Hamed Bonab

I will be attending @TheWebConf in-person to present this work. Looking forward to meet folks there...

Happy to share our @TheWebConf paper at ISIR-eCom workshop titled as "Blend and Match: Distilling semantic search models with different inductive biases and model architectures" @AmazonScience #AmazonScience #AmazonSearch #TheWebConf Paper: tinyurl.com/blendmatch

Excited to share that our full paper, "Cross-Market E-Commerce Question Answering by Jointly Ranking Questions and Products," has been accepted at #SIGIR2023 @SIGIRConf w/ @maliannejadi , @hamedrab , @ekanou @arjenpdevries , @jallan_umass, and @djoerd 🎉

Our #ecir2023📜🇮🇪 paper on Cross Market Recommendation - “Market Aware Models for Efficient Cross Market Recommendation”, with me, @maliannejadi, @ekanou is available on arXiv! 📜 arxiv.org/abs/2302.07130 💻 github.com/samarthbhargav…

@manasgaur90 @UMBC Congrats Manas!

#newbeginnings I am joining @UMBC as Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Comp. Sc. #newResearchDirections #knowledgeinfusedlearning #conversatioalai, #explainableai #mentalhealthcare #clinicalNLP #responsibleAI #Connect : manas@umbc.edu #MoreInfo: cs.umbc.edu/manas

@nabil_abubaker Congrats Dr. Nabil!

I'm thrilled to announce that yesterday I successfully defended my PhD thesis in Computer Engineering at Bilkent University. Definitely a rewarding journey.

PhD position alert (please RT): Conversational search and recommendation at the University Of Amsterdam @irlab_amsterdam DM me if you want to apply, or come and chat with me at #ECIR2022. More info: vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/PhD-Po… #SIGIR2022 #CIKM2022 #RecSys2022

About to start my talk about our #WSDM2022 Cup on XMarket recommendation. @XMarketRec @WSDMSocial

I am looking for motivated and talented Ph.D. students to join my lab (Data Science and Applications) at Utah State University. Please refer to for more information cs.usu.edu/people/HamidKa… Please retweet/share!

@maliannejadi @UvA_Amsterdam @irlab_amsterdam Congratulations Mohammad, Well-deserved!! Any post-doc openings ? 😅

I'm thrilled to announce that I am starting a new role at the IRLab at the University of Amsterdam as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in IR. I will continue working on conversational IR and recommender systems. @UvA_Amsterdam @irlab_amsterdam

Doctoral candidates @hamedrab, advised by @jallan_umass, and @raghav_addanki, advised by @polylogblog and @CameronMusco, have been selected to receive the Spring 2022 #ManningCICS Dissertation Writing Fellowships. Read more: bit.ly/3f5CM8s

🚨 #SOTA Alert 🚨 Congratulations to G13Destroyer for their latest submission to XMRec @WSDMSocial Cup! The SOTA nDCG@10 is now pushed to 0.6574, and HR@10 to 0.7604. #WSDM2022 #RecSys

Very thankful to @umasscs and the Graduate Awards Committee for the generous Dissertation Writing Fellowship, now I can only focus on wrapping up my thesis work during spring 2022...

Amazing turnout in our #WSDM2022 Cup on cross-market recommendation. Today, we have received the highest number of submissions so far (33 and counting). Looking forward to more submissions and an amazing workshop at @WSDMSocial @ekanou @hamedrab @AliVardasbi @irlab_amsterdam

Six weeks on, and here are some statistics of our ongoing XMRec #WSDM2022 Cup: - 240 participants, - 77 active teams, - 468 submissions, - Highest nDCG@10: 0.6554. Many thanks to the participants & look forward to more submissions! The competition ends on January 17, 2022.

Super excited to share key stats of the first week of XMRec #WSDM2022 Cup: - 79 registered participants, - 14 active teams, - 56 submissions. - Highest nDCG@10: 0.6215 (compared to last week's 0.5025!) Many thanks to the participants, and look forward to more submissions!

Applications for summer 2022 internships @SpotifyResearch are open! Apply here or reach out if you have questions lifeatspotify.com/jobs/summer-in…

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Excited to join @AmazonScience for applied science intern position #Day1 #BePeculiar #AmazonIntern

Stay tuned for more information on this. We are organizing a task at WSDM for cross-market recommendation. Here are some details: xmrec.github.io/wsdmcup