Activities

🏆 “RMIT-ADMS IR” secured first place in the Dynamic Evaluation (Open-Source) Text-to-Text Track at the MMU-RAGent Workshop, NeurIPS 2025.

Demo of our in-house conversational intelligence (Walert) at RMIT Open Day 2025

Invited Talk at RMIT University - Evaluation of RAG

Featured our Blue Sky paper ‘Everything We Hear: Tackling Misinformation in Podcasts’ in the ADM+S Q4 Report

🏆 3rd Prize - Blue Sky Track at ACM ICMI’24 for Everything We Hear: Towards Tackling Misinformation in Podcasts

Invited Talk at SEEK - Walert & Conversational Search

Invited Talk at Melbourne Search & Recommendation Group (REA Group)

Presented our Late-Breaking Work at ACM ICMI’24 - Towards Investigating Biases in Spoken Conversational Search

Demo of Walert (RAG + NLU) at RMIT Open Day 2024

Invited Talk at RMIT University - Generative AI–based technologies (2024 cohort)

Presented “Towards Detecting and Mitigating Cognitive Bias in Spoken Conversational Search” at MobileHCI’24 (with co-author Kaixin Ji)

Demo of RAG and NLU to visiting researchers from Tsinghua University at RMIT (August 2024)

Participated in the Search-Oriented Conversational Artificial Intelligence (SCAI 2024) workshop at CHIIR 2024

Demo of Walert (NLU + RAG) at ACM CHIIR 2024 (with co-author Futoon Abu Shaqra)

Research Visit at TU Delft (Delft University of Technology), Netherlands, exploring innovative strategies for mitigating podcast misinformation

Presented “Detecting and Mitigating Cognitive Bias in Spoken Conversational Search” at the “Understanding and Mitigating Cognitive Biases in Human-AI Collaboration” workshop at CSCW’23 (with co-author Kaixin Ji)

Demo of Walert (NLU-based) at RMIT Open Day 2023

Demo of Walert for visiting students from St Paul’s Anglican School at the RMIT STEM Hub

Presented“Cognitive Biases in Voice-Only Search for Controversial Topics​” at the ADMS Symposium 2023

🏆 Awarded “Best Oral Presentation” at NTCIR-17 FairWeb-1, Tokyo, Japan

Presented “RMIT at TREC 2021 Fair Ranking Track” at TREC’21 (virtual)

Presented “Evaluating Fairness in Argument Retrieval” at CIKM’21 Virtual Event (Queensland, Australia)

Co-organized CIDDA Research Day (CReD’22) at RMIT University

Participated at the Future Conversations workshop at CHIIR 2021 Virtual Event