Adam Jatowt
Scholar

Adam Jatowt

Google Scholar ID: l2vn9GoAAAAJ
Professor at Univ. of Innsbruck (previously Kyoto Univ.)
question answeringlarge language modelsinformation retrievalRAG
Citations & Impact
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Citations
6,020
 
H-index
32
 
i10-index
114
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
24
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • - 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's 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
  • - 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 Vannevar Bush Best Paper Award at JCDL 2016
  • - Runner-up for Best Paper Award at WI 2015
Research Experience
  • - 2021 - present: Full Professor at the Department of Computer Science & Digital Science Center, University of Innsbruck, Austria
  • - 2010 - 2020: Associate Professor at the 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 the Department of Social Informatics, Kyoto University, Japan
  • - 2005 - 2006: Research Fellow at National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan
  • - Visiting Scholar:
  • - Autumn 2025: University of Toulouse, France
  • - Summer 2022 and 2023: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
  • - Summer 2018: University of La Rochelle, France
  • - Winter 2012: University of California at Berkeley, USA
Education
  • - 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
Background
  • Research interests include 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.