Aleksandr "Sasha" Petrov
apetrov.bsky.social
Aleksandr "Sasha" Petrov
@apetrov.bsky.social
PhD researcher (Recommender Systems) @TerrierTeam, University of Glasgow.
Ex. Senior Software Engineer @Amazon

The opinions are mine.
Additionally, I am happy to share that the full paper titled "Improving Minimax Group Fairness in Sequential Recommendation" " co-authored by Krishna Acharya, David Wardrope, Timos Korres, Anders Uhrenholt and me, has been accepted by the #IR4Good track of #ECIR2025.
January 10, 2025 at 11:42 AM
@zixuanyi.bsky.social can you comment on that?
December 4, 2024 at 10:57 AM
... and where LLMs need help
November 25, 2024 at 3:22 PM
Nice suggestions where LLMs be useful for recsys
November 25, 2024 at 3:20 PM
5. I'm a proud father of 2 daughters. My oldest daughter is already studying in her 2nd year at school. My younger daughter is just a 2-month-old baby. Writing a thesis and parenting two girls is quite a challenge!
November 18, 2024 at 2:01 PM
4. You can find more information about my research and publications on my personal website, asash.github.io
Aleksandr V. Petrov - Personal website
asash.github.io
November 18, 2024 at 1:59 PM
3. Before moving to Academia, I accumulated over ten years of industrial experience in both big tech companies (e.g., Amazon) and startups (e.g., E-Contenta).
November 18, 2024 at 1:58 PM
2. My research is focused on adapting state-of-the-art transformer-based recommendation models to the realistic scenario of large catalogues and big datasets. I regularly publish on RecSys-related conferences, including ACM RecSys, ECIR, WSDM, and similar venues.
November 18, 2024 at 1:57 PM
You should join @idaglasgow.bsky.social as a lecturer then, to teach in Scotland!
November 18, 2024 at 1:38 PM