His research focus is at the interface of information retrieval and artificial intelligence, particularly search engines, recommender systems, and conversational assistants.

He is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) and an ELLIS Fellow.

De Rijke is the proud supervisor of 90 PhD students.

With an h-index of 87 De Rijke has published over 1000 papers, published or edited over a dozen books, is a former editor-in-chief of ACM Transactions on Information Systems, co-editor-in-chief of Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval and of Springer’s Information Retrieval book series, (associate) editor for various journals and book series, and a former coordinator of retrieval evaluation tracks at TREC, CLEF and INEX. He has been general (co)chair or program (co)chair for SIGIR, WSDM, WWW, CIKM, ECIR, ICTIR.

De Rijke has helped to generate over 200MEuro in project funding. He is a recipient of a Pioneer Personal Innovation grant, a Gravitation grant (with colleagues from around the Netherlands), a Long-Term Program grant, the Tony Kent Strix Award, the Bloomberg Data Science Research Award, the Criteo Faculty Research Award, the Google Faculty Research Award, the Microsoft PhD Research Fellowship Award, and the Yahoo Faculty and Research Engagement Program Award as well as a large number of NWO grants.

The retrieval technology developed by De Rijke and his team is being used by organizations around the Netherlands and beyond, and has given rise to various spin-off initiatives.