Professor Falk Scholer
Details
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Department: School of Computing Technologies
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Campus: City Campus Australia
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falk.scholer@rmit.edu.au
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ORCID:
0000-0001-9094-0810
Open to
- Collaborative projects
- Industry Projects
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision
- Membership of an advisory committee
- Media enquiries
- Join a web conference as a panellist or speaker
About
I'm a Professor of Information Access and Retrieval in the discipline of Interaction, Technology & Information, in the School of Computing Technologies at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia.
My research in the area of information access and retrieval focuses on understanding how tools such as search engines, recommender systems, chatbots and LLMs can assist users to resolve their information needs, and how their effectiveness can be measured.
Research fields
- 4605 Data management and data science
- 460508 Information retrieval and web search
- 461003 Human information interaction and retrieval
- 4608 Human-centred computing
- 460806 Human-computer interaction
- 460808 Mixed initiative and human-in-the-loop
- 461002 Human information behaviour
- 460501 Data engineering and data science
- 460805 Fairness, accountability, transparency, trust and ethics of computer systems
UN sustainable development goals
- 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
- 10 Reduced Inequalities
- 4 Quality Education
Academic positions
- Director
- RMIT University
- Centre for Human-AI Information Environments (CHAI)
- Melbourne, Australia
- 10 May 2024 – Present
Supervisor projects
- Generative AI Agents for Research and Data Analysis
- 28 Oct 2025
- Pricing the Data Assets for Data Sharing, Discovery, and Integration
- 30 Jun 2025
- Towards an Economical Storage and Distributed Processing of Billion-scaled Trajectory Data
- 30 Jun 2025
- Deep Learning-based Trajectory Data Processing and Analysis
- 30 Jun 2025
- Development of Socially Adaptive Robot to lessen anxiety through two-channel data sources and Reinforcement Learning
- 3 Jan 2024
- Measuring Information Behaviors and Cognitive Bias Using Wearables
- 22 Mar 2022
- Global Fairness or Local Fairness
- 18 Jan 2022
- Complex Answer Retrieval
- 2 Sep 2021
- Fairness-Aware Question Answering for Intelligent Assistants
- 15 Oct 2020
- Realising the Ideal Test Collection
- 11 Sep 2020
- New Perspectives on Query Performance Prediction
- 13 Sep 2019
- Multi-Document Non-Factoid Question Answering
- 27 Aug 2019
- Evaluating Engaging Clarification Questions in Information Retrieval
- 26 Jun 2019
- Building a community of social attachable Non-Playable Characters within multiple gaming environments
- 30 Aug 2018
- Evaluating Dynamic Search Systems for Interactive Complex Tasks
- 7 Mar 2016
- Managing Tail Latency in Large Scale Information Retrieval Systems
- 22 Feb 2016
- Influence of Geographic Biases on Geolocation Prediction in Twitter
- 17 Aug 2015
- Topic Difficulty and Order of Document Presentation in Relevance Assessments
- 27 Feb 2015
- Answer-biased Summarization
- 3 Nov 2014
- Search Behavior and Relevance Judgments in Different Search Environments
- 27 Jul 2014
- Transfer learning for information retrieval
- 21 Jul 2014
Teaching interests
Web Programming, Data Science, Databases, Research Methods
Research interests
Interactive information access and retrieval
Misinformation, fake news and fact-checking
Generative artificial intelligence
Evaluation and measurement
Fairness, accountability, transparency and ethics of systems and algorithms
User analytics, relevance and perception
Document summarisation
Enterprise and e-commerce search
Biomedical search
