Falk Scholer

I'm a Professor of Information Access and Retrieval Technologies in the School of Computing Technologies at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia.

My research focuses on understanding how tools such as web search engines, recommender systems, chatbots and LLMs can assist users to resolve their information needs, and how their effectiveness can be measured. This includes the fairness, accountability, transparency and ethics of AI and algorithms.

I'm a founding Director of the RMIT Centre for Human-AI Information Environments (CHAI), a research centre that brings together experts from the computing, information and social sciences to solve problems on information access and retrieval.

I teach a range of courses, including web development and programming, data science, HCI, databases, and information retrieval.

I am also passionate about research ethics, and currently serve as the Deputy Chair of the RMIT Human Research Ethics Committee (HREC).