Topics & Speakers

Catherine Chen
Brown University, USA
Peeking Under the Hood: Interpretability and Explainability in IR

Florina Piroi
Technical University Vienna, Austria
Data Management for IR

Philipp Mayr
GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Cologne, Germany
Scholarly Document Processing in Action: Shared Tasks and a Real-World Application

Sean MacAvaney
University of Glasgow, Scotland
Neural Retrieval and Re-Ranking

Tony Russell-Rose
City St George's University of London, UK
Designing the Search Experience

Xi Wang
University of Sheffield, UK
Adaptive RAG and Beyond: Towards Proactive Conversational Information Seeking

Yue Feng,
University of Birmingham, UK
Agentic and Conversational Systems

Mubashir Ali,
University of Birmingham, UK
Agentic and Conversational Systems

Anna Wróblewska
Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Introduction to Generative AI

Alessandro Benedetti
Sease Ltd., London, UK
Retrieval-Augmented Generation Systems

Daniel Dan
Modul University Vienna, Austria
Hackathon, Chatbots

Thomas Roelleke
Queen Mary, University of London, UK
Foundations of IR Models

Yashar Moshfeghi
University of Strathclyde, Scotland
NeuraSearch: Brain Machine Interfaces & Information Retrieval

Soumya Vadlamannati
Bloomberg Ltd, London, UK
Building IR Systems with GenAI in Industry

Sawan Kumar
Bloomberg Ltd, London, UK
Building IR Systems with GenAI in Industry

Shuo Zhang
Bloomberg Ltd, London, UK
Building IR Systems with GenAI in Industry

Halil Bilgin
Bloomberg Ltd, London, UK
Building IR Systems with GenAI in Industry

Anirban Chakraborty
University of Wolverhampton, UK
Relevance Feedback

Ingo Frommholz
Modul University Vienna, Austria
Say Hello to Information Retrieval

IR Evaluation