Diaz Inducted into SIGIR Academy

LTI Associate Professor Fernando Diaz has been inducted into the Academy of the Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval

LTI Associate Professor Fernando Diaz was recently honored with induction into the Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (SIGIR) Academy. 

The Academy was established "to honor and recognize individuals who have made significant, cumulative contributions to the development of the field of information retrieval (IR)," according to the SIGIR website. Inductees must have made "significant technical contributions (scientific or industrial) and/or significant community service contributions" to the IR community, through cumulative contributions to the field, impact of new research, influence on the work of others, and active participation in SIGIR.

SIGIR is a subgroup of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and is among the top organizations globally in the field of Information Retrieval.

Diaz, a member of the LTI faculty since 2023, focuses his IR research on the design of search engines that enhance meachine learning systems and support of "tip of the tongue" information needs. He also conducts research in the field of evaluation of language technologies, including the measurement of "unfairness" and other harms in language technologies, and the identification and measurement of the impact of artificial intelligence on cultural industries such as music, film and literature.