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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
May 2, 2024 Our paper on the role of user profile in the personalization of LLMs is out!
Apr 2, 2024 LLMJudge challenge is officially launched! The LLMJudge challenge aims to explore an alternative approach by using LLMs to generate relevance judgments. Website / GitHub
Mar 23, 2024 Serving as PC for ACL and EMNLP 2024 🤗
Mar 20, 2024 Can we build a reliable synthetic test collection for evaluation? To answer this question please check our recent paper on the construction fully synthetic test collection for IR evaluation which has been accepted by SIGIR ‘24 🥳.
Feb 23, 2024 Serving as PC for SIGIR 2024 and RecSys 2024 :smile:
Feb 2, 2024 Gave a talk at the University of Gonabad on An Intro to AI: From Traditional ML to LLMs.
Jan 10, 2024 Our paper on multi-stakeholder fairness, A Personalized Framework for Consumer and Producer Group Fairness Optimization in Recommender Systems, has been accepted by ACM TORS 🎉
Jan 5, 2024 Our full paper on user satisfaction in asking clarification questions accepted by EACL 2024 🎯
Jan 4, 2024 Serving as PC for LTEDI@EACL ‘24.
Jan 1, 2024 LLM4Eval workshop proposal has been accepted to SIGIR 2024 🥳! The main focus of LLM4Eval is utilizing the capabilities and responsibilities of LLMs for evaluation in IR.
Nov 24, 2023 I presented a tutorial on Fairness in Recommender System for MSc students of Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Development course at UCL. Check the GitHub repository.
Nov 17, 2023 Our team ranked 1st in TREC iKAT 2023 🥇🎉. We submitted Retrieve-then-Generate and Generate-then-Retrieve models, combining LLMs and Search for Conversational Search.
Nov 17, 2023 I attend The Text Retrieval Conference (TREC) 2023 conference as part of the Deep Learning Track organisers and presented our findings on using Synthetic Queries to build Test Collections. Website / Paper / Slides
Aug 1, 2023 We are organising WITalk, a seminar series that invite researchers to present, share and discuss their research findings in IR and NLP, at UCL AI Center.
Jul 9, 2023 I delivered a presentation at CS Reading Group at Qazvin Islamic Azad University (QIAU) on Fairness and Bias in Recommender Systems.
May 30, 2023 Our Survey paper on Asking Clarification Question (ACQSurvey) accepted at ACL 2023 Main Track! See publication page.
Mar 23, 2023 I attened UCL AI Center Hackathon.
Mar 23, 2023 I gave a talk at DEFirst Reading Group at Mila x Vector Institute on Generazibility of User Fairness in Recommender Systems. See services page.
Mar 23, 2023 Serving as PC for RecSys’23 and ICTIR’23.
Feb 23, 2023 Serving as PC for SIGIR’23 and EWAF’23. :smile:
Dec 1, 2022 Joining WI Group at UCL as a PhD student. :sparkles:
Nov 28, 2022 Our team, UCL-WI-Group, won the research prize at IGLU challenge for providing novel solutions!
Feb 20, 2022 Two full papers accepted at Bias@ECIR ‘22! See publication page.