Topics & Speakers

Speakers and topics include

• Philipp Mayr, GESIS, Cologne, Germany (Scholarly Document Processing)

• Sean MacAvaney, University of Glasgow, UK (Neural Re-ranking)

• Alessandro Benedetti, Sease Ltd, UK (RAG systems)

• Tony Russell-Rose, City University, London, UK (IR and User Experience)

• Yue Feng & Mubashir Ali, University of Birmingham, UK (Agentic and conversational systems)

• Xi Wang, University of Sheffield, UK (RAG and proactive system design)

• Yashar Moshfeghi, Strathclyde University, UK (NeuraSearch: Brain Machine Interfaces & Information Retrieval)

• Catherine Chen, Brown University, USA (Explainability in AI and IR)

• Anna Wróblewska, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland (Generative AI)

• Halil Bilgin, Sawan Kumar, Shuo Zhang and Soumya Vadlamannati, Bloomberg, London, UK (Retrieval Augmented Generation for Industrial Information Retrieval)

• Anirban Chakraborty, University of Wolverhampton, UK (IR Introduction)

• Ingo Frommholz, Modul University Vienna, Austria (IR Introduction)

• Daniel Dan, Modul University Vienna, Austria (Hackathon, conversational systems)

• Florina Piroi, TU Vienna, Austria (Data Management for IR)

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