Hossein A. Rahmani

PhD Student • Web Intelligence Group (WI)UCL Centre for Artificial IntelligenceUCL

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hossein.rahmani.22@ucl.ac.uk

rahmanidashti@gmail.com

UCL AI Centre
90 High Holborn
University College London

I am currently a third-year PhD student in Computer Science at the University College London (UCL), affiliated with Web Intelligence Group (WI) at UCL Centre for Artificial Intelligence (UCL AI Center). I am fortunate to be advised by Prof. Emine Yilmaz and Nick Craswell. Prior to joining UCL, I obtained an MSc in Computer Science from the University of Zanjan (ZNU), where I was advised by Prof. Mohsen Afsharchi and Dr. Mitra Baratchi (co-supervisor from Leiden University) and worked on context-aware recommender systems.

I am interested in creating machine learning algorithms that can make strong decisions in complex environments while continually learning new skills. My goal is to develop models that can handle a variety of new tasks with minimal supervision. I am also focused on making these systems reliable, trustworthy, and aligned with human goals.

CV / Google Scholar

recent news [news]

Oct 3, 2024 I have been awarded the prestigious doctoral enrichment placement by The Alan Turing Institute. I will be focusing on understanding the capabilities of foundation models and LLM evaluation. UCL AI Center News :sparkles:
Oct 1, 2024 Our work, SynDL, has been featured in Miscrosoft Research Focus blog series. 🥳
Sep 2, 2024 We are happy to release our large-scale synthetic test collection for passage retrieval evaluation: SynDL: A Large-Scale Synthetic Test Collection for Passage Retrieval is out! Website / GitHub
Aug 23, 2024 Serving as PC for FAccTRec ‘24 and SURE ‘24.
Jul 2, 2024 Checkout our LLM4Eval Report: Report on the 1st Workshop on Large Language Model for Evaluation in Information Retrieval (LLM4Eval 2024) at SIGIR 2024

selected publications [publications]

  1. Bias@ECIR
    The Unfairness of Active Users and Popularity Bias in Point-of-Interest Recommendation
    Hossein A. Rahmani, Yashar Deldjoo, Ali Tourani, and Mohammadmehdi Naghiaei
    Third International Workshop on Algorithmic Bias in Search and Recommendation (Bias@ECIR), 2022
  2. ECIR
    Joint Geographical and Temporal Modeling based on Matrix Factorization for Point-of-Interest Recommendation
    Hossein A. Rahmani, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Mitra Baratchi, and Fabio Crestani
    European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR), 2020