We are pleased to announce that the following researchers will stay at our laboratory for two months: Prof. Joeran Beel (Assistant Professor at Trinity College Dublin, MOU Grant), Siddharth Dinesh (internship student from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science), and Andrew Collins (internship student from Trinity College Dublin).

New members joined our lab: Kazutoshi Shinoda (Master’s student), Fink Tobias (Exchange student from TU Wien), and Darjush Siahdohoni (Exchange student from TU Darmstadt).

On March 23, the following students earned degrees from the University
of Tokyo: Giovanni Yoko Kristianto (PhD),
Hayato Hashimoto (MSc), Yusuke Kido (MSc), and Saku Sugawara (MSc).
On March 18, Akira Moroo, a research visiting student from the
Hamamoto Lab. at the Tokyo University of Science (TUS), earned a
degree from TUS (BEng).

New members joined our lab: Malte Schwarzer (Internship student from TU Berlin) and Jagrut Kosti (Internship student from Konstanz University).

A seminar was given by Jiaxin Mao, a PhD candidate at Tsinghua University and a visiting student at the Kando Laboratory of NII, under the title “When does relevance mean usefulness and user satisfaction in Web search?”