Congratulations to @tjaenich.bsky.social who defended his PhD Thesis Fair Group-Based Exposure of Documents in Ranked Search Results 👏👏 Was a pleasure supervising your PhD along with @iadhounis.bsky.social. @irglasgow.bsky.social Thanks to the examiners Dr. Sole Pera and Christos Anagnostopoulos!

Another great contribution from one of my colleagues @uofgterrierteam.bsky.social 😎 @zixuanyi.bsky.social opens the afternoon session at #ecir2025 presenting his work on multi-modal multi-domain recommendation 🤩 Fantastic paper! 👏

Fantastic talk from fellow @uofgterrierteam.bsky.social member @jackmckechnie.bsky.social in the evaluation session at #ECIR2025. Definitely go and check out his paper on context example selection for generated relevance assessments!

A large contingent of our staff & students @uofgcompsci.bsky.social will soon be traveling to #ECIR2025. We'll be presenting our latest work in #search & #RecSys throughout the 5-day conference. Looking forward to connecting with colleagues and friends in Lucca!

Happy to share that our paper entitled "A Multi-modal Large Language Model with Graph-of-Thought for Effective Recommendation" has been accepted by @naaclmeeting.bsky.social as a main conference paper, co-authored with @iadhounis.bsky.social. #NAACL2025

Looking forward to visiting Lucca next year! 😎🇮🇹 #ecir2025

Today we have a LLMs +RecSys talk by Jianling Wang from Google Deepmind at our seminar at @irglasgow.bsky.social

At 15:00 on 25th November, Jianling Wang from Google DeepMind will give an #IRTalk entitled "When LLMs Meet Recommendations: Scalable Hybrid Approaches to Enhance User Experiences". Details: samoa.dcs.gla.ac.uk/events/viewt... @uofgcompsci.bsky.social @irglasgow.bsky.social