His research concerns entity-oriented and semantic search. He has co-organized several SIGIR workshops on entity-oriented search as well as the TREC Entity track, and serves as area chair for IR and Structured Data at SIGIR 2013. Daan Odijk, MSc is a PhD candidate at the University of Amsterdam under supervision of Prof. Dr. Maarten de Rijke. Daan’s main research interests include information retrieval, text mining, machine learning, and information visualization. His PhD research involves exploring background information through automatic entity linking. He has previously taught courses and specialized tutorials on text mining, collective intelligence, and information visualization.