- Projection-Displacement based Query Performance Prediction for Embedded Space of Dense Retrievers (TOIS 2025)
- Tales and Truths: Exploring the Linguistic Journey of 19th Century Literature and Non-Fiction (ECIR 2025)
- Combining Query Performance Predictors: A Reproducibility Study (ECIR 2025)
- Unveiling Temporal Trends in 19th Century Literature: An Information Retrieval Approach (JCDL 2024)
- RAGing Against the Literature: LLM-Powered Dataset Mention Extraction (JCDL 2024) - Vannevar Bush Best Paper Award
- A Deep Learning Approach for Selective Relevance Feedback (ECIR 2024)
- A Relative Information Gain-based Query Performance Prediction Framework with Generated Query Variants (TOIS 2024)
- On the Feasibility and Robustness of Pointwise Evaluation of Query Performance Prediction (QPP++@ECIR 2023)
- Combining Word Embedding Interactions and LETOR Feature Evidences for Supervised QPP (QPP++@ECIR 2023)
Research Experience
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow, February 2024 - present, Insight Centre for Data Analytics, University College Dublin
- Occasional Lecturer, September 2024 - present, School of Computer Science, University College Dublin
- Doctoral Research Fellow, May 2020 - January 2024, School of Computer Science, University College Dublin
- Assistant Professor, August 2019 - April 2020, Xcelerator
- Assistant Professor, August 2018 - August 2019, Techno India University, Kolkata, India
- Project-linked Person, November 2016 - July 2018, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India
Education
PhD in Computer Science from University College Dublin, Ireland, graduated in 2024. PhD supervisor was Assoc. Prof. Derek Greene from the School of Computer Science, UCD. Affiliated with the Insight Centre for Data Analytics during the PhD.
Background
Research interests include adhoc information retrieval (IR), query performance predictions (QPP), cultural analytics, and explainability. Currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Insight Centre for Data Analytics, working on the Victeur project, which is ERC-funded, focusing on developing computational methods to explore the role of European Migrants in Victorian and Neo-Victorian Culture.