Time to gear up! The full paper abstract deadline is just over one week away, on Sep 20 (11:59 PM AoE). For more details, see: ecir2024.org/2023/05/22/cal… Full paper submissions are due on Sep 27 (11:59 PM AoE).

Are you a UK student looking to do a #PhD? Interested in working with big finance data at #Barclays? Only a few days left to apply for this scholarship at University of Glasgow findaphd.com/phds/project/p…

3: Richard McCreadie and I are still looking for a motivated student to work with us on optimizing the resource usage of large-scale data service infrastructure (as operated by Barclays in Glasgow)! ☁💻🌱

Happening now, Richard McCreadie is presenting our work in financial asset recommendations in a keynote on the #ICAIF2023 workshop on Machine Learning for Investor Modelling and Recommender Systems.

Prof. Iadh Ounis delivering an invited talk at FIRE on the importance of reproducibility in IR research. Glasgow IR Group

Congratulations to Alexander Pugantsov who passed his PhD VIVA this morning with minor corrections. His thisis is 'A Framework for Effective Intermediate Task Selection in Transfer Learning'. Thanks to Yashar Moshfeghi and Debasis Ganguly for examining. UofG Computing Science Glasgow IR Group TerrierTeam

Happy to announce three papers at the #IJCAI2024 Workshop on Recommender Systems in Finance (Fin-RecSys). Pre-prints available soon! #Finance #RecSys (1/10)

The deadline to apply for these funded PhD scholarships is fast approaching: 31st July 2024. Come work with us at Glasgow IR Group UoG IDA Section, Glasgow CS UofG Computing Science!

Now, Lubingzhi Guo from University of Glasgow presents at the FinNLP workshop @ IJCAI'24 #IJCAI2024

Happening now, Chung-Chi Chen is kick-starting our #SIGIR2025 tutorial on IR in Finance! Come to PALLADIO A to hear more!

This morning at the #SIGIR2025 FinTech tutorial in PALLADIO A: Before Coffee break, Intro and AI agents for finance, after coffee we have recommender systems for finance

Now it’s the turn of Javier Sanz-Cruzado to speak at the #sigir2025 Fintech tutorial about details of existing financial recommendation models in the literature

And, to conclude our #SIGIR2025 IR in Finance tutorial, Yongjae Lee is now telling us about LLMs for Portfolio Construction!

Excellent #SIGIR2025 talk by Takayanagi presenting our user study on the use LLMs to conduct financial advice with Richard McCreadie , Iadh Ounis and Kiyoshi Izumi!

Poster number 33 at #sigir2025, @JackMck1999's work on Measuring Hypothesis Testing Errors in the Evaluation of Retrieval Systems, with me and Craig Macdonald. Glasgow IR Group arxiv.org/abs/2507.07924

Just finished presenting our paper with Zijun Long on how to enhance interactive image retrieval at inference time with diffusion models at #SIGIR2025

Starting the day at #SIGIR2025 FinIR Workshop with a lively keynote presentation by Iadh Ounis: Beyond Profit: Evaluating Financial Recommenders with Real-World Transactions. Glasgow IR Group UoG IDA Section, Glasgow CS UofG Computing Science

Iadh Ounis's keynote at #SIGIR2025 FinIR workshop: Financial asset recommendation is a multi-objective, multi-modal and heavily time-dependent problem, that needs to be personalised to individual's investment profiles to be successful. Glasgow IR Group UofG Computing Science

Listening to Yongjae Lee from the UNIST Financlial Engineering Lab giving a keynote on LLMs in Portfolio Selection: Embedding, Bias, and Optimization at #SIGIR2025

Yongjae Lee highlighting risks with using LLMs when developing financial portfolios at #FinIR workshop at #SIGIR25