Teaching

BSc and MSc thesis supervision

I have supervised more than 45 BSc and MSc projects in the broad areas of information retrieval, natural language processing and data science. A few examples can be found below:

• The Impact of Group Size on Collaborative Search (MSc)
• The Learning Tracker (MSc)
• Context-Based Spelling Correction for the Dutch Language: Applied on spelling errors extracted from the Dutch Wikipedia revision history (MSc)
• A Multi-Language Comparison of Influences on Author Verification using Character N-Grams (MSc)
• Evaluating Collaborative Search for a Learning-Oriented Search Task (MSc)
• MANtIS: a novel information seeking dialogues dataset (MSc)
• Axiomatic Thinking in Neural IR (MSc)
• Presenting Web Search Results over a Speech-Only Channel with Minimal Cognitive Load (BSc)
• Expanding LogUI: Adding Screen Capturing and a Statistical Analysis Dashboard for Web-Based Experiments (Bsc)
• EGA Membership Card System (BSc)
• Search Assistant: Effect of Chatbot on User’s Collaborative Search Behavior (BSc)

Courses

Below are the resources I have developed for my courses (some are more up-to-date than others): Big Data Processing, Web and Database Technology and Information Retrieval.

Big Data Processing

Between 2013/14 and 2016/17 I taught the second year Bachelor course Big Data Processing at TU Delft. The course covered a range of technologies in the Hadoop ecosystem after a short excursion into the streaming world; I created the material based on a number of books, including Mining of Massive Datasets, Data-Intensive Text Processing with MapReduce, Hadoop: The Definite Guide, Programming Pig and ZooKeeper.

Slides - 2016/17 Edition

• Introduction
• Streams I
• Streams II
• MapReduce
• HDFS/GFS
• Scheduling
• Algorithm design for MapReduce
• Pig I
• Pig II
• Graph algorithms
• Giraph
• ZooKeeper
• 2 more lecture on Spark completed this course.

Assignments - 2016/17 edition

• Assignment 1: Streaming
• Assignment 2: Streaming and Hadoop
• Assignment 3: Hadoop
• Assignment 4: Pig data
• Assignment 5: Pig data
• Assignment 6: Giraph
• Assignment 7: Spark

A Sample of Previous Exams

• Resit 2013/14
• Final 2014/15
• Resit 2014/15
• Final 2015/16
• Final 2016/17

Interactive quizzes

• 24 questions on streaming
• 32 questions on MapReduce/Hadoop
• 10 questions on graphs and Giraph
• 12 questions on Pig/Pig Latin

Web (and Database) Technology

Between 2013/14 and 2021/22 I co-taught the first year Bachelor course Web and Database Technology at TU Delft. I taught the Web technology part, which turned out to be quite a challenge due to the wide variety of skill sets our incoming students possess (some work as Web developers, others have never written a single line of HTML before the start of this course) and the ever-changing nature of web technologies.

Information Retrieval

Between 2017/18 and 2021/22 I co-taught the MSc course Information Retrieval at TU Delft, which was split along an IR and NLP line. The course setup, slides and group projects for the 2019/20 edition can be found here.