SIGIR 2013. Congratulations, Dongyi, Sicong, and Jiyun!
2013/4
Our full paper "Utilizing Query Change for Session Search" is accepted by SIGIR 2013. Congratulations, Dongyi and Sicong!
2013/3
Grace presents our work about "increasing stability of result organization for session search" in Moscow, Russia @ ECIR 2013.
2013/2
Grace co-chairs SIGIR 2013 Doctoral Consortium with Mounia Lalmas and Jaime Arguello.
2012/12
Dongyi's paper "Increasing Stability of Result Organization for Session Search" has been accepted by ECIR 2013.
2012/11
Our Contextual Suggestion team won the 2nd position in TREC 2012 Contextual Suggestion evaluation! Congratulations, Andrew, Dave and Steve!
2012/11
Our Session team won the 2nd position in TREC 2012 Session Search evaluaiton on using queries from the whole session! Congratulations, Dongyi!
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Latest Research
AgentIR: 2nd Workshop on Agent-based Information Retrieval.
Pengyue Jia, Qingpeng Cai, Xiangyu Zhao, Ling Pan, Xin Xin, Jin Huang, Weinan Zhang, Li Zhao, Dawei Yin, Grace Hui Yang
Proceedings of the 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2025)
Interactive Agents
Pre-Trained Models for Search and Recommendation: Introduction to the Special Issue - Part 2.
Wenjie Wang, Zheng Liu, Fuli Feng, Zhicheng Dou, Qingyao Ai, Grace Hui Yang, Defu Lian, Lu Hou, Nick Craswell, Aixin Sun, Hamed Zamani, Donald Metzler, Maarten de Rijke
ACM Transactions on Information Systems
Interactive Agents
Proactive Conversational AI: A Comprehensive Survey of Advancements and Opportunities.
Yang Deng, Lizi Liao, Wenqiang Lei, Grace Hui Yang, Wai Lam, Tat-Seng Chua
ACM Transactions on Information Systems
Interactive Agents
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