📣My colleagues in Google Research are looking for a Ph.D. summer student researcher to work on exciting projects related to LLM and ranking 🔥. If you have previous experiences in ML/NLP/IR/DM, please reach out to Honglei Zhuang ([email protected])🤝.

Very honored to receive the best short paper award at #SIGIR2023! Will present the work at 12 in room 201E today. "SparseEmbed: Learning Sparse Lexical Representations with Contextual Embeddings for Retrieval" w/ Jeffrey M. Dudek, Cheng Li, Mingyang Zhang Michael Bendersky

Call for Papers: The #WSDM2024 Workshop on LLMs for Individuals, Groups, and Society. Submission deadline: January 15, 2024 More information: …ividuals-groups-and-society.github.io/2024 cc/ WSDM Conference Michael Bendersky Qiaozhu Mei Feminist Killjoy jietang Hongning Wang Mingyang Zhang

🔥 Unleashing the Power of Inference Scaling in Long-Context RAG 🔥 Excited to share our latest research Google DeepMind "Inference Scaling for Long-Context Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)" 🎓, in collaboration with Honglei Zhuang Aijun Bai Kai Hui Rolf Jagerman Hansi Zeng

📣 📣 #sigir2025 doctoral consortium, discuss with seniors sigir2025.dei.unipd.it/call-doctoral-… Deadlines: - Submission: Feb 27, 2025 - Notifications: Apr 4, 2025 - DC: Jul 13, 2025 More info? Ask Michael Bendersky, Behrooz Mansouri, and Isabelle Moulinier at [email protected].

Excited to be co-chairing SIGIR 2025 Doctoral Consortium with Isabelle Moulinier and Behrooz Mansouri . It's a great opportunity for students to present their work and get mentorship from a senior researcher in the field. Email [email protected] with questions.