Behrooz Mansouri

Behrooz Mansouri

PhD, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA, 2022

Assistant Professor | Dept. of Computer Science
University of Southern Maine

  • Director of the Michael E. Dubyak Center
  • Director of Artificial Intelligence and Information Retrieval (AIIR) Lab
  • first name dot last name AT maine dot edu
  • +207-780-4240 / 01

Research Areas: Information Retrieval, Natural Language Processing, Multi-modal Data Analysis, & Machine Learning

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Latest News

  • AIIR Lab team participated in COLIEE and SimpleText 2026 competitions.
  • I am co-organizing Regional NSF CISE- Fall New England Regional AI & Quantum Information Science Symposium.
  • MathMex-PDF: Towards Accessible Visual Mathematics was presented by Nathaniel Serrano at SIGIR 2026.
  • We have 4 papers accepted at JCDL, including the Best Resource Paper, MAT-VB: MAthematical Text-Vision Benchmark.

Recent Publications

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Teaching

Upcoming & Recent
  • COS487/587Introduction to Information Retrieval (Fall 26)
  • COS285Data Structures (Fall 26)
  • COS570Research Seminar (Spring 26)
Past Courses
  • COS161Algorithms in Programming (Spring 26)
  • COS457Database Systems (Fall 25)
  • COS470Natural Language Processing (Spring 23)

Academic Service

Program Committee Member
  • ECIR: 2019 - 2026 (Nominated Outstanding Reviewer 2024)
  • SIGIR: 2022 - 2025 (Doctoral Consortium Co-chair)
  • JCDL: 2020 - 2023
  • CIKM: 2026 (Senior PC)
Workshops & Labs
  • Co-chair of Doctoral Consortium @ SIGIR 2025
  • Co-organizer of ARQMath lab @ CLEF: 2020, 2021, 2022
  • Dissemination Chair of Text2Story Workshop @ ECIR: 2020 - 2023