Elias Bassani

Education

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  Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca

  2014 - 2017

  Master's degree Computer Science 110/110 magna cum laude

  Thesis title: "An approach to automatically assess the quality of user-generated content in Wikipedia"

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  Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca

  2011 - 2014

  Bachelor's degree Informatics 101/110
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  Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca

  2018 - 2023

  Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science Excellent

  Focused on Information Retrieval (search engines), Personalization, and Deep Learning.Proposed approaches based on Neural Networks and LLM for Personalized Search.Proposed model for Product Search leveraging heterogeneous information sources.Introduced Neural Attention variant for Personalization..Designed approach to efficiently exploit Word Embeddings in Personalized Search using clustering techniques.Built a new benchmark for Personalized Search comprising four domains… Show more Focused on Information Retrieval (search engines), Personalization, and Deep Learning.Proposed approaches based on Neural Networks and LLM for Personalized Search.Proposed model for Product Search leveraging heterogeneous information sources.Introduced Neural Attention variant for Personalization..Designed approach to efficiently exploit Word Embeddings in Personalized Search using clustering techniques.Built a new benchmark for Personalized Search comprising four domains, 20M documents and 2M queries.Designed and implemented a user-friendly Python library (ranx) for ranking evalution, comparison, and fusion.Designed and implemented a user-friendly Python search engine (retriv) for lexical and semantic retrieval.Published in top-ranked Information Retrieval venues (SIGIR, CIKM, ECIR) and Q1 Journals (Information Fusion).Code implemented in Python, PyTorch, PyTorch Lightning, HuggingFace's Transformer library, Hydra, and more. Show less