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Jack McKechnie
@jackmckechnie.bsky.social
PhD student at the University of Glasgow.
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Yesterday, @ttsamurai.bsky.social has been busy at #ECIR2025, demoing FinPersona (w/ M Suzuki l, K Izumi, @javiersanzcruza.bsky.social, @richardmcc.bsky.social & @iadhounis.bsky.social). Great to see many people interested in FinTech LLM agents!

Try Demo at: huggingface.co/spaces/TTsam...
April 8, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Happy to share that our (w/ @grahammcdonald.bsky.social and @craigmacdonald.bsky.social) work "Measuring Hypothesis Testing Errors in the Evaluation of Retrieval Systems" has been accepted to #SIGIR2025 as a short paper! 🎉Exciting times! 🇮🇹

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April 5, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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Two days left to apply to this postdoctoral position in Responsible AI/IR as part of the PHAWM project at @uofgcompsci.bsky.social

Deadline: 26th March
Details: www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research...
March 24, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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About a week left to apply to this postdoctoral position in Responsible AI/IR at @irglasgow.bsky.social

Details are below. Deadline to apply: 26th March
Come work with us in Glasgow!

We are recruiting a postdoc at @uofgcompsci.bsky.social to work on understanding & measuring the harm of AI-driven IR approaches within various search contexts as part of the PHAWM project on Responsible AI.

Deadline: 26/03
Details: www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research...
Research Associate
Job PurposeTo make a leading contribution to the Participatory Harm Auditing Workbenches and Methodologies (PHAWM) project. Working with Information Retrieval experts Prof Iadh Ounis, Prof Craig Ma...
www.jobs.gla.ac.uk
March 18, 2025 at 11:42 AM
At 15:00 on 13th January, Francesco Luigi De Faveri from University of Padua will give an #IRTalk entitled "Preserving Privacy in Information Retrieval: Leveraging Differential Privacy Across Domains". Details: samoa.dcs.gla.ac.uk/events/viewt...

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January 7, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Today, Xiaoyu Zhang from Shandong University is giving an #IRTalk entitled "Enhancing Conversational Recommender Systems: Integrating Knowledge, Context, and Emotions". Details: samoa.dcs.gla.ac.uk/events/viewt...

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@irglasgow.bsky.social
January 6, 2025 at 3:10 PM
At 15:00 on 6th January, Xiaoyu Zhang from Shandong University will give an #IRTalk entitled "Enhancing Conversational Recommender Systems: Integrating Knowledge, Context, and Emotions". Details: samoa.dcs.gla.ac.uk/events/viewt...

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@irglasgow.bsky.social
January 4, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Happy to share that our (w/ @grahammcdonald.bsky.social and @craigmacdonald.bsky.social ) work "Context Example Selection For LLM Generated Relevance Assessments" has been accepted to #ecir2025 as a full paper! 🎉 Exciting times! 🇮🇹
@irglasgow.bsky.social
December 17, 2024 at 10:31 AM
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At 15:00 on 9th Dec, Jianghao Lin from Shanghai Jiaotong University will give an #IRTalk entitled "Deploying LLMs for Industrial RecSys: From Effectiveness Improvement to Efficiency Optimization". Details: samoa.dcs.gla.ac.uk/events/viewt...

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@irglasgow.bsky.social
December 5, 2024 at 1:55 PM
At 15:00 on 2nd December, Xinghai Hu from Tiktok will give an #IRTalk entitled "Building Trustworthy Recommendation System". Details: samoa.dcs.gla.ac.uk/events/viewt...

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@irglasgow.bsky.social
November 27, 2024 at 4:47 PM
Today, Jianling Wang from Google DeepMind is giving an #IRTalk entitled "When LLMs Meet Recommendations: Scalable Hybrid Approaches to Enhance User Experiences". Details: samoa.dcs.gla.ac.uk/events/viewtal…

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November 25, 2024 at 3:17 PM
At 15:00 on 25th November, Jianling Wang from Google DeepMind will give an #IRTalk entitled "When LLMs Meet Recommendations: Scalable Hybrid Approaches to Enhance User Experiences". Details: samoa.dcs.gla.ac.uk/events/viewt...

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@irglasgow.bsky.social
November 18, 2024 at 4:47 PM
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Hello everyone! Happy to be here! If you are interested on the research that we do at @irglasgow.bsky.social (IR, RecSys, NLP), I have created an starter pack for you!

Access it here: go.bsky.app/BM6iHbU

I will keep updating it over time as more people in our team join BlueSky!
November 18, 2024 at 2:03 PM