Scholar
Nandan Thakur
Google Scholar ID: CE9GJoMAAAAJ
PhD Student, University of Waterloo
Citations & Impact
Citations
2,475
H-index
15
i10-index
18
Publications
20
Co-authors
13
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Created influential retrieval and RAG benchmarks: BEIR, MIRACL, NoMIRACL, MIRAGE-Bench, FreshStack.
- Developed efficient retrieval models such as GPL and SWIM-IR.
- Publications accepted at top venues: NAACL 2025 (MIRAGE-Bench), ICLR 2025 (MIRACL in MMTEB), SIGIR 2025 (TREC 2024 RAG work), NeurIPS 2025 Datasets & Benchmarks Track (FreshStack).
- Serving as PC member for the BREV-RAG workshop at SIGIR-AP 2025.
- Invited talks at Microsoft Research India (Bangalore), Mila (Montreal), and guest lectures on modern IR evaluation in the RAG era.
- Featured on the Weaviate Podcast discussing RAG benchmarks.
