Arjen P. de Vries
Arjen P. de Vries
PhD thesis and other publications.
A senior researcher in CWI's Database Architectures and Information Access theme (INS1), I lead the Information Access research (aka M4 team (internal)). The main topics of my research include structured document retrieval and entity ranking, multimedia information retrieval, the application of information retrieval theory to recommendation systems and social media, nearest neighbour search in high dimensional spaces, the integration of information retrieval and database technology, and the evaluation methodology needed in these novel information retrieval application areas. I am very interested into the newly proposed dataspaces abstraction.
September 1st, 2008, I have been appointed Full professor Multimedia Dataspaces (nl) at Delft University of Technology. May 8th, 2009, I gave my inaugural lecture "Zoektocht op schema" (more to follow...).
At Delft University (my Delft homepage), I teach course IN4144 (Multimedia Data Management), part of the Media and Knowledge Engineering Master's program.
Refer to my CV for a recently updated overview of professional activities. Highlights include the organization of SIGIR 2007 in Amsterdam, together with Wessel Kraaij, Djoerd Hiemstra, and Maarten de Rijke, and the coordination of the TREC Enterprise Track with Peter Bailey, Nick Craswell, Ian Soboroff and Paul Thomas. At INEX (an evaluation of structured document retrieval, or XML-IR), I have started the entity ranking track.
Former projects include the NWO Open Competition Cirquid, the MultimediaN precursor MIA, and the Senter DMW and Waterland projects. Information about my first steps in research can be found (though rather outdated) at the Mirror Research Page.
Finally, I am member of ACM (SIGMOD and SIGIR), and a board member of the (Dutch) WGI, Vereniging Werkgemeenschap Informatiewetenschap (i.e., Society for Information Science).
Phone: +31-(0)20-592 4306