Researcher @UniPadova; PhD from @GlasgowCS; Fairness, Quantification, Privacy

Joined June 2019
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Alexander Pugantsov retweeted
The UofG team shares exciting details about #ICDCS2025, including key dates and insights about the vibrant city of Glasgow. Get ready for an enriching conference experience in a city known for its culture, innovation, and friendly people. See you there!📅 #ICDCS2024 #Glasgow2025
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Alexander Pugantsov retweeted
We had a great evening yesterday welcoming back 4 of @TerrierTeam most recent PhD graduates: Xiao, Yashon, Alex and Siwei. A very nice reunion over some drinks, Singaporean chocolate and food. Today Xiao Yashon and Alex will be having their Graduation Day!
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I'm thrilled to announce that my PhD thesis, "A Framework for Effective Intermediate Task Selection in Transfer Learning", is now available online: theses.gla.ac.uk/84330/ Many thanks to my supervisor @richardm_ and everyone at @ir_glasgow for all of their support.

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28 Mar 2024
All done! It's a wrap from #ecir2024. We've had a brilliant 5 days with loads of great talks, discussions, and social events. Thanks to everyone that made #ecir2024 such a great success! We hope you all enjoyed Glasgow. Looking forward to seeing you again in Lucca for #ecir2025
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26 Mar 2024
Maarten de Rijke @mdr is awarded the first Keith van Rijsbergen Award here at #ecir2024. Well deserved for his sustained and impactful contributions to IR for decades.
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26 Mar 2024
What is information retrieval and why is it increasingly important to our everyday lives? As @ecir2024 continues in Glasgow, organiser @graham_mcdonald of @GlasgowCS writes an explainer in @heraldscotland: heraldscotland.com/opinion/2…
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In addition to hosting the #ecir2024 conference next week, many of our staff and students @GlasgowCS will be actively engaged in presenting their recent work during the 5 days of the conference. @ecir2024 @IDAglasgow
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Alexander Pugantsov retweeted
Now listening to @MrParryParry presenting his work with @macavaney, @maik_froebe, @martinpotthast and @matthias_hagen on adversarial attacks at #ECIR2024
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Listening to @tjaenich presenting his interesting fairness work with @iadh and @graham_mcdonald at the big stage on #ECIR2024!
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Replying to @graham_mcdonald
@graham_mcdonald kicks off @ecir2024. Strong attendance from the UK and NL! #ecir2024
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Very thrilled to share that I have successfully defended my PhD thesis!! Many thanks to @iadh and @graham_mcdonald for their highly valuable supervision throughout these years!! Also thankful to the entire @ir_glasgow group for the amazing time!
22 Mar 2024
Congratulations to @hitarth_08 for having successfully defended his PhD thesis today on efficient and effective sensitivity review @GlasgowCS - @graham_mcdonald and I would like to thank his examiners @allanhanbury and @tanayaguha for their thorough examination of a long thesis.
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Thrilled to announce that I've successfully defended my PhD thesis with minor corrections!🎓🎉 Huge thanks to @richardm_ for his guidance and support and to everyone in @TerrierTeam. I'll be joining @UniPadova as a postdoc, focusing on Fairness.
Congratulations to @pugantsov who passed his PhD VIVA this morning with minor corrections. His thisis is 'A Framework for Effective Intermediate Task Selection in Transfer Learning'. Thanks to @YashMosh and @debforit for examining. @GlasgowCS @ir_glasgow @TerrierTeam
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Alexander Pugantsov retweeted
18 Mar 2024
I’ve passed my viva! 🎉 Over 4 incredible yrs at UofG, blessed with fantastic supervisors & engaging examiners. Feeling incredibly grateful! A huge shoutout to my supervisors @iadh and @craig_macdonald for endless support, guidance, and inspiration.
18 Mar 2024
Congratulations to @9meo who passed his PhD viva today on Open-Retrieval Conversational QA with minor corrections. @craig_macdonald and I would like to thank his examiners @tamer_elsayed and @jakelever0 for their thorough examination! @ir_glasgow @TerrierTeam @GlasgowCS
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Alexander Pugantsov retweeted
.@UofGlasgow has James McCune Smith scholarships for Black UK domiciled students to undertake PhD research starting in October 2024: 🔍 gla.ac.uk/scholarships/mccun… Anyone interested in studying for a PhD in search or recommendation @ir_glasgow @GlasgowCS, please do reach out

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Alexander Pugantsov retweeted
I am a Post-Doc HCI Researcher who is passionate about designing systems with users to drive positive emotional experiences and wellness, and looking to take my next career step! See my site to check out my research and experience, and feel free to reach out! RTs welcomed!
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The preprint of our #ECIR2024 demo paper is now available here: javiersanzcruza.github.io/as…

Exciting news to end 2023! Very happy to announce that our demo, "FAR-AI: A Modular Platform for Investment Recommendation in the Financial Domain" with @esric33 and @richardm_ has been accepted at #ECIR2024! See you all here in Glasgow 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿!
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Submitted, done, finished. I will now enter hibernation until my viva.
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Prof. @iadh delivering an invited talk at @fire_forum on the importance of reproducibility in IR research. @ir_glasgow
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At 11:00 on 18th December, Shengyao Zhuang @ShengyaoZhuang will be giving an #IRTalk entitled Dealing with Typos for Pre-trained Language Model-Based Neural Rankers". Details can be found at: samoa.dcs.gla.ac.uk/events/v… @GlasgowCS @ir_glasgow

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