Formal name: Prof.dr.ir. A.P. de Vries
Function: Group leader, Scientific Staff Member
Email: Arjen.de.Vries@cwi.nl
Telephone: +31(0)20 592 4306
Room: L333
Homepage: http://www.cwi.nl/~arjen/
Research groups: Information Access
Research
Arjen de Vries is a tenured researcher at CWI, where he leads the Interactive Information Access research group, and a full professor (0.2 fte) in the area of multimedia data management at the Technical University of Delft. De Vries is especially interested in the integration of (multimedia) information retrieval and database systems. He has worked on topics including (multimedia) information retrieval, database architecture, query processing, retrieval system evaluation, and ambient intelligence. He participated in EU project VITALAS leading the information retrieval work package and in Dutch national project MultimediaN as (assistant) project leader of the semantic access project. De Vries is a member of the EU PetaMedia Network of Excellence through his Delft affiliation, initiating the Data Collection integrated research project. He coordinates the Entity Ranking track at TREC.
Career
| 2013 - | Scientific staff member IA - Information access |
| 2013 - | Group leader IA - Information access |
| 2011 - 2013 | Group leader INS2 - Interactive Information Access |
| 2009 - 2010 | Scientific staff member INS2 - Interactive Information Access |
| 2008 - | Full professor (0.2 fte) at the Delft University of Technology |
| 2003 - 2008 | Scientific staff member INS1 - Database Architectures |
| 1999 - 2003 | Researcher INS1 - Database Architectures |
Selected Awards and Honours
| 2007 | Best student paper, ECIR 2007 |
| 2004 | Best student paper, CIVR 2004 |
Selected Academic Activities
| 2012 | Chair program committee Barcelona, Spain - European Conference on Information Retrieval - [ECIR] |
| 2012 - | Chair program committee Universiteit van Amsterdam - [UvA] - European Conference on Information Retrieval - [ECIR] |
| 2011 | Chair program committee Glasgow, UK - ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management - [CIKM] |
| 2009 - | Member steering committee Initiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval - [INEX] |
| 2009 - | Member of program committee Text REtrieval Conference - [TREC] |
| 2007 | Co-organizer Amsterdam, The Netherlands - ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval - [SIGIR] |
| 2007 - | Member editorial board Journal: Information Retrieval |
Selected Publications
| V. Hollink, T. Tsikrika, Arjen P. de Vries. Semantic search log analysis: a method and a study on professional image search. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 62, 691–713, 2011. |
| T. Tsikrika, C. Diou, Arjen P. de Vries, A. Delopoulos. Reliability and effectiveness of clickthrough data for automatic image annotation. International Journal on Multimedia Tools and Applications 55, 27–52, 2010. |
| J. Wang, Arjen P. de Vries, M.J.T. Reinders. Unified relevance models for rating prediction in collaborative filtering. ACM Transactions on Information Systems 26, 1–42, 2008. |
| R. Cornacchia, S. Héman, M. Zukowski, Arjen P. de Vries, P.A. Boncz. Flexible and efficient IR using array databases. VLDB Journal 17, 151–168, 2008. |
| H.M. Blanken(editor), Arjen P. de Vries(editor), H.E. Blok(editor), L. Feng(editor). Multimedia Retrieval (Data-Centric Systems and Applications). , Data-centric systems and applications Springer., 2007. |
| R. Cornacchia, Arjen P. de Vries. A parameterised search system. Advances in Information Retrieval, 29th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2007, Rome, Italy, 4–15, 2007. |
| J.A. List, V. Mihajlovic, G. Ramirez, Arjen P. de Vries, D. Hiemstra, H.E. Blok. TIJAH: embracing IR methods in XML databases. Information Retrieval 8, 547–570, 2005. |
