Talks, lectures, and panels Keynotes Emancipatory Information Retrieval: Radically Reorienting Information Retrieval Research to Resist Corporate and Authoritarian Capture of our Information Ecosystems Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation (FIRE) Virtual, December 2025 SlideShare | PPT Bias and Beyond: On Generative AI and the Future of Search and Society The International Workshop on Algorithmic Bias in Search and Recommendation (BIAS) , SIGIR Washington D.C., USA, July 2024 SlideShare | PDF Efficient Machine Learning and Machine Learning for Efficiency in Information Retrieval The Workshop on Reaching Efficiency in Neural Information Retrieval (ReNeuIR) , SIGIR Virtual, July 2022 SlideShare | PPT Benchmarking for Neural Information Retrieval: MS MARCO, TREC, and Beyond NLIWOD workshop , International Semantic Web Conference Virtual, November 2020 SlideShare | PPT 5 Lessons Learned from Designing Neural Models for Information Retrieval The 10th Recherche d’Information SEmantique (RISE) workshop , The CORIA-TALN-RJC conference Rennes, France, May 2018 SlideShare | PPT Invited talks Sociotechnical Implications of RAG for Information Access Dagstuhl Seminar 25391: Retrieval-Augmented Generation – The Future of Search? Wadern, Germany, September 2025 SlideShare | PPT Emancipatory Information Retrieval People and Technology Lab (PATLab) , University College Cork Virtual, March 2025 SlideShare | PPT | Recording VIDEO Sociotechnical Implications of Generative AI for Information Access (Re)defining Responsible AI workshop, MILA Montreal, Canada, October 2024 SlideShare | PPT Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical Futures Canadian AI 2024 Guelph, Canada, May 2024 SlideShare | PPT Joint Multisided Exposure Fairness for Search and Recommendation SEA: Search Engines Amsterdam Virtual, January 2023 SlideShare | PPT What’s next for deep learning for Search? Etsy Virtual, November 2022 SlideShare | PPT So, You Want to Release a Dataset? Reflections on Benchmark Development, Community Building, and Making Robust Scientific Progress Spotify Virtual, September 2022 SlideShare | PDF Multisided Exposure Fairness for Search and Recommendation Lowe's Virtual, June 2022 SlideShare | PPT Deep Learning for Effective, Exposure-Aware, and Efficient Information Retrieval Microsoft Research Cambridge Virtual, April 2022Multisided Exposure Fairness for Search and Recommendation Microsoft Research Montreal Virtual, February 2022Neural Information Retrieval: In search of meaningful progress CIIR Talk Series , University of Massachusetts Amherst Virtual, March 2021 Details | SlideShare | PPT | Recording VIDEO Neural Information Retrieval: In search of meaningful progress CLIP Colloquium , University of Maryland Virtual, March 2021 Details | SlideShare | PPT Neural Models for Information Retrieval Facebook Seattle, USA, November 2017 SlideShare | PPT Neural Models for Information Retrieval Microsoft Research Redmond Redmond, USA, November 2017 SlideShare | PPT | Recording VIDEO Neural Models for Information Retrieval School of Computing Sciences , University of Glasgow Glasgow, UK, November 2017 SlideShare | PPT Neural Models for Document Ranking The 4th International Alexandria Workshop Hannover, Germany, October 2017 SlideShare | PPT Neural Models for Information Retrieval The NLIP seminar series , University of Cambridge computer laboratory Cambridge, UK, October 2017 SlideShare | PPT Using Text Embeddings for Information Retrieval School of Computing Sciences , University of Glasgow Glasgow, UK, May 2016 SlideShare | PPT A Simple Introduction to Word Embeddings North Eastern University Seattle, USA, April 2016 SlideShare | PPT Vectorland: Brief Notes from Using Text Embeddings for Search Search Solutions London, UK, November 2015 SlideShare | PPT Lectures Neural Learning to Rank Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering Virtual, May 2022 SlideShare | PPT Deep Neural Methods for Retrieval University College London Virtual, March 2021 SlideShare | PPT Neural Learning to Rank University College London Virtual, March 2021 SlideShare | PPT Deep Neural Methods for Retrieval Emory University Virtual, April 2020 SlideShare | PPT | Recording VIDEO Neural Learning to Rank Emory University Virtual, April 2020 SlideShare | PPT | Recording VIDEO Learning to Rank for Information Retrieval with Neural Networks ACM SIGIR/SIGKDD Africa Summer School on Machine Learning for Data Mining and Search (AFIRM) Cape Town, South Africa, January 2020 SlideShare | PPT | Recording | Hands-on lab materials VIDEO Deep Learning for Search ACM SIGIR/SIGKDD Africa Summer School on Machine Learning for Data Mining and Search (AFIRM) Cape Town, South Africa, January 2019 SlideShare | PPT | Hands-on lab materials A Simple Introduction to Neural Information Retrieval University College London London, UK, March 2018 SlideShare | PPT Invited panels AI Ethics and the Tech Industry With Stefania Pecore , Florian Carichon , and Lilia Jemai McGill University Organized by McGill Computer Science Undergraduate Society (CSUS) and Encode Canada Montréal, Canada, November 2025To Use Generative AI or Not To Use It With Mia Shah-Dand , Hessie Jones , and Beatriz González Mellídez Women in AI Ethics Plus (WAIE+) Debate Online, August 2025 Recording VIDEO Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) lunch With Clemencia Siro , Vanessa Murdock , Nicola Ferro , and Doug Oard SIGIR Washington D.C., USA, July 2024From Research To Production With Julia Kiseleva , Craig Macdonald , Radim Řehůřek , and Agnes van Belle Industry Day , ECIR Grenoble, France, March 2018