Chirag Shah

@chirag_shah

Professor, University of Washington; Research in AI, Search, Recommender Sys; Director, InfoSeeking; Co-Director, RAISE, Husband; Father; Mentor; TEDx Speaker.

Seattle, WA

Joined October 2008

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Chirag Shah@chirag_shah · May 10, 2024

My recent #TEDx talk on #AI is now live: 'What Could, Should, and Would AI Do?' or 'How to be a good 'parent' to AI' youtube.com/watch?v=rkB2Dj…

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ACM CHIIR 2026@ACM_CHIIR · Jul 25

Mark your calendars! 📅 📢 CHIIR 2026 Full Paper CFP is live: – Abstracts due: Oct 8, 2025 – Papers due: Oct 15, 2025 – Notifications: Dec 10, 2025 🔗 chiir2026.github.io #CHIIR2026 #SIGIR2025 #CHI @chirag_shah @ryen_white @JTrippas @adamfourney @HamedZamani @YashMosh

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Chirag Shah@chirag_shah · Jul 16

I always wanted to say "I'm thankful to the academy for this great recognition" [Oscars reference]. I also wanted to be in some kind of secret society. Now I can (kinda) do both! Thank you, SIGIR Academy for this great honor. Can't wait to learn the secret handshake! #SIGIR2025

chirag_shah's tweet image. I always wanted to say "I'm thankful to the academy for this great recognition" [Oscars reference]. I also wanted to be in some kind of secret society. Now I can (kinda) do both! Thank you, SIGIR Academy for this great honor. Can't wait to learn the secret handshake! #SIGIR2025

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Chirag Shah@chirag_shah · Jul 15

Shameless self-promotion! Check out the book on #GenIR edited by @ryen_white and me (with 9 chapters written by highly distinguished scholars) at the @SpringerNature booth at #SIGIR2025 link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…

chirag_shah's tweet image. Shameless self-promotion! Check out the book on #GenIR edited by @ryen_white and me (with 9 chapters written by highly distinguished scholars) at the @SpringerNature booth at #SIGIR2025 link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…

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Chirag Shah@chirag_shah · Jul 15

Hear about our vision of the what, why, and how of agents in our #SIGIR2025 perspectives paper tomorrow (Jul 16) "From To-Do to Ta-Da: Transforming Task-Focused IR with Generative AI" #AgenticIR dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/37… @ryen_white

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Chirag Shah@chirag_shah · Jul 14

#SIGIR2025 starts and it’s BIG!

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Information Matters@InfMatters · Jun 15

How Do You Like Them Agents? by @chirag_shah for #InformationMatters informationmatters.org/2025/06/how-do…

Chirag Shah@chirag_shah · Jun 16

My academic home for the next month: @IRIToulouse. Looking forward to learning from and collaborating with French scholars and students.

chirag_shah's tweet image. My academic home for the next month: @IRIToulouse. Looking forward to learning from and collaborating with French scholars and students.

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Chirag Shah@chirag_shah · Jun 12

It's been a great day in Paris at @VivaTech 2025, Europe's biggest startup and tech event with a panel today on search and AI. Join me again tomorrow on in Hall 1, Blue Stage for a debate on "AI is the new plastic"!

chirag_shah's tweet image. It's been a great day in Paris at @VivaTech 2025, Europe's biggest startup and tech event with a panel today on search and AI. Join me again tomorrow on in Hall 1, Blue Stage for a debate on "AI is the new plastic"!

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Chirag Shah@chirag_shah · Jun 10

It's time to think beyond prompt engineering and look at sustainable, replicable, generalizable, explainable, and trustworthy use of LLMs. See my latest article in @CACMmag that demonstrates how we can start to do this with humans in the loop: cacm.acm.org/research/from-…

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Chirag Shah@chirag_shah · Jun 1

The "good, bad, and ugly of agents" tour continues!

iinfoseeking@infoseeking1 · Jun 1

What's so different about AI agents this time around? Watch our lab director @chirag_shah talk about "AI Agents Renaissance" for @UW AI Perspectives Speaker Series: youtube.com/watch?v=KWPx4o…

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Chirag Shah@chirag_shah · May 25

I am honored to be a part of @VivaTech 2025, Europe' s biggest startup & tech event, as a speaker this year! Can't wait to join other thought leaders in discussing the latest trends in AI and search on stage this June. vivatechnology.com

chirag_shah's tweet card. VivaTech is the world’s rendezvous for startups and leaders to celebrate innovation. It’s a gathering of the world’s brightest minds, talents, and products.

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infoseeking@infoseeking1 · May 23

New Research Alert! How can we make recommender systems smarter about what users actually want? Check out this new study by our InfoSeeker @MAmirizaniani &Prof. @chirag_shah introducing a Task-based Graph Neural Network (TGNN) dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.114… #RecommendationSystems

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Communications of the ACM@CACMmag · May 9

"From Prompt Engineering to Prompt Science with Humans in the Loop," by @Chirag_Shah /@UW_iSchool, shows how outcomes from #LLMs are validated & proven trustworthy by creating a verifiable, replicable method of #promptscience that aids #promptengineering. bit.ly/4daxNAD

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ACM CHIIR 2026@ACM_CHIIR · Apr 8

🎉 CHIIR 2025 has officially concluded. Huge thanks to organising teams, keynote speakers, presenters, volunteers, and everyone who joined us — see you next year in Seattle, @chirag_shah @ryen_white ! 👋 @GeorgeRBuchanan @HaimingLiu1 @DanaChatter @IR_oldie @JTrippas @damiano10

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infoseeking@infoseeking1 · Mar 17

InfoSeekers present research on reasoning in LLMs & web agents at #WSDM2025! Maryam @MAmirizaniani explores LLMs' Theory of Mind reasoning & memorization impact Preetam @preetams7 examines challenges in user-aligned task execution More details in the thread⤵ #LLMs #IR #WebAgents

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infoseeking@infoseeking1 · Mar 17

Amirizaniani, M. Mind Over Machine: Evaluating Theory of Mind Reasoning in LLMs and Humans. In Proceedings of the Eighteenth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (pp. 1068-1070). dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/37… #LLMs #Reasoning #WebAgents #IR #WSDM2025

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Communications of the ACM@CACMmag · Mar 17

"Panmodal Information Interaction," by @Ryen_White (@MSFTResearch) & @Chirag_Shah (@UW_iSchool), says emerging modalities fueled by foundation models such as @Google @GeminiApp and @OpenAI GPT-4o have created new possibilities for information interaction. bit.ly/3DImDWL

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Information Matters@InfMatters · Mar 11

"Here Come Agents" by @chirag_shah for #InformationMatters informationmatters.org/2025/02/here-c…

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Lance Scoular🧭🌐The Savvy Navigator@LanceScoular · Jan 21

📗 Information Access in the Era of Generative AI Editors: @ryen_white @chirag_shah Publisher: @SpringerNature 📚📔📕📙📗📘 @LanceScoular 🔹The Savvy Navigator🧭🌐 #amazoninfluencer #book #ad #amazonbooks #fromtheauthorsmouth #information #access #ai amazon.com/Information-Ac…

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SSRN@SSRN · Jan 19

It is clear that #AI unchecked has potentials to cause great harms. Can we control or contain AI such that we can stop those harms? It's not easy. Read: spkl.io/6014f9wGa Subscribe: spkl.io/6018f9wG0 #InformationMatters #AICommunity @InfMatters @chirag_shah

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