Associate Professor in CS, lead of @grill_lab_ai. PhD from CIIR@UMass Amherst. Research on the future of digital assistants and IR. Formerly Google, Twitter.
Joined April 2007
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13 May 2025
I’ve spent my career studying the science of search. The new generation of LLM models asks us to fundamentally reimagine everything. Here's what it mean's for AI Coaching at Valence:
valence.co/blog/breaking-out…
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12 Feb 2025
The next post in my #SWRL2025 series is up on Linkedin - linkedin.com/posts/jeffjdalt…
It covers the arrival to Melbourne and the opening gathering setting the stage for the week. Coffee pictures with @lauradietz99.
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11 Feb 2025
This week I’m in Australia for the 4th Strategic Workshop on Information Retrieval (sites.google.com/view/swirl2…). I’ll be posting with some of the highlights, big questions, new breakthroughs, and more.
See post details on Linkedin - linkedin.com/posts/jeffjdalt…
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Jeff Dalton retweeted
27 Sep 2024
The future belongs to those who do evals
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26 Aug 2024
Come and chat about our #KDD2024 poster (#99) about lessons learned during the development of GRILLBot, our #AlexaPrize conversational task assistant ☀️
w/ @JeffD @carlos_gemmell @iain_with_2is @FedingoRoss91 @grill_lab_ai @EdinburghNLP
Preprint: arxiv.org/pdf/2402.07647
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19 May 2024
Excited that our paper "GRILLBot In Practice: Lessons and Tradeoffs Deploying Large Language Models for Adaptable Conversational Task Assistants" will appear at #KDD2024 - including many @AmazonScience #AlexaPrize insights from @grill_lab_ai!
Preprint: arxiv.org/pdf/2402.07647
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15 May 2024
We are thrilled to announce we have closed a £6m seed round led by @HoxtonVentures . To shrink AI models to solve the world’s hardest enterprise problems.
This follows our £1m pre-seed in August led by @CreatorFund
sifted.eu/articles/malted-ai…
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Jeff Dalton retweeted
16 Apr 2024
@SnowflakeDB is open sourcing the best embedding models in the world! 🚀🚀
They are now available open source in @huggingface We are releasing it under the Apache 2 license so that it is easy for the OSS community to experiment with them freely.🎁🎁
These impressive models are the result of @Neeva's
expertise in search, state-of-the-art research, and @SnowflakeDB ’s steadfast commitment to excellence in AI.
It’s incredible to see what the team has built, and even better to delight our customers day after day with our latest innovations.
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28 Mar 2024
Research rethinking a search pipeline leveraging passage-level feedback and entity representations. @grill_lab_ai. Also available on arxiv: arxiv.org/abs/2306.17082
28 Mar 2024
Listening to @iain_with_2is presenting his very interesting work entitled: "Adaptive Latent Entity Expansion for Document Retrieval" at @keirworkshop .
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28 Mar 2024
Congratulations 🎊🎉 to all members! More exciting work on LLMs and conversational search coming up. Finally, we are hiring PhD students and postdocs! Get in touch with PI Jeff Dalton (jeff.dalton@ed.ac.uk) to discuss the positions. (6/6)
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28 Mar 2024
Visiting Professor @JeffD of @InfAtEd & our #AI Group will discuss real-world challenges deploying generative LLMs in his #ECIR2024 Industry Day keynote (11 AM GMT): "Generative AI in Finance: Automatic, Topic-based Summaries for Earnings Call Transcripts"
bloom.bg/3ITuiQP
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28 Mar 2024
Today @ 11, I'm excited to speak at the #ecir2024 Industry Day giving a keynote on "Generative AI in Finance: Automatic, Topic-based Summaries for Earnings Call Transcripts" with @TechAtBloomberg.
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28 Mar 2024
And for a bit of throwback, my first talk at a research conference was at the first ECIR Industry Day in 2008. From my days working on search quality
@GlobalSpecLLC before starting a PhD
@manningcics later in the Fall.
From the Wayback Machine:
web.archive.org/web/20090214…
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26 Mar 2024
My group, @grill_lab_ai at @InfAtEd has openings for multiple postdocs and PhD students to work on the future of interactive assistants, generative retrieval, and Large Language Models (LLMs). We're at #ecir2024, so please come chat.
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26 Mar 2024
Exciting new work on scaling creation of personalized search sessions with LLMs. Congrats team! @grill_lab_ai.
26 Mar 2024
Glad to share our accepted #SIGIR2024 full paper "Doing Personal LAPS: LLM-Augmented Dialogue Construction for Personalized Multi-Session Conversational Search" lead by @hideaki_joko w/ @ShubhamC526 @JeffD @arjenpdevries @fhasibi
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23 Mar 2024
I look forward to seeing you at #ecir2024 in Glasgow soon! As my current base, I know it well. I'm happy to share two food maps:
- A top 50 Food & Drink list just for ECIR maps.app.goo.gl/Ku8gGABAZfwV…
- My full list maps.app.goo.gl/hTZRzVaHWam3…
Research welcome!
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Jeff Dalton retweeted
22 Oct 2023
A lot of fun being @cikm2023
22 Oct 2023
@iain_with_2is talks about Generative relevance fdbk using #LLM and hallucinations at the LLMIT workshop at #cikm2023.
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4 Oct 2023
This week I joined the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh (@InfAtEd). My @grill_lab_ai research group moved with me. We look forward to new adventures and exciting research. P.S. We're hiring for postdoc positions, stay tuned. 😉
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