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Oleg Zendel
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Research Fellow @ ADMS Centre | PhD in Computer Science (RMIT) | Exploring IR & LLMs | Proud furdad to Quan, previously 🦮 in training

https://olegzendel.com/
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admscentre.org.au
What happens when Google stops sending you to websites & starts answering questions itself? In this podcast episode ADM+S researchers Ashwin Nagappa, Oleg Zendel & Sara Al Lawati discuss what the future of search means for all of us bit.ly/48zWDK9 #GoogleSearch #AIMode
October 21, 2025 at 5:27 AM
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admscentre.org.au
Researchers from the Australian Search Experience examine a crucial aspect of the information ecosystem: information producers and their reciprocal relationship with search engines
Read more http://bit.ly/4n41xme #SEO #GenAI #SearchEngines
October 14, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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jtrippas.bsky.social
🌟Really excited to share the fourth Strategic Workshop on Information Retrieval (SWIRL) report published in SIGIR Forum!

Paper 👉🏻 www.johannetrippas.com/papers/tripp...

More info 👉🏻 sites.google.com/view/swirl20...

#SWIRL2025 #SIGIR2026 #IR #GenAI #Research #CHIIR2026
September 2, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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admscentre.org.au
A team from the ADM+S at RMIT University has taken out first place amongst 70 teams across 27 countries in the LiveRAG Challenge at SIGIR 2025, showcasing world-class innovation in Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) technologies admscentre.org/3IBFe8Z
ADM+S team wins global LiveRAG Challenge at SIGIR 2025 - ADM+S Centre
Researchers from ADM+S at RMIT University have taken out first place in the LiveRAG Challenge at SIGIR 2025, showcasing world-class innovation in Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) technologies.
admscentre.org
July 21, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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maik-froebe.bsky.social
Do not forget to participate in the #TREC2025 Tip-of-the-Tongue (ToT) Track :)

The corpus and baselines (with run files) are now available and easily accessible via the ir_datasets API and the HuggingFace Datasets API.

More details are available at: trec-tot.github.io/guidelines
Dory from finding nemo with the quote: "I remember it like it was yesterday. Of course, I dont remember yesterday."
June 27, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Kun Ran, Shuoqi Sun, Khoi Nguyen Dinh Anh, Damiano Spina, Oleg Zendel
RMIT-ADM+S at the SIGIR 2025 LiveRAG Challenge
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14516
June 18, 2025 at 4:52 AM
olegzendel.bsky.social
Excited to share that my amazing RMIT ADM+S team – @damianospina.com, Kun Ran, @shuoqisun.bsky.social, and Dinh Anh Khoi Nguyen – are global finalists in the #SIGIR #LiveRAG Challenge! I'm incredibly proud of everyone and what we've achieved. What a fantastic journey! 🎉
admscentre.org.au ADM+S Centre @admscentre.org.au · Jun 18
Congratulations to the ADM+S team from RMIT, one of four global finalists in the #SIGIR #LiveRAG Challenge- hosted by the Technology Innovation Institute.

The team includes Dr Oleg Zendel, Dr Damiano Spina, Kun Ran, Shuoqi Sun, with colleague Dinh Anh Khoi Nguyen.
More: admscentre.org/4l998ze
June 18, 2025 at 3:35 AM
olegzendel.bsky.social
My first media interview, a great experience!

I really enjoyed the conversation with @jtrippas.bsky.social from @rmitcomputing.bsky.social and Ellen Phiddian from @abcnewsbot.bsky.social.

Thanks for the thoughtful discussion and the opportunity to share insights!
admscentre.org.au ADM+S Centre @admscentre.org.au · May 14
Are search engines getting worse—or is it time to rethink how we search? ADM+S researchers Oleg Zendel, Ashwin Nagappa & Johanne Trippas share insights on search quality, AI & what it means for how we find trustworthy information online @olegzendel.bsky.social @ashwinnag.bsky.social bit.ly/3F8sx44
Is Google search getting worse? Maybe what we want from it has changed
Has the simple search become less useful in a world of low-information, SEO-optimised sites, and often faulty AI summaries? Are there better ways to navigate the web?
bit.ly
May 14, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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admscentre.org.au
Are search engines getting worse—or is it time to rethink how we search? ADM+S researchers Oleg Zendel, Ashwin Nagappa & Johanne Trippas share insights on search quality, AI & what it means for how we find trustworthy information online @olegzendel.bsky.social @ashwinnag.bsky.social bit.ly/3F8sx44
Is Google search getting worse? Maybe what we want from it has changed
Has the simple search become less useful in a world of low-information, SEO-optimised sites, and often faulty AI summaries? Are there better ways to navigate the web?
bit.ly
May 14, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Reposted by Oleg Zendel
damianospina.com
Proceedings of the 2025 ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval #CHIIR2025 are now available at the ACM DL: dl.acm.org/doi/proceedi...
https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3698204
May 2, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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aunz.theconversation.com
Super funds may be missing a basic safeguard to protect retirement savings.
Hackers have hit major super funds. A cyber expert explains how to stop it happening again
theconversation.com
April 4, 2025 at 6:59 AM
olegzendel.bsky.social
March 31, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Reposted by Oleg Zendel
frommholz.org
IRRJ, the Information Retrieval Research Journal, is the new player in the information retrieval publication landscape. The first issue has recently been published. Have a look at irrj.org/index, and don't forget to follow @IRRJ.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy!
Information Retrieval Research
irrj.org
March 27, 2025 at 4:10 PM
olegzendel.bsky.social
Fantastic keynote by Kathy Brennan at #CHIIR2025! Insightful points on UI design at Google moving beyond the 'average user' to truly personalize experiences. Thought-provoking and inspiring
March 26, 2025 at 5:04 AM
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damianospina.com
Our @theconversation.com article discussing 4 ethical models of search engines is out!

theconversation.com/what-makes-a...

@admscentre.org.au
@rmitcomputing.bsky.social
@umbrellacorpn.bsky.social
What makes a good search engine? These 4 models can help you use search in the age of AI
To make sure search engines serve us well, it’s helpful to imagine these tools having different roles – whether it’s a “librarian” or a “teacher”.
theconversation.com
March 26, 2025 at 2:32 AM
olegzendel.bsky.social
@rankun203.bsky.social is presenting his Master's work at #CHIIR2025 in Melbourne.

Exploring LLMs to improve query reformulation, showing promising results especially for poor queries. Contrary to prior studies of PRF query expansion, which works mostly for effective queries.

Questions time 😄
March 26, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Reposted by Oleg Zendel
antmandan.bsky.social
There's something quasi-religious about the way some critics of AI declare their total abstinence from it, like a badge of moral purity. You can bet many of the same voices drive cars, eat factory-farmed meat, and otherwise engage with systems that have deep ethical and environmental costs.
March 19, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Reposted by Oleg Zendel
arc-tracker.bsky.social
ARC has “paused” future rounds of grant schemes pending outcomes of its NCGP Policy Review.

All schemes previously scheduled to open before 1 July this year will go ahead.

But next year’s Laureates, Industry Fellowships & Discovery Indigenous won’t.

See table👇 & www.arc.gov.au/funding-rese...
Black text on white background. Screenshot from ARC’s Grants Calendar webpage showing which schemes will go ahead next year (upper bullet points), and which will be “paused” pending the outcomes of the review of the National Competitive Grants Program (lower bullet points). Source: https://www.arc.gov.au/funding-research/ARC_grants-calendar
March 20, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Reposted by Oleg Zendel
arc-tracker.bsky.social
Here’s a report by John Ross in @timeshighered.bsky.social on ARC Board’s proposal to change grant schemes ▶️

www.timeshighereducation.com/news/arc-gra...
[Free login required]

Both @scienceau.bsky.social's & I am worried about opportunities & unintended consequences for early-career researchers👇
Excerpt from the article. Black text on white background with a few links in blue text. Excerpt as follows: “Under the ARC board’s proposals, most stand-alone fellowships would be replaced by “embedded fellowships” funded through other grant schemes and capped at two years. “Traditional four-year fellowships concentrate a significant amount of funds on a small number of individual researchers,” a discussion paper explains. Observers fear this could inadvertently deny many ECRs a toehold in academia because current fellowship schemes such as the Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (Decra) and the mid-career Future Fellowships are available to researchers without positions at universities. This could change under the proposals. The discussion paper implies that recipients of embedded fellowships must already be in “the university workforce” – suggesting that ECRs must obtain employment in the sector before gaining eligibility for ARC grants. That is an “unrealistic” expectation, according to Sharath Sriram, president of Science and Technology Australia. “The assumption is all those who apply are already…in academic roles. That might have been true in the 1990s. It’s not the case anymore. “There’s no stability of employment for people until they are six, seven years out of their PhDs. Universities often use success in grants and fellowships to determine who to employ.” A researcher who monitors grant schemes, using the social media handle “ARC Tracker”, was unconvinced that the proposals would improve opportunities for ECRs. They said changes to fellowship schemes needed to avoid closing “pathways” for young researchers and leaving them “overshadowed by the established group leaders”. ARC Board chair Peter Shergold acknowledged the fellowship changes as one of the “stings in the tail” of his proposals, but said a primary goal of his reforms was “contributing to the development of the next generation of researchers”.
March 16, 2025 at 11:00 PM
olegzendel.bsky.social
An interesting 🧵 worth having a look at
vickiboykis.com Vicki @vickiboykis.com · Mar 17
If you need a break from SEO, LLMs, and the general emptiness of the modern internet, go here and browse for a bit

marginalia-search.com/explore
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March 17, 2025 at 10:43 PM
olegzendel.bsky.social
Soaking up (possibly) the last bit of summer this weekend - while wrapping up my reviews!
March 16, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Reposted by Oleg Zendel
arc-tracker.bsky.social
ALL RESEARCHERS

❗️Speak up❗️ if you have opinions, critique or ideas on proposed changes to Australian Research Council grants.

Discuss & distill ideas, sure, but to be considered you MUST make a submission ▶️ submit.dese.gov.au/jfe/form/SV_...

It’s EASY!

Answer these questions in the form👇
Screenshot from the ARC Board’s Discussion Paper on the Policy Review of the National Competitive Grants Program (page 33) listing the questions the standard submission form asks you to address. Black text on white background with a heading “Having your say” on dark blue background at the top.
March 3, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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Captain it's Wednesday
Captain it's Wednesday
February 19, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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arc-tracker.bsky.social
The ARC Board has proposed a major shake-up of the National Competitive Grants Program ▶️ www.arc.gov.au/engage-us/co...

I've only skimmed so far, but they propose reducing 13 grant schemes to 6, with intent & scope in the table👇

Submissions are being accepted in response until 13 April. Get to it!
Table from page 25 of the proposed restructure of ARC grants. Back text on white background, with the table delineated by a dark blue header row and alternating light and very light blue rows.
February 25, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Reposted by Oleg Zendel
damianospina.com
The list of accepted papers, workshops, and tutorials for #CHIIR2025 are now online!

chiir2025.github.io/schedule.html
ACM CHIIR 2025
chiir2025.github.io
February 7, 2025 at 10:09 PM