Scholar
Sean MacAvaney
Google Scholar ID: 7wWfoDgAAAAJ
University of Glasgow
Citations & Impact
Citations
3,871
H-index
28
i10-index
52
Publications
20
Co-authors
13
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- ACM SIGIR Early Career Researcher Award (2025)
- AI2 Intern of the Year Award (2020)
- ARCS Endowment Fellowship (2019–2020)
- Best Paper Award at SIGIR 2023: 'The Information Retrieval Experiment Platform'
- Best Paper Runner-Up Award at SIGIR 2024: 'A Reproducibility Study of PLAID'
- Best Short Paper Award at ECIR 2023: 'Doc2Query--: When Less is More'
- Awarded papers at ECIR 2025: 'Efficient Constant-Space Multi-Vector Retrieval' and 'mFollowIR: a Multilingual Benchmark for Instruction Following in Retrieval'
- Area Chair Favorite Paper at COLING 2018: 'Self-reported Mental Health Diagnoses'
- First-place poster award at 2018 ICBI Symposium
- Second-place poster award at 2017 ICBI Symposium
- Georgetown IR Lab Outstanding Service Award (2021)
- Multiple papers accepted at top venues including SIGIR, ECIR, COLING, and NAACL
Research Experience
- Lecturer (promoted to Senior Lecturer) in Machine Learning, University of Glasgow, 2021–present
- S2 Research Intern, Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2), Winter 2020
- Research Intern, Italian National Research Council, Summer 2019
- NLP Research Intern, Adobe Research, Summer 2018
- Research Intern, Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Summer 2017
- Software Developer, Integrated Inventory Technology (IIT/SourceTech), 2009–2016
