It's #sigir2024 time which means I'm tweeting again. Just made it to my home sweet home for the next week. I'm staying at the Club Quarters. Looking forward to catching up with all of my IR friends!

Guys I just ordered Korean food from Mandu on doordash and it's legit. #SIGIR2024

I am your session chair for the Multimodal Recsys session 2:45p at #SIGIR2024. Come hang out with me and the authors of these great papers! Authors, be warned, I will be timekeeping with an iron fist. 🦾

Paul Bennett is giving the opening keynote at SIRIP! #SIGIR2024 Paul is an excellent speaker 👌 -- you should be here.

Mostly hanging out at LLM day at #SIGIR2024. The morning block had 2 speakers from Language Technologies Institute | @CarnegieMellon! Chenyan Xiong and Amanda Bertsch were great speakers.

Bouncing between SIRIP and Evaluation with and for LLMs today. It is jam-packed in the LLM Eval room! One of the best things about the IR community is that we care about evaluation. ☺️

One of my favorite parts of MSFT's LLM relevance judgement paper (dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.114…) is that they give a detailed treatment on their prompting strategy. Super useful insights!

... and if you see me moving a little slowly today, it's because the banquet was a great time. 😁

In case you haven't heard my shilling yet: come to our Workshop On eCommerce at #SIGIR2024! We'll be in the California room all day.

Thank you all for the great talks and discussions! You all made the #SIGIR2024 Workshop on eCommerce a huge success. I'm also very grateful to my co-conspirators: Maarten de Rijke, Surya Kallumadi, Vamsi Salaka, Tracy King. We did it! 💪

I'm here at #cikm2024! Hanging out at industry day this morning. Let's chat about e-commerce search/recs, vision language models, and multimodality.

Huge shout out to Da Xu for running an excellent tutorial: "Landing Generative AI in Industrial Social and E-commerce Recsys", yesterday at #cikm2024. It's a great checklist for productionizing LLMs. Da said he would upload his slides eventually here: landinggai.github.io/CIKM24/

I forgot to mention: I gave a talk today. 😛 I shared stories from the trenches of building a startup on GenAI. Thanks to the organizers of MMSR for inviting me to speak! cikm-mmsr.github.io

I'm at #GoogleCloudNext ! After spending a day with our fellow Cloud AI accelerator cohort, we are at Sphere watching the Wizard of Oz upscaled and expanded for the super resolution of the Sphere, with the help of generative AI. The team did an *incredible* job.

You still have time to submit your papers to #DaQuaMRec, the First International Workshop on #Data #Quality-Aware #Multimodal #Recommendation ACM RecSys 🚀🚀 **July 17, 2025** Cc Claudio Pomo Alberto Carlo Maria Mancino Dietmar Jannach Alessandro B. Melchiorre Shah Nawaz Yubin @Google Next25 Julian Mcauley

If you're like me and forgot to bring an adapter for Italian outlets, you can buy one at Mediaworld, about 10 min taxi ride from the conference center. #SIGIR2025