Published several papers including but not limited to 'ChatR1: Reinforcement Learning for Conversational Reasoning and Retrieval Augmented Question Answering' (preprint), 'Investigating LLM Variability in Personalized Conversational Information Retrieval' (SIGIR-AP 2025), etc.; Organized TREC iKAT 2025 shared task.
Research Experience
PhD candidate at the IRLab, University of Amsterdam; Former member of the Search and Recommendation Team at Naver Labs Europe.
Education
Currently a third-year PhD candidate in Information Retrieval (IR) at the University of Amsterdam (IRLab), working with Prof. Dr. Evangelos Kanoulas and Dr. Mohammad Aliannejadi. Received his Master from Grenoble INP Ensimag after an Erasmus Exchange at Imperial College London.
Background
Research interests include Information Retrieval (IR) and conversational AI, focusing on Large Language Models, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), and Reinforcement Learning (RL) for Agentic AI. Previously worked for two years in NLP and IR at Naver Labs Europe, in the Search and Recommendation Team.