April 2024
✅I have passed my PhD second comprehensive exam. Officially a PhD candidate now !
March 2024
🏆Our paper "Context-Aware Query Term Difficulty Estimation for Performance Prediction" was received honorable mention award at ECIR 2024.
W/ Abbas Saleminezhad, Ebrahim Bagheri and Soosan Beheshti.
📚Our paper "Ranked List Truncation: From Retrieval to Re-ranking" got accepted at SIGIR 2024.
W/ Chuan Meng, Arian Askari, Mohammad Aliannejadi and Maarten de rijke
✈️I attended ECIR 2024 in Glasgow, Scotland.
💬 I gave a keynote talk at The 1st international workshop on Open Web Search #Wows2024 @ECIR2024
💬 I gave a talk at The Search Futures workshop @ECIR2024
✈️I attended EACL2024 in Malta.
February 2024
🗃️I started c0-organizing SIGIR Virtual Forum Lean and Learn series.
💬 I gave a talk at UCL Web Intelligence Group.
January 2024
📚Our paper "Fréchet Distance for Offline Evaluation of Information Retrieval Systems with Sparse Labels " got accepted at EACL 2024.
W/ Charles Clarke
December 2023
✅ I finished my internship in Microsoft Research.
📚Our paper "LaQuE: Enabling Entity Search at Scale" got accepted at ECIR 2024.
W/ Amin Bigdeli and Ebrahim Bagheri
📚Our paper "Adapting Standard Retrieval Benchmarks to Evaluate Generated Answers" got accepted at ECIR 2024.
W/ Amin Bigdeli and Charles Clarke
📚Our paper "Context-Aware Query Term Difficulty Estimation for Performance Prediction" got accepted at ECIR 2024.
W/ Abbas Saleminezhad, Ebrahim Bagheri and Soosan Beheshti.
📚Our paper "Learning to Jointly Transform and Rank Difficult Queries" got accepted at ECIR 2024.
W/ Amin Bigdeli and Ebrahim Bagheri.
📚Our paper "BertPE: a BERT-Based Pre-retrieval Estimator for Query Performance Prediction" got accepted at ECIR 2024.
W/ Fattane Zarrinkalam and Maryam Khodabakhsh
📚Our paper "Estimating Query Performance Through Rich Contextualized Query Representations" got accepted at ECIR 2024.
W/ Sajad Ebrahimi, Maryam khodabakhsh and Ebrahim Bagheri.
🧑🏫Our tutorial "Query Performance Prediction: From Fundamentals to Advanced Techniques" got accepted at ECIR 2024.
W/ Chuan Meng, Mohammad Aliannejadi and Ebrahim Bagheri.
📚Our demo paper "KnowFIRES: a Knowledge-graph Framework for Interpreting Retrieved Entities from Search" got accepted at ECIR 2024.
W/ Kiarash Golzadeh, Christopher Risi, Charles Clarke and Jian Zhao.
📚Our paper "BertPE: a BERT-Based Pre-retrieval Estimator for Query Performance Prediction" got accepted at ECIR 2024.
W/ Fattane Zarrinkalam and Maryam Khodabakhsh
November 2023
💬 I gave a talk at Information Retrieval (IR) group at the University of Glasgow.
September 2023
👩💻 I Joined Microsoft Research, Redmond as a Research Intern.
✈️Finally I am doing this internship in person! First time in the USA!
W/ Ebrahim Bagheri
W/ Siqing Huo and Charles Clarke
August 2023
📚Our paper " Noisy Perturbations for Estimating Query Difficulty in Dense Retrievers" got accepted in CIKM 2023.
W/ Radin Hamidi Rad, Maryam Khodabakhsh and Ebrahim Bagheri
📚Our paper " Neural Disentanglement of Query Difficulty and Semantics" got accepted in CIKM 2023.
W/ Sara Salamat, Amin Bigdeli, Shirin Seyedsalehi, Morteza Zihayat and Ebrahim Bagheri
July 2023
✈️I attended SIGIR 2023 in Taipei, Taiwan.
June 2023
💰 I won SIGIR Travel Award to attend SIGIR and ICTIR Conference in Taiwan.
📚Our paper "A is for Adele: An Offline Evaluation Metric for Instant Search" got accepted in ICTIR 2023.
W/ Oleksandra Kmet, Ben Carterette, Charles Clarke, Claudia Hauff and Praveen Chandar
📚Our paper "Retrieving Supporting Evidence for LLMs Generated Answers" got accepted in Retrieval Enhanced Machine Learning Workshop at SIGIR 2023.
W/ Siqing Huo and Charles Clarke
May 2023
💰 I won AMII Talent Bursary Award to attend Upper Bound conference in Edmonton, Alberta.
April 2023
💰 I won Cheriton Scholarship for a value of $20,000.
💬 I presented our journal paper "Shallow Pooling for Sparse Labels" at ECIR 2023.
💬 We gave a tutorial on "Understanding and Mitigating Gender Bias
in Information Retrieval Systems" at ECIR 2023.
W/ Amin Bigdeli, Shirin Seyedsalehi, Morteza Zihayat and Ebrahim Bagheri
✈️I attended ECIR 2023 in Dublin, Ireland.
📚Our paper "Query Performance Prediction: From Ad-hoc to Conversational Search" got accepted in SIGIR 2023.
W/ Chuan Meng,Mohammad Aliannejadi and Maarten de Rijke
📚Our paper "A Preference Judgment Tool for Authoritative Assessment" got accepted in SIGIR 2023.
W/ Mahsa Seifikar, Linh Nhi Phan Minh, Mark Smucker and Charles Clarke
📚Our paper "Quantifying Ranker Coverage of Different Query Subspaces" got accepted in SIGIR2023.
W/ Amin Bigdeli,Radin Hamidi Rad and Ebrahim Bagheri
February 2023
💬 We gave a tutorial on "Preference-based Offline Evaluation" at WSDM 2023.
W/ Fernando Diaz and Charles L.A Clarke
✈️I attended WSDM 2023 in Singapore.
✔️I finished my internship at Google Brain.
January 2023
W/ Ali Ahmadvand, Julia Kiseleva, Yang Lui, Ahmed Hassan Awaddallah, Ming Zhong and Milad Shokouhi
December 2022
W/ Amin Bigdeli, Shirin Seyed Salehi, Morteza Zihayat and Ebrahim Bagheri
W/ Sara Salamat, Fattane Zarrinkalam, Morteza Zihayat and Ebrahim Bagheri
W/Sara Salamat, Amin Bigdeli, Shirin Seyedsalehi, Morteza Zihayat and Ebrahim Bagheri
📚 Our paper "De-Biasing Relevance Judgements for Fair Ranking" got accepted @ECIR 2023.
W/ Amin Bigdeli, Shirin Seyedsalehi, Morteza Zihayat and Ebrahim Bagheri
November 2022
🎤I gave a talk on "Gender Bias in Information Retrieval" at MILA.
📚 Our tutorial proposal "prefrence-based offline evaluation" got accepted @WSDM 2023.
W/ Fernando Diaz and Charles L.A Clarke
October 2022
📚Our paper "Collecting Interactive Multi-Modal Datasets for Grounded Language Understanding" got accepted in InterNLP workshop @NeuRIPS 2022
W/ Julia Kiseleva, Shrestha Mohanty, Milagro Teruel, Artem Zholus, Mikhail Burtsev, Alexey Skrynnik, Aleksandr Panov, Marc-Alexandre Côté, Kavya Srinet, Yuxuan Sun and Arthur Szlam
👩💻 I Joined Google Brain as a Student Researcher Intern.
🏃♀️ After several months of work with a great team, We finally launched the "IGLU competition" in two different RL and NLP tasks for NeurIPS 2022.
✔️I finished my internship at Spotify Research.
📚"Early Stage Sparse Retrieval with Entity Linking" got accepted @CIKM 2022.
W/ Dahlia Shehata and Charles L.A Clarke
📚"Unsupervised Question Clarity Prediction through Retrieved Item Coherency" got accepted @CIKM 2022.
W/ Mahsa Seifikar and Charles L.A Clarke
💬 We gave a tutorial on "Gender Bias in Information Retrieval Systems" at SIGIR 2022
W/ Amin Bigdeli, Shirin Seyed Salehi, Morteza Zihayat and Ebrahim Bagheri
✈️ I attended SIGIR 2022 in Madrid, and it could not be more fun to attend a conference in person after two years!
✈️ I attended WebSci 2022 in Barcelona to present our paper.
W/ Anja Klasnja, Mahbod Mehrvarz and Ebrahim Bagheri
April 2021
W/ Amin Bigdeli, Shirin Seyed Salehi, Morteza Zihayat and Ebrahim Bagheri
February 2022
👩💻 I started an internship at Spotify to work on podcasts' offline evaluation.
December 2021
🏖️ I am visiting my family in Iran for the holidays :)
November 2021
📚Our paper "A Light-weight Strategy for Restraining Gender Biases in Neural Rankers " got accepted in ECIR 2022
W/ Amin Bigdeli, Shirin Seyed Salehi, Morteza Zihayat and Ebrahim Bagheri
August 2021
📚Our paper "BERT-QPP: Contextualized Pre-trained transformers for Query Performance Prediction" got accepted in CIKM 2021
W/ Maryam Khodabakhsh and Ebrahim Bagheri
📚Our paper "Predicting Efficiency/Effectiveness Trade-offs for Dense vs. Sparse Retrieval Strategy Selection" got accepted in CIKM 2021
W/ Xinyi Yan and Charles Clarke
📚Our paper "MS MARCO Chameleons: Challenging the MS MARCO Leaderboard with Extremely Obstinate Queries" got accepted in CIKM 2021
W/ Bhaskar Mitra and Ebrahim Bagheri
📚Our paper "Matches Made in Heaven: Toolkit and Large-Scale Datasets for Supervised Query Reformulation" got accepted in CIKM 2021
W/ Amin Bigdeli, Shirin Seyed Salehi, Morteza Zihayat and Ebrahim Bagheri
✔️I finished my internship at Spotify Research.
June 2021
👩💻 I started an internship at Microsoft Research.