Johanne Trippas
Dr Johanne Trippas is a Vice-Chancellor’s Senior Research Fellow at RMIT University, Australia.
I am a Vice-Chancellor’s Senior Research Fellow at the School of Computing Technologies, STEM College. I am interested in Intelligent Systems, in particular, next-generation capabilities for digital assistants, including spoken conversational search, collection of complex datasets and task progression through ubiquitous sensing. I am also working with Ambulance Victoria, using artificial intelligence (AI) to efficiently identify cardiac arrest emergency calls, thus accelerating critical care.
I have built an international reputation as a leader in conversational AI and information seeking research, especially at the intersection of conversational systems, interactive information retrieval (IIR), human-computer interaction (HCI), and dialogue analysis, with the aim of making information more accessible. Previously, I was a Doreen Thomas Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne.
For 2027, Johannes Kiesel and I are organising the Fifth International Conference on the Design of Experimental Search & Information REtrieval Systems (DESIRES), the conference for discussing visionary ideas in search and retrieval systems.
In 2025, Shane Culpepper and I organised the Fourth Strategic Workshop on Information Retrieval (SWIRL), where we discussed the future of information retrieval research. Our primary goal was to revise the IR research manifesto developed at SWIRL3. The report is published in SIGIR Forum.
“The future of search is not just about finding information but about creating meaningful connections.”
Johanne Trippas
I completed my PhD in Computer Science, focusing on Conversational Systems at RMIT University in 2019 under the supervision of Professor Lawrence Cavedon, Professor Mark Sanderson, and Dr Damiano Spina. I am awarded the RMIT University Deputy Vice-Chancellor’s Higher Degree by Research Prize for my doctoral work and thesis.
I have been appointed as Vice-Chair of the ACM SIGIR Artifact Evaluation Committee (AEC), which promotes the reproducibility of research results.