About

Avishek Anand is an Associate Professor in the Web Information Systems (WIS). His research aims to develop intelligent and transparent machine learning approaches to help humans find relevant information. Specifically, he is interested in Explainable Information Retrieval. He holds a PhD in computer science from the Max Planck Insitute for Informatics, Saarbrücken. Previously, he was an Assistant professor in Information Retrieval in Lebniz University Hannover. His research is supported by Amazon research awards, Schufa Gmbh, BMBF, and EU Horizon 2020. He is also a member of the L3S Research Center and a visiting scholar in Amazon Search.

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