• Professor and Head of Data Science group at Department of Computer Science, University of Innsbruck
• Deputy Head of Digital Science Center
• Deputy Head of Research Center Digital Humanities

• 2021 - now: Full Professor at Department of Computer Science & Digital Science Center at the University of Innsbruck, Austria
• 2010 - 2020: Associate Professor at Department of Social Informatics, Kyoto University, Japan
• 2019 - 2023: Visiting Professor at National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan
• 2011 - 2015: Affiliated researcher at Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Japan
• 2006 - 2010: Assistant Professor at Department of Social Informatics, Kyoto University, Japan
• 2005 - 2006: Research Fellow at National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan

• Summer 2022 and 2023: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
• Summer 2018: L3I Laboratory, University of La Rochelle, France
• Winter 2012: School of Information, University of California at Berkeley, USA

• 2002 - 2005: Ph.D. in Information Science and Technology, University of Tokyo, Japan
• 1996 - 2001: M.Sc. in Electronics and Telecommunications, Technical University of Lodz, Poland

• Temporal aspects in natural language processing and information retrieval
• Novel NLP and IR solutions for digital history
• Automatic hint generation
• Retrieval-augmented Large Language Models
• Probing Large Language Models
• Text temporal validity and obsoleteness
• Future forecasting (aka. future opinion summarization)
• Complex question answering
• Computational history and collective memory analysis

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List of publications after 2021

List of publications before 2021

• PC Chair of ECIR 2026
• Steering Committee member of JCDL, TPDL and ICADL
• Area Chair of ARR (Feb 2025 cycle)
• Area Chair of ECML-PKDD 2025
• Senior PC member of SIGIR 2025, SIGIR 2024, SIGIR 2023
• Senior PC member of WSDM 2025, WSDM 2024, WSDM 2023
• Senior PC member of ECAI 2025, ECAI 2024
• Organizer of ICDAR 2025 Competition (CoLiE)
• Organizer of Text2Story workshops 2018-2025
• Area Chair of COLING-LREC 2024
• Senior PC member of CIKM 2025, CIKM 2024, CIKM 2023
• Senior PC member of ECIR 2024, ECIR 2023
• Senior PC member of JCDL 2018-2024
• Organizer of the JOKER Track at CLEF 2024, CLEF 2023
• Senior PC member of SIGIR-AP 2023
• PC Chair of ICONIP 2022 (Int. Conference on Neural Information Processing with >1k submissions)
• Area Chair of EACL 2021
• General Chair of TPDL 2019
• PC Chair of JCDL 2017
• …

• Top-cited paper in the Information Sciences journal by Elsevier (IF: 8.23) over the last 5 years
• Best master thesis award at Dept. of Comp. Science of Univ. of Innsbruck by a supervised student (Georg Wenzel)
• Best paper award at ECIR 2023
• Runner-up for the Best Demo Paper Award at CIKM 2023
• Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
• International Excellence Fellowship from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
• Database Society of Japan Young Researcher's Achievement and Contribution Award
• Vannevar Bush Best Paper Award at JCDL 2021 (award sponsored by SIGIR and SIGWEB)
• Industrial Impact Paper Honorable Mention at ECIR 2020
• Best Paper Award at DEIM 2020 (annual conference of the Database Society of Japan with more than 600 attendees)
• Best Student Paper Award at DEIM 2019 (annual conference of the Database Society of Japan)
• Best Demo Paper Award at ECIR 2019
• Best Student Paper Award at APWeb/WAIM 2019
• Runner-up for Best Paper Award at COLING 2018
• Best Short Paper Award at ECIR 2018
• 1st place in Arquivo.pt Prizes 2018 Competition for innovative access proposals to the Portuguese Web Archive (prize: €10k and a total of 27 participating teams)
• Runner-up for Vannevar Bush Best Paper Award at JCDL 2018
• Database Society of Japan Kambayashi Young Researcher Award
• Runner-up for the Vannevar Bush Best Paper Award at JCDL 2016
• Runner-up for Best Paper Award at WI 2015
• Runner-up for the Vannevar Bush Best Paper Award at JCDL 2007
• Best Student Paper Award at APWeb/WAIM 2007
• …