Emergent IR Project

Ran Yu
Dr. Ran Yu

Ran is a principal investigator in this project and a Senior Researcher at GESIS. She has extensive research experience in the fields of information retrieval, with a special focus on online learning scenarios, knowledge graphs, and the modeling of multi-modal data.

Stefan Dietze
Prof. Stefan Dietze

Stefan is a principal investigator in this project and Scientific Director of the KTS department at GESIS. Additionally, he holds a professorship in Data & Knowledge Engineering at HHU. His research interests are at the intersection of information retrieval, knowledge graphs, NLP, and machine learning.

Alisa Rieger
Dr. Alisa Rieger

Alisa joined the project as a Postdoctoral Researcher at GESIS after earning her PhD from TU Delft. In her research, she focuses on human information interaction, with an interest in understanding and addressing socio-technical challenges related to information access technologies.

Vitalii Hirak
Vitalii Hirak

Vitalii joined the project as a PhD candidate at HHU after obtaining his Master's degree in Language and Communication Technologies from Saarland University and University of Groningen. As a researcher, he's interested in information retrieval, computational linguistics, and natural language processing.