Paper “Local Feature Selection without Label or Feature Leakage for Interpretable Machine Learning Predictions” accepted at ICML 2024 (July 2024)
Paper “DINE: Dimensional Interpretability of Node Embeddings” accepted by TKDE Journal (May 2024)
Best Paper Award at IEEE ICDM 2023 for “A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach to Configuration Sampling Problem”
Organized the Dutch-Belgian IR Conference (DIR 2023) in November 2023
Published multiple high-impact papers including in ACM TOIS: “Efficient Neural Ranking Using Forward Indexes and Lightweight Encoders” and “Data Augmentation for Sample Efficient and Robust Document Ranking” (2024)
Research Experience
Previously Assistant Professor in Information Retrieval at Leibniz University Hannover
Currently leads the Research, Engineering, and Infrastructure Team (REIT) within the Department of Software Technology at TU Delft
Member of the L3S Research Center
Visiting scholar at Amazon Search
Research supported by Amazon Research Awards, Schufa GmbH, German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), and EU Horizon 2020 programme