Negar Arabzadeh

Best Paper Award at ECIR 2026 for “ReFormeR: Learning and Applying Explicit Query Reformulation Patterns.”

with Amin Bigdeli, Mert Incesu, Charles L. A. Clarke, Ebrahim Bagheri.

Best Industry Talk Award at WSDM 2026 for “Can LLMs Uphold Research Integrity? Evaluating the Role of LLMs in Peer Review Quality.”

“QueryGym: A Toolkit for Reproducible LLM-Based Query Reformulation” accepted at The Web Conference 2026.

with Amin Bigdeli, Radin Hamidi Rad, Mert Incesu, Charles L. A. Clarke, Ebrahim Bagheri.

“PeeriScope: A Multi-Faceted Framework for Evaluating Peer Review Quality” accepted at The Web Conference 2026.

with Sajad Ebrahimi, Soroush Sadeghian, Ali Ghorbanpour, Sara Salamat, Seyed Mohammad Hosseini, Hai Son Le, Mahdi Bashari, Ebrahim Bagheri.

Presented MAP: Measuring Agents in Production at a NICE Talk — insights from a year-long empirical study on real-world agent deployments.

Presented MAP: Measuring Agents in Production at Google Sense AI.

Runner-up Best Paper Award at SIGIR-AP 2025 for “Adversarial Attacks against Neural Ranking Models via In-Context Learning.”

Attended my first NeurIPS! It was pretty OVERWHELMING.

Presented “Restructuring the Corpus Makes RAG Work for Math” at the Math AI workshop, NeurIPS 2025.

Presented “DeepScholar-Bench: A Live Benchmark and Automated Evaluation for Generative Research Synthesis” at the LLM Evaluation workshop, NeurIPS 2025.

Presented “Towards Automatically Optimizing Retrieval Augmented AI Systems” at the ML for Systems workshop, NeurIPS 2025.

Released MAP: Measuring Agents in Production — a whole-year-long project.

“Can LLMs Uphold Research Integrity? Evaluating the Role of LLMs in Peer Review Quality” accepted at WSDM 2026 — Best Industry Paper Award.

with Sajad Ebrahimi, Soroush Sadeghian, Seyed Mohammad Hosseini, Alireza Daqiq, Hai Son Le, Mahdi Bashari, Ebrahim Bagheri.

Released “QueryGym: A Toolkit for Reproducible LLM-Based Query Reformulation.”

with Amin Bigdeli, Radin Hamidi Rad, Mert Incesu, Charles L. A. Clarke, Ebrahim Bagheri.

Attended CIKM in Seoul, South Korea — presented one applied research paper, one short paper, and an industry talk.

Graduated with my PhD from the University of Waterloo — thesis nominated for the Gold Thesis Award.