Academic services.

IR-RAG: Workshop on Information Retrieval's Role in RAG Systems

Organizers: Negar Arabzadeh, Ziheng Chen, Fabio Petroni, Federico Siciliano, Fabrizio Silvestri, Giovanni Trappolini.

Vision-Language Models: Challenges of Real-World Deployment

Organizers: Mozhgan Nasr Azadani, Yimu Wang, Krzysztof Czarnecki, Negar Arabzadeh, Richard He Bai, Lukas Schmid.

Query Performance Prediction: Theory, Techniques and Applications

Negar Arabzadeh, Chuan Meng, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Ebrahim Bagheri.

Query Performance Prediction: Techniques and Applications in Information Retrieval

Negar Arabzadeh, Chuan Meng, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Ebrahim Bagheri.

Query Performance Prediction: From Fundamentals to Advanced Techniques

Negar Arabzadeh, Chuan Meng, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Ebrahim Bagheri.

Preference-Based Offline Evaluation

Charles Clarke, Fernando Diaz, Negar Arabzadeh.

Understanding and Mitigating Gender Bias in Information Retrieval Systems

Amin Bigdeli, Negar Arabzadeh, Shirin Seyedsalehi, Morteza Zihayat, Ebrahim Bagheri.

Gender Fairness in Information Retrieval Systems

Amin Bigdeli, Negar Arabzadeh, Shirin Seyedsalehi, Morteza Zihayat, Ebrahim Bagheri.

IGLU Challenge — Interactive Grounded Language Understanding

Co-organizer of a large-scale NLP challenge on human–AI collaboration. Led task design, dataset curation, and evaluation protocol; attracted 30+ participating teams.

Reproducibility Track Chair, SIGIR 2026

Publicity Chair, CHIIR 2026

Workshop Track Chair, ECIR 2026

Area Chair, SIGIR 2026

Area Chair, NeurIPS 2026

Area Chair, ACL Rolling Review (ARR 2026)

Session Chair, CIKM 2025

Session Chair, SIGIR-AP 2024

Doctoral Symposium Panelist, ACM WSDM 2026

Doctoral Symposium Panelist, ACM CIKM 2025

ProActLLM Workshop, CIKM 2025

Responsible AI Panel, Canadian AI 2024

SIGIR Virtual Forum

Organized and moderated a monthly seminar series, inviting speakers from academia and industry.

The Web Conference

ECIR

CIKM

SIGIR

ICTIR

RecSys

ICML

ICLR

ACL Rolling Review

ICWSM