Scholar
Chris Samarinas
Google Scholar ID: CdJEwOkAAAAJ
Ph.D. student, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Citations & Impact
Citations
127
H-index
7
i10-index
3
Publications
12
Co-authors
17
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Paper 'Distillation and Refinement of Reasoning in Small Language Models for Document Re-ranking' accepted at ICTIR 2025
- Paper 'Beyond Factual Accuracy: Evaluating Coverage of Diverse Factual Information in Long-form Text Generation' accepted at ACL 2025
- Paper 'ProCIS: A Benchmark for Proactive Retrieval in Conversations' accepted at SIGIR 2024
- Paper 'Revisiting Open Domain Query Facet Extraction and Generation' accepted at ICTIR 2022
- Paper 'Improving Evidence Retrieval for Automated Explainable Fact-checking' accepted at NAACL 2021
- Paper 'Latent Retrieval for Large-Scale Fact-Checking and QA' accepted at IEEE ICTAI 2020
- Developed MarunaBot series of task-oriented dialogue systems, published in Alexa Prize Taskbot Challenge 2021/2022
- Awarded SIGIR travel grant to attend ICTIR 2022
Research Experience
- Applied Scientist Intern at Amazon (Summer 2024 & 2025), working on generative ranking
- Machine Learning Research Intern at Netflix (Spring 2025), focusing on conversational search
- Research Intern at Adobe Research (Summer 2022), working on multi-step dense retrieval
- Worked at Ro5 on biomedical knowledge graphs
- Developed fact-checking systems at National University of Singapore (NUS)
- Built semantic search for finance at Plural AI
- Worked on contextual recommendations at Donaco
- Led UMass team in Alexa Prize Taskbot Challenge 2 (2023)
