The CIIR organized a reunion held on July 17, 2024 in Washington D.C. during SIGIR 2024. Over 30 current and former members of the CIIR were in attendance for this reception. In attendance at the event (pictured left to right, top to bottom): Jin Young Kim, Ben Carterette, Mark Smucker, Yaxin Zhu, Andrew Drozdov, Youngho Kim, Don Metzler, Xiaoyan Li, James Allan, Zhigang Zhu, Fernando Diaz, Laura Dietz, Sheikh Muhammad Sarwar, Alireza Salemi, Shiri Dori-Hacohen, Julian Killingback, Nazanin Jafari, Hansi Zeng, Mahta Rafiee, Chris Samarinas, Vanessa Murdock, Negin Rahimi, Jeff Dalton, Michael Bendersky, Chirag Shah, Yongfeng Zhang, Kyle Whitecross, Nguyen Tran, Jeremy Pickens, Jean Joyce, Mark Sanderson, Jamie Callan, Hamed Zamani, and (not pictured) Dawn Lawrie.
We'll post future CIIR gatherings on our newly created CIIR Alumni LinkedIn group, so we encourage you to join the group.