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Jack McKechnie

@jackmckechnie.bsky.social

PhD student at the University of Glasgow.

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Yesterday, @ttsamurai.bsky.social has been busy at #ECIR2025, demoing FinPersona (w/ย M Suzuki l, K Izumi, @javiersanzcruza.bsky.social, @richardmcc.bsky.social & @iadhounis.bsky.social). Great to see many people interested in FinTech LLM agents!

Try Demo at: huggingface.co/spaces/TTsam...

08.04.2025 13:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Happy to share that our (w/ @grahammcdonald.bsky.social and @craigmacdonald.bsky.social) work "Measuring Hypothesis Testing Errors in the Evaluation of Retrieval Systems" has been accepted to #SIGIR2025 as a short paper! ๐ŸŽ‰Exciting times! ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น

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05.04.2025 08:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Two days left to apply to this postdoctoral position in Responsible AI/IR as part of the PHAWM project at @uofgcompsci.bsky.social

Deadline: 26th March
Details: www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research...

24.03.2025 11:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

About a week left to apply to this postdoctoral position in Responsible AI/IR at @irglasgow.bsky.social

Details are below. Deadline to apply: 26th March

18.03.2025 11:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

At 15:00 on 13th January, Francesco Luigi De Faveri from University of Padua will give an #IRTalk entitled "Preserving Privacy in Information Retrieval: Leveraging Differential Privacy Across Domains". Details: samoa.dcs.gla.ac.uk/events/viewt...

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07.01.2025 16:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Today, Xiaoyu Zhang from Shandong University is giving an #IRTalk entitled "Enhancing Conversational Recommender Systems: Integrating Knowledge, Context, and Emotions". Details: samoa.dcs.gla.ac.uk/events/viewt...

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06.01.2025 15:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

At 15:00 on 6th January, Xiaoyu Zhang from Shandong University will give an #IRTalk entitled "Enhancing Conversational Recommender Systems: Integrating Knowledge, Context, and Emotions". Details: samoa.dcs.gla.ac.uk/events/viewt...

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04.01.2025 15:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Happy to share that our (w/ @grahammcdonald.bsky.social and @craigmacdonald.bsky.social ) work "Context Example Selection For LLM Generated Relevance Assessments" has been accepted to #ecir2025 as a full paper! ๐ŸŽ‰ Exciting times! ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น
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17.12.2024 10:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 25    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

At 15:00 on 9th Dec, Jianghao Lin from Shanghai Jiaotong University will give an #IRTalk entitled "Deploying LLMs for Industrial RecSys: From Effectiveness Improvement to Efficiency Optimization". Details: samoa.dcs.gla.ac.uk/events/viewt...

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05.12.2024 13:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

At 15:00 on 2nd December, Xinghai Hu from Tiktok will give an #IRTalk entitled "Building Trustworthy Recommendation System". Details: samoa.dcs.gla.ac.uk/events/viewt...

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@irglasgow.bsky.social

27.11.2024 16:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Today, Jianling Wang from Google DeepMind is giving an #IRTalk entitled "When LLMs Meet Recommendations: Scalable Hybrid Approaches to Enhance User Experiences". Details: samoa.dcs.gla.ac.uk/events/viewtalโ€ฆ

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25.11.2024 15:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

At 15:00 on 25th November, Jianling Wang from Google DeepMind will give an #IRTalk entitled "When LLMs Meet Recommendations: Scalable Hybrid Approaches to Enhance User Experiences". Details: samoa.dcs.gla.ac.uk/events/viewt...

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18.11.2024 16:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 14    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Hello everyone! Happy to be here! If you are interested on the research that we do at @irglasgow.bsky.social (IR, RecSys, NLP), I have created an starter pack for you!

Access it here: go.bsky.app/BM6iHbU

I will keep updating it over time as more people in our team join BlueSky!

18.11.2024 14:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

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