Iadh Ounis

Professor; Information Retrieval Researcher; Former Director of Knowledge Exchange @ SICSA

[ACM TOIS @acmtois]

"Investors Are (Not) Always Right: A Comparison of Transaction-Based and Profitability-Based Metrics for Financial Asset Recommendations" by Javier Sanz-Cruzado, Richard McCreadie, Nikolaos Droukas, Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis got accepted in ACM TOIS (just accept).

[Glasgow IR Group @ir_glasgow]

@macavaney @ntonellotto @joelmmackenzie @torstensuel @mengzaiqiao @JinyuanF @rodrygo_santos @iadh @craig_macdonald 🎄 PyTerrier Advent 24/25: Removing low-quality docs can boost search quality and cut indexing costs. Our SIGIR’24 paper QT5 trains a T5 model to filter passages at indexing time—easy to integrate, and works with dense, PISA, or SPLADE indexers too.

[Glasgow IR Group @ir_glasgow]

@macavaney @ntonellotto @joelmmackenzie @torstensuel @mengzaiqiao @JinyuanF 🎄 PyTerrier Advent 23/25: Results too homogeneous? Try a diversification reranker. Shown: implicit MMR on BM25 or dense retrieval—but explicit methods like xQuAD (@rodrygo_santos) are easy too.

[ZEYUAN MENG @ZeyuanMeng]

Happy to share that our paper entitled "RecRankerEval: A Reproducible Framework for Deploying and Evaluating LLM-based Top-k Recommenders" has been accepted at the ECIR 2026 conference as a reproducibility paper, co-authored with @ZixuanYI_ and @iadh .  #ECIR2026

[ZEYUAN MENG @ZeyuanMeng]

Happy to share that our paper entitled “Knowledge-enhanced Multi-Agent for LLM-based Recommendation” has been accepted at the ECIR 2026 conference as a short paper, co-authored with @ZixuanYI_ and @iadh .  #ECIR2026

[SIGIR-AP 2025 @ACMSIGIR_AP]

Congratulations!🥳🥳 #sigirap2025

[Javier Sanz-Cruzado @JavierSanzCruza]

Happy to announce that our paper "Investors Are (Not) Always Right: A Comparison of Transaction-Based and Profitability-Based Metrics for Financial Asset Recommendations", with @richardm_, Nikos Droukas, @craig_macdonald & @iadh has accepted at ACM TOIS! 🧵(1/5)

[UofG News @UofGNews]

PyTerrier, a software platform developed at @GlasgowCS which helps facilitate the development of AI-powered search engines, has won a national award from @bcs!

Read more here: https://t.co/fco57GL99S

[Glasgow IR Group @ir_glasgow]

We are happy to sponsor the Keith Van Rijsbergen (KvR) Award at #ECIR2026

📢 𝗡𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻!

Details and Submission Form: https://t.co/ciCJkp5X1U

🗓 𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲: 𝟭𝟱 𝗝𝗮𝗻𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲
https://t.co/J1g36MWsD4

[Glasgow IR Group @ir_glasgow]

We’re hiring a 2nd RA/PDRA at @GlasgowCS for the EU CLIMINVEST Project! Work with @iadh, @craig_macdonald & @richardm_ on LLM-powered AI agents for ESG & risk assessment in green investment. Apply by Dec 15: https://t.co/gBXIYo8je6

[Chris Anagnostopoulos @chrisatglasgow]

Help us understand stakeholder perspectives in the cultural & creative industries! 🎨🎭
Participate in a 15 min questionnaire from our EU ELLIE project . Your insights will help shape research in this vital sector!
📋 https://t.co/wLUQ9BOdak

#CCIs #Research #CulturalSector

[Glasgow IR Group @ir_glasgow]

📢 We are now also on LinkedIn!

Follow the Glasgow Information Retrieval Group on LinkedIn for updates on IR research, @ir_glasgow activities, events, and collaborations:

🔗 https://t.co/fy52d1eDkY

#InformationRetrieval #IR #AI #recsys #RecommenderSystems #Glasgow

[Glasgow IR Group @ir_glasgow]

🚀 At #RecSys2025 spot #24, Jackson Dam is demoing RecViz, a graph-based visual analytics tool for exploring recommendation datasets & results.
📊 Great for qualitative analysis & insight generation.
👏 A fantastic undergraduate achievement at @GlasgowCS with @iadh & @ZixuanYI_

[Iadh Ounis @iadh]

Heading to ACM #RecSys2025 in Prague! Looking forward to a great programme of research, networking opportunities and the traditional karaoke! Already enjoying a coffee and croissant at the airport before my early flight. Hope to meet many of you there! #RecSys #AcademicTravel

[Craig Macdonald @craig_macdonald]

RA job in @ir_glasgow on an EU Horizon project, with @iadh @richardm_ and myself, on the use of LLMs in developing AI agents for the risk and ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) assessment of sustainability-focused green investment projects. 👇

[SICSA Scotland @SICSA_Scotland]

@iadh General Chair of #ICDCS2025 with some lovely SICSA volunteers :)

Lots of positive vibes on the last day and great conversations still happening 🙌 A packed afternoon of great sessions still to come before the closing ceremony🌟

[Iadh Ounis @iadh]

Delighted to see the revamped Posters & Demos session at #ICDCS2025 — an innovation @chrisatglasgow, @graham_mcdonald, and I proposed in conjunction with the track chairs this year — lead to such a strong attendance and engagement. Great to see the plans come to life!

[IEEE ICDCS 2025 @ICDCS2025]

Lively posters and demos session at #ICDCS2025 — engaging conversations and exciting new ideas across the distributed systems spectrum. All fueled by a touch of Scottish hospitality to keep the energy high!

[Iadh Ounis @iadh]

Journal article “Unifying Isolated Processes for Enhanced Multi-modal Recommendations Using a Graph Transformer” has been accepted at ACM Transactions on Recommender Systems (ToRS); Joint work with @ZixuanYI_  & part of a special issue on best papers from ACM #RecSys 2024

[Iadh Ounis @iadh]

Delighted to see my former PhD student at @ir_glasgow and @GlasgowCS Jingmin Huang, now a lecturer at the University of Southampton; Jingmin served as Demo Co-Chair at #ICDCS2025. Great to catch up at the conference!

[Iadh Ounis @iadh]

Want your LLMs to be safe and responsibly aligned? Time to vaccinate them! 🧬

Fascinating #ICDCS2025 keynote by Ling Liu (Georgia Tech) on reducing fine-tuning costs while boosting safety in LLM deployment.