Current Students

  • Hrishita Chakrabarti

    Hrishita Chakrabarti is a PhD candidate in the Web Information Systems group at TU Delft with Dr. Maria Soledad Pera as her supervisor. She received her B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from VIT Vellore and her MSc in Computer Science from TU Delft. For her master’s thesis, Much ado about Accessibility , she empirically explored the accessibility of responses of popular online information-seeking tools to autistic users. As a part of the “Scaffolding to foster independence when children search Online for Learning” (SOL) project, her current research investigates the scaffolding needed in online search tools to improve search literacy skills in children as they search for information in a classroom setting.

  • Robin Ungruh

    Robin Ungruh is PhD candidate in the Web Information Systems group at TU Delft, supervised by Dr. Maria Soledad Pera. He obtained a BSc in Human-Computer-Interaction from the University of Hamburg and an MSc in Human-Computer-Interaction from Utrecht University. His research is centered on unraveling the complexities of children’s interactions with recommender systems, aiming to understand their experiences and developing methods to ensure safe interactions within this vulnerable user group.

  • AlisaRieger

    Alisa Rieger is a PhD candidate in the Web Information Systems group and an Early Stage Researcher in the NL4XAI project, supervised by Dr. Maria Soledad Pera. Currently, her research is focused on understanding web search on debated topics and mitigating cognitive biases that impede responsible opinion formation, for example, by boosting searchers’ intellectual humility. Before coming to TU Delft, Alisa obtained her BSc and MSc degrees in cognitive science and human-machine interaction from Chemnitz University of Technology.

Alumni

Devan Karsann (M.Sc.) Framework for Facilitating Human Expert Review of Websites for Intellectual Property Infringements (MS Project)

Garrett Allen (M.Sc.) Training Wheels for Web Search: Multi-Perspective Learning to Rank to Support Children’s Information Seeking in the Classroom Link to Thesis/Dissertation

Ashlee Milton (M.Sc.) Into the Unknown: Exploration of Search Engines’ Responses to Users with Depression and Anxiety Link to Thesis/Dissertation

Michael Green (M.Sc.) Why Don’t You Act Your Age?: Recognizing the Stereotypical 8-12 Year Old Searcher by Their Search Behavior Link to Thesis/Dissertation

Ion Madrazo Azpiazu (Ph.D.) Multilingual Information Retrieval: A representation building perspective Link to Thesis/Dissertation

Axel Magnuson (M.Sc.) Evaluation of Topic Models for Content-Based Popularity Prediction on Social Microblogs Link to Thesis/Dissertation

Deepa Mallela (M.Sc.) CEST: City Event Summarization using Twitter Link to Thesis/Dissertation

Nevena Dragovic (M.Sc.) When the System Becomes Your Personal Docent: Curating Recommendations to Satisfy User’s Needs and Expectations Link to Thesis/Dissertation

Ion Madrazo Azpiazu (M.Sc.) Towards Multipurpose Readability Assessment Link to Thesis/Dissertation

Oghenemaro Anuyah (M.Sc.) Fostering the Retrieval of Suitable Resources in Response to Children Educational Search Tasks Link to Thesis/Dissertation

Jennifer Ekstrand (M.Sc.)

Lawrence Spear (PhD)

David McNeill (B.Sc.)

William Bigirimana (B.Sc.)

Daniel Bakyono (B.Sc.)

Sharon Guo (B.Sc.)

Samantha Anguiano (B.Sc.)

Abel Almeida (B.Sc.)

** Students from the CAST project: Link to CAST