Talks, lectures, and panels
Keynotes
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
SlidesEfficient Machine Learning and Machine Learning for Efficiency in Information Retrieval
The Workshop on Reaching Efficiency in Neural Information Retrieval (ReNeuIR), SIGIR
Virtual, July 2022
SlidesBenchmarking for Neural Information Retrieval: MS MARCO, TREC, and Beyond
NLIWOD workshop, International Semantic Web Conference
Virtual, November 2020
Slides5 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
SlidesInvited talks
Emancipatory Information Retrieval
People and Technology Lab (PATLab), University College Cork
Virtual, March 2025
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Sociotechnical Implications of Generative AI for Information Access
(Re)defining Responsible AI workshop, MILA
Montreal, Canada, October 2024
SlidesSearch and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical Futures
Canadian AI 2024
Guelph, Canada, May 2024
SlidesJoint Multisided Exposure Fairness for Search and Recommendation
SEA: Search Engines Amsterdam
Virtual, January 2023
SlidesWhat’s next for deep learning for Search?
Etsy
Virtual, November 2022
SlidesSo, You Want to Release a Dataset? Reflections on Benchmark Development, Community Building, and Making Robust Scientific Progress
Spotify
Virtual, September 2022
SlidesMultisided Exposure Fairness for Search and Recommendation
Lowe's
Virtual, June 2022
SlidesDeep Learning for Effective, Exposure-Aware, and Efficient Information Retrieval
Microsoft Research Cambridge
Virtual, April 2022
Multisided Exposure Fairness for Search and Recommendation
Microsoft Research Montreal
Virtual, February 2022
Neural Information Retrieval: In search of meaningful progress
CIIR Talk Series, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Virtual, March 2021
Details | Slides | Video
Neural Information Retrieval: In search of meaningful progress
CLIP Colloquium, University of Maryland
Virtual, March 2021
Details | Slides
Neural Models for Information Retrieval
Facebook
Seattle, USA, November 2017
SlidesNeural Models for Information Retrieval
Microsoft Research Redmond
Redmond, USA, November 2017
Slides | Video
Neural Models for Information Retrieval
School of Computing Sciences, University of Glasgow
Glasgow, UK, November 2017
SlidesNeural Models for Document Ranking
The 4th International Alexandria Workshop
Hannover, Germany, October 2017
SlidesNeural Models for Information Retrieval
The NLIP seminar series, University of Cambridge computer laboratory
Cambridge, UK, October 2017
SlidesUsing Text Embeddings for Information Retrieval
School of Computing Sciences, University of Glasgow
Glasgow, UK, May 2016
SlidesA Simple Introduction to Word Embeddings
North Eastern University
Seattle, USA, April 2016
SlidesVectorland: Brief Notes from Using Text Embeddings for Search
Search Solutions
London, UK, November 2015
SlidesLectures
Neural Learning to Rank
Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering
Virtual, May 2022
SlidesDeep Neural Methods for Retrieval
University College London
Virtual, March 2021
SlidesNeural Learning to Rank
University College London
Virtual, March 2021
SlidesDeep Neural Methods for Retrieval
Emory University
Virtual, April 2020
Slides | Video
Neural Learning to Rank
Emory University
Virtual, April 2020
Slides | 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
Slides | Video | Hands-on lab materials
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
Slides | Hands-on lab materialsA Simple Introduction to Neural Information Retrieval
University College London
London, UK, March 2018
SlidesInvited panels
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