
Debasis Ganguly
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Debasis Ganguly
@debforit
Lecturer/Asst. Professor at the School of Computing, University of Glasgow (@UofGlasgow/@GlasgowCS/@IDAglasgow/@ir_glasgow)














Huge congratulations to @macavaney on receiving the prestigious ACM SIGIR Early Career Researcher Award in the research category! This well-deserved recognition highlights the excellence & impact of his work in the IR community 👏🎉#sigir2025 Cc @GlasgowCS @UofGlasgow @ACMSIGIR

How does retrieval impact on Agentic RAG? Let's see what predicted intermediate retrieval quality can tell us! Our IR-RAG@SIGIR'25 paper is on Arxiv: arxiv.org/abs/2507.10411. #SIGIR2025 cc/ @JinyuanF @debforit @mengzaiqiao @craig_macdonald

🚨 New Pre-Print! You've just added your 600th model to your negative mining pool and filtered all false negatives. Does any of this even matter when we can apply distillation? In this work with @debforit and @macavaney, we explore data selection in modern ranking. 🧵 Below

🚨 New Pre-Print! We show that in-context learning can steer LLM rankers to satisfy multiple objectives at once, relevance and fairness/diversity, without any parameter updates. Work done jointly with @nilanjansb from IIT Kharagpur and @debforit. 🧵 Below!





@debforit is giving keynote talk about QPP’s application in LLM era at the QPP++ workshop #ecir2025 @ir_glasgow

Back to back speakers from Glasgow in the QPP++ workshop at #ECIR2025, with lots of other interesting talks coming up. @DanielTian97 is presenting his work (w/ @craig_macdonald & @debforit) that revisits query variants for QPP. Great stuff! @ir_glasgow @glasgowcs #ECIR2025

