Preetam Dammu (PhD Student) and co-authors Himanshu Naidu (MSIM Alumnus) and Chirag Shah’s paper titled “Dynamic-KGQA: A Scalable Framework for Generating Adaptive Question Answering Datasets” was accepted to the International ACM Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2025). 

Ernesto Cuba (Postdoctoral Scholar) received the Carlos Monsiváis Prize for his article titled “I Named Myself After Her’: Renaming Strategies in a Community of Transgender Women of the City of Lima, Peru,” by the Sexualities Section of the Latin American Studies Association. This prize is awarded to the best original article or chapter in peer-reviewed books on sexualities in the social sciences. 

Kate Starbird was added as a new member of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) Advisory Board. Advisory Board members’ knowledge and experience will help guide EPIC’s efforts to educate the public and strengthen protections for privacy and civil liberties in an increasingly complex digital landscape.   

Saloni Dash (PhD Student) and co-authors Yiwei Xu (Postdoctoral Scholar), Maddy Jalbert (Postdoctoral Scholar), and Emma Spiro’s paper titled “The Persuasive Potential of AI-Paraphrased Information at Scale” was published in PNAS Nexus.  

Mouly Dewan (PhD Student) and co-authors Jiquan Liu (PhD Alumnus) and Chirag Shah’s paper titled “LLM-Driven Usefulness Labeling for IR Evaluation” was accepted to the International ACM Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2025).  

Maryam Amirizaniani (PhD Student) and co-authors Elias Martin, Afra Mashhadi, and Chirag Shah’s paper titled “Response Generation through Social Reasoning in Large Language Models with Direct Diverse Preferences Optimization” was accepted to the International ACM SIGIR Conference on Innovative Concepts and Theories in Information Retrieval (ICTIR 2025). 

Chirag Shah and co-authors Gianluca Demartini, Claudia Hauff, Matthew Lease, Stefano Mizzaro, Kevin Roitero, Mark Sanderson, Falk Scholer, Damiano Spina, Paul Thomas, Arjen de Vries, and Guido Zuccon’s paper titled “Preaching to the ChoIR: Lessons IR Should Share with AI” was accepted to the International ACM SIGIR Conference on Innovative Concepts and Theories in Information Retrieval (ICTIR 2025). 

Richard Lewei Huang (PhD Student) was a panelist and Moderator for “Artist Talks: Generative Technology and Art” at the Electronic Literature Organization 2025 Annual Conference. 

Joe Janes was featured in an episode of the podcast Documents that Changed the World titled “First Motion Picture Camera Patent, 1888.”