Our slides for the SIGIR 2025 tutorial on Conversational Search in the LLM era are now online: 🔗 convsearch.github.io

I’ll present our full paper "Bridging the Gap: From Ad-hoc to Proactive Search in Conversations" tomorrow morning (16 July) at #SIGIR2025, in the Conversational IR and Intelligent Agents session, MANTEGNA Platea, Floor 1, 10:30–12:30. Paper: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

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.

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/...

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.

Join us for the QPP Workshop today starting at 9 AM in the Sagrestia, IMT Campus!

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

📢 The final schedule for the ECIR 2025 workshop on Query Performance Prediction in the era of LLMs is now live! 📅 Join us on 10th April 2025: qppworkshop.github.io 🎤 Keynote by @gdebasis.bsky.social: "The Role of Query Performance Prediction in Developing Adaptive Search and RAG Systems"

Today is the submission deadline! Don’t forget to submit your paper.

Negar is kicking off our Query Performance Prediction (QPP) tutorial at WSDM 2025. If you are attending WSDM, join us at Konferenzraum 15.

📢 Due to some requests, we have EXTENDED the submission deadline by ‼️TWO WEEKS‼️ 📝 New Submission Deadline: 10th March, 2025 We welcome both original and previously published papers for presentation at the workshop.

🚨 Deadline Alert! The QPP++ 2025 workshop on QPP in the era of LLMs is almost here—submit your paper by 24th Feb. 🔗 Website: qppworkshop.github.io

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

📢 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