About CoChair
CoChair started as an idea I had on my way to CVPR earlier this year. It was my last big conference during my PhD, and I wanted to make sure I didn’t miss anything important. I wanted a quick, natural way to find the papers and talks relevant to my work and turn them into a simple daily plan. It also gave me an excuse to try vibecoding, which had been on my to-do list for a while.
It made conference exploration easier for me as a PhD student, and I’m sharing it in case it helps others too.
What You Can Do
Search in plain language
Describe your research interests and see papers that match.
Plan your visit
Browse by day or session and build a simple poster plan.
Filter by institution
Focus on work coming out of specific labs, universities, or groups.
View relevance scores
Get a sense of how closely each paper matches what you wrote.
How It Works
Write what you’re interested in
A sentence or two is enough.
Semantic search + re-ranking
Your text is compared to all papers using embeddings and a cross-encoder.
Explore and plan
Browse the results and build a simple schedule.
Privacy
Everything is anonymous. No personal data, IP addresses, or identifying information is collected. Searches are stored only in an anonymized form to understand general usage patterns, without anything that can be linked back to an individual. To improve relevance, public paper titles and a short keyword-only version of the query may be processed by a third-party language model. The full query text is not sent, and nothing sensitive or identifying is included.
Get in Touch
This is a small personal project, shared as-is. It’s still evolving, and I’m always open to thoughts and suggestions. If you have ideas, requests, or feedback, I’d genuinely appreciate hearing from you—the project grows through conversations with the community.
📧 Email: contact@cochair.dev