The organization of #ECIR2026 has started! We just had our first call with all track chairs. With the calls now finalized, online and distributed across mailing lists, we’re moving on to the rest of the conference preparation! @ecir2026.eu 📍 Delft, 30 Mar – 2 Apr 2026 👉 ecir2026.eu

Thrilled that I’ll be co-chairing the #ECIR2026 Short Paper track together w/ @aliannejadi.bsky.social + @macavaney.bsky.social - truly a dream team! :) The #CfP is already live: ecir2026.eu/calls/call-f... We're looking forward to your submissions! #InformationAccess #IR #RecSys #ECIR

We look forward to new PC members. Please nominate yourself or someone you know who can join the PC for short papers at #ECIR2026.

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.

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/...

🚀New Preprint🚀 Can Multimodal Retrieval Enhance Cultural Awareness in Vision-Language Models? Excited to introduce RAVENEA, a new benchmark aimed at evaluating cultural understanding in VLMs through RAG. arxiv.org/abs/2505.14462 More details:👇

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.

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.

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

It was a great pleasure to attend JAII in Paris and give a talk on LLMs for Evaluation, where I shared my views and the work we have done as part of TREC iKAT. Thanks to Benjamin Piwowarski for the invite. x.com/mlia_isir/st...

📢 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