Chuan Meng
chuanmeng.bsky.social
Chuan Meng
@chuanmeng.bsky.social
Postdoc at the University of Edinburgh | PhD, University of Amsterdam | Former Applied Scientist Intern at Amazon
Join us at #SIGIR2025 for our tutorial "Conversational Search: From Fundamentals to Frontiers in the LLM Era", scheduled for 13 July (tomorrow) from 9:00 to 12:30 at CARRARESL, Floor 0, Padova Congress Center.

Presented by Fengran Mo, @aliannejadi.bsky.social, Jian-Yun Nie, and me.
July 12, 2025 at 7:30 PM
I defended my PhD thesis "Optimizing Agentic Workflows for Information Access" on 19 June 2025. I’m deeply grateful to my supervisors Maarten de Rijke and @aliannejadi.bsky.social. Thanks to my committee members, Evangelos Kanoulas, Christof Monz, Zhaochun Ren, Andrew Yates, and Emine Yilmaz.
June 20, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Excited to share that our paper "Query Performance Prediction using Relevance Judgments Generated by Large Language Models" got accepted by ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS) with Negar Arabzadeh, Arian Askari, @aliannejadi.bsky.social, Maarten de Rijke.

Link: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
May 26, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Happy to share that our tutorial “Conversational Search: From Fundamentals to Frontiers in the LLM Era”, with Fengran Mo, @aliannejadi.bsky.social, and Jian-Yun Nie, has been accepted at #SIGIR2025!

Look forward to engaging discussions on LLM-based and agentic conversational search.
April 19, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Delighted to share that our paper “Bridging the Gap: From Ad-hoc to Proactive Search in Conversations” has been accepted as a full paper at #SIGIR2025.
This work was done during my internship at Amazon, w/ Francesco Tonolini, Fengran Mo, Nikolaos Aletras, Emine Yilmaz, Gabriella Kazai
April 6, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Negar is kicking off our Query Performance Prediction (QPP) tutorial at WSDM 2025.
If you are attending WSDM, join us at Konferenzraum 15.
March 10, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Delighted to share that our full paper “Zero-Shot and Efficient Clarification Need Prediction in Conversational Search" w/ Lili Lu, Federico Ravenda, @aliannejadi.bsky.social, Fabio Crestani has been accepted at #ECIR2025.
December 21, 2024 at 3:28 AM
Join us for our tutorial, "Query Performance Prediction: Techniques and Applications in Modern Information Retrieval" w/ Negar Arabzadeh, @aliannejadi.bsky.social, Ebrahim Bagheri, starting at 9:00 AM on Monday (9th Dec 2024) in Room 04. Don't miss it! #sigirap2024
December 8, 2024 at 3:09 PM
📢 Call for Papers! The QPP++ 2025 workshop on Query Performance Prediction in the era of LLMs will be held at ECIR 2025 in Lucca, Italy🇮🇹, organised by Guglielmo Faggioli, @aliannejadi.bsky.social, Nicola Ferro, Josanne Mothe and myself.
🔗 Website: qppworkshop.github.io
🗓 Deadline: 24th Feb 2025
December 4, 2024 at 2:46 PM