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RESEARCH
INTERESTS
Web Search, User Models, Effectiveness Metrics, Federated Search, Distributed Information
Retrieval
EDUCATION
AND
RESEARCH
EXPERIENCE
April 2014 – current: Postdoctoral Researcher at the Information and Language Processing
Systems group (ILPS), Informatics Institute, UvA, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Research Topic: User Models and Effectiveness Metrics for Web Search
October 2008 – January 2014: PhD student at the Information Retrieval Group,
Faculty of Informatics, USI, Lugano, Switzerland
Research Topic: Uncertainty in Distributed Information Retrieval
Scientific Adviser: Prof. Fabio Crestani
October 2013 – January 2014: Research Internship at Yandex, Moscow, Russia
Research Topic: User Behavior in Aggregated Search
Scientific Adviser: Dr. Pavel Serdyukov
June – August 2012: Internship at the University of Strathclyde and the University
of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
Research Topic: Risk-Aware Methods for Distributed Information Retrieval
Scientific Advisers: Prof. Ian Ruthven, Department of Computer and Information
Sciences, University of Strathclyde
Dr. Leif Azzopardi, School of Computing Science, University of Glasgow
July 2006 – October 2008: Researcher at the Information Management Research
Group, Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics, St. Petersburg State University,
St. Petersburg, Russia
Research Topic: Adaptive Fusion of Multiple Image Features
Scientific Adviser: Prof. Boris Novikov
September 2001 – July 2006: BSc and MSc at the Faculty of Mathematics and
Mechanics, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia
Major: Computer Science and Software Engineering
Minor: Mathematics
STRENGTHS Information Retrieval, Statistics, Algorithms and Data Structures, Databases, Software
Engineering
COMMUNITY
SERVICE
PC chair: RuSSIR 2015
Co-organizer: Search Intent Mining task (IMine-2) at NTCIR-12
PC member: WWW 2016, SIGIR 2015, WWW 2015, ECIR 2015, ICTIR 2015, AIST
2015, AINL-ISMW 2015, HIA Workshop 2015, SIGIR Demos 2014, ECIR Tutorials
2014, SIGIR Short Papers 2013, SIGIR Posters 2012, SIGIR Posters 2011
Reviewer: TOIS, IP&M, IR Journal
Subreviewer: WSDM 2016, WSDM 2015, WSDM 2013, TPDL 2013, IIR 2013, SAC
2013, WSDM 2012, SPIRE 2012, IIIX 2012, SPIRE 2010, CIKM 2009
OC member: RuSSIR 2015, RuSSIR 2011, SIGIR 2010
OPEN-SOURCE
SOFTWARE
• Python library of click models for web search “PyClick”, available at
https://github.com/markovi/PyClick
• Java library of distributed retrieval techniques “LiDR”, available at
https://github.com/markovi/LiDR
SUPERVISION PhD co-supervision:
• Yaser Norouzzadeh (UvA), User Behavior in Location Search
• Anastasia Giachanou (USI), Opinion Mining for Distributed IR
• Shangsong Liang (UvA), Efficient Data Fusion, graduation December 2014
MSc supervision:
• R´emi de Zoeten (UvA), Computational Stylometry in Adversarial Settings,
graduation July 2015, grade 7.5
• Simon Widler (UvA), Automated and Flexible Error Detection for Mobile Expense
Reporting, graduation on July 2015, grade 7.5
PhD committee: Maria-Hendrike Peetz (UvA), Time-Aware Online Reputation Analysis,
graduation March 2015
TEACHING Course organizer and lecturer:
• February-March 2016: Web Search, 1st year MSc, UvA, Information Studies
program.
• February-March 2015: Web Search, 1st year MSc, UvA, Information Studies
program.
Conference tutorials:
• An Introduction to Click Models for Web Search, SIGIR 2015
• Advanced Click Models and their Applications to IR, SIGIR 2015
• Distributed Information Retrieval and Applications, ECIR 2013
• Distributed Information Retrieval, Yandex Summer School in Distributed Computing
2011
• Distributed Information Retrieval, RuSSIR 2010
• Distributed Information Retrieval, ECIR 2010
Teaching assistant:
• Autumn 2011-2012: Information Retrieval, 3rd year BSc, USI, Faculty of Informatics.
• Spring 2009-2011: Theory of Computation, 3rd year BSc, USI, Faculty of Informatics.
• Autumn 2009: Web-Development, 2nd year BSc, USI, Faculty of Informatics.
• Spring 2008: Java Programming Language, 1st year BSc, St. Petersburg State
University on Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics.