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We are delighted to welcome Mariam Arustashvili as our new PhD student. Her research will focus on Large Language Models for Recommendations under the supervision of Krisztian Balog. Mariam is funded by NorwAI, the Norwegian Research Center for AI Innovation.

We are delighted to welcome Pratuat Amatya as our new PhD student. His research will focus on agent-based fact-checking under the supervision of Vinay Setty. Pratuat’s PhD is funded through an industrial grant from the Norwegian Research Council in collaboration with Factiverse AS.

We welcome Gabriel Iturra-Bocaz as our new PhD student, who will focus his research on LLMs for information retrieval, under the supervision of Petra Galuscakova.

We have a PhD position in Large Language Models for Recommendation, funded by the NorwAI research-based innovation center. See the details on jobbnorge. Application deadline is Oct 31.

We welcome Peter Røysland Aarnes as our new PhD student, who will focus his research on explainable AI for fact-checking. Funded by the SFI MediaFutures research center, he will contribute to the Media Content Production & Analysis work package, under the supervision of Vinay Setty.

Associate Professor Petra Galuscakova joins IAI as a faculty member. Petra will work on an intersection of information retrieval and natural language processing. She is interested in providing robust access strategies for complex search scenarios, such as cross-language retrieval and speech retrieval. Petra holds a PhD from Charles University in Prague, after which she spent some time at the University of Maryland and Université Grenoble-Alpes.

Simone Borg Bruun is a third-year PhD student affiliated with the University of Copenhagen and Alka Forsikring. She is working on recommender systems for the insurance domain. Her research interests include learning from sparse and dynamic user actions, multimodal learning, and explainability. Simone will be spending 2 months with us.

We have an opening for an associate professor in NLP. It’s a permanent (tenured) position. Details and application are on jobbnorge.

Ivan Sekulić is a third-year PhD student at the Università della Svizzera italiana (USI) in Lugano, Switzerland. He is working on conversational approaches to information retrieval and will be spending 3 months with us.

We welcome two new PhD students to our group: Nolwenn Bernard and Weronika Łajewska. Both of them are funded by the Norwegian Research Center for AI Innovation (NorwAI) research center and will be contributing to the Language and Personalization work package under Krisztian Balog’s supervision.