Researcher in NLP, IR, and LLM Systems

Building retrieval systems that move from papers to production.

I work at the intersection of information retrieval, user modeling, and generative AI. My recent work has appeared at SIGIR, NAACL, EMNLP, WWW, and ECIR, with a focus on personalized and domain-adaptive retrieval.

Publications

15+

Top-tier and applied venues

Best Paper

WI-IAT 2025

Dense retrieval MoE work

Current Role

Applied Scientist

Inception, G42

About Me

I am currently an Applied Scientist at Inception (G42). I bring 4+ years of work on information retrieval, personalized systems, and large language models, with research that bridges foundational ideas and high-impact implementation.

Key Skills: GenAI, LLMs, IR, RAG | Machine Learning, Deep Learning | Python, R, C, Java | SQL, NoSQL | Cloud Platforms (AWS/Azure) | Data Visualization (Tableau) | Big Data (Spark, Hadoop)

Publications

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CIKM 2022 IR Resource

A Multi-Domain Benchmark for Personalized Search Evaluation

Elias Bassani, Pranav Kasela, Alessandro Raganato, Gabriella Pasi

Proceedings of the 31st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management

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SIGIR-AP 2023 IR Resource

SE-PEF: a Resource for Personalized Expert Finding

Pranav Kasela, Gabriella Pasi, Raffaele Perego

ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval in the Asia Pacific Region

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ECIR 2024 IR MoE

DESIRE-ME: Domain-Enhanced Supervised Information Retrieval Using Mixture-of-Experts

Pranav Kasela, Gabriella Pasi, Raffaele Perego, Nicola Tonellotto

European Conference on Information Retrieval

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WWW 2024 IR Resource

SE-PQA: Personalized Community Question Answering

Pranav Kasela, Marco Braga, Gabriella Pasi, Raffaele Perego

Companion Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference

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arXiv Medical IR

Utilizing ChatGPT to Enhance Clinical Trial Enrollment

Georgios Peikos, Symeon Symeonidis, Pranav Kasela, Gabriella Pasi

Preprint

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NAACL 2024 IR

Denoising Attention for Query-aware User Modeling in Personalized Search

Elias Bassani, Pranav Kasela, Gabriella Pasi

Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics

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WI-IAT 2024 IR Synthetic Resource

Synthetic Data Generation with Large Language Models for Personalized Community Question Answering

Marco Braga, Pranav Kasela, Alessandro Raganato, Gabriella Pasi

IEEE International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology

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WI-IAT 2024 Medical IR

Leveraging Large Language Models for Medical Information Extraction and Query Generation

Georgios Peikos, Pranav Kasela, Gabriella Pasi

IEEE International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology

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Information Systems Personalized IR with Knowledge-Graphs

PARK: Personalized Academic Retrieval with Knowledge-Graphs

Pranav Kasela, Gabriella Pasi, Raffaele Perego

Information Systems Journal

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SIGIR 2025 Parameter-Efficient IR

Investigating Task Arithmetic for Zero-Shot Information Retrieval

Marco Braga, Pranav Kasela, Alessandro Raganato, Gabriella Pasi

The 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

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CLiC-it 2025 NLP

DIETA: A Decoder-only Transformer-based Model for Italian-English Machine TrAnslation

Pranav Kasela, Marco Braga, Alessandro Ghiotto, Andrea Pilzer, Marco Viviani, Alessandro Raganato

Eleventh Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics

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EMNLP 2025 IR

Leveraging Cognitive Complexity of Texts for Contextualization in Dense Retrieval

Effrosyni Sokli, Georgios Peikos, Pranav Kasela, Gabriella Pasi

Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

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WI-IAT 2025 Best Paper

Mixture of Experts Approaches in Dense Retrieval Tasks

Effrosyni Sokli, Pranav Kasela, Georgios Peikos, Gabriella Pasi

IEEE International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology

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arXiv 2026 Domain Specific IR

DRAMA: Domain Retrieval using Adaptive Module Allocation

Pranav Kasela, Marco Braga, Ophir Frieder, Nazli Goharian, Gabriella Pasi, Raffaele Perego

Preprint

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Certifications and Awards

  • SAS Viya Certified Specialist - Machine Learning Verify
  • Cloud Management with Docker and Kubernetes Verify
  • Kirey Group Kaggle Challenge - Technical Award Verify on Kaggle
  • Fondazione Tronchetti Provera Grant

    Awarded to top-performing students in Data Science.

  • Outstanding Reviewer Award - ECIR 2024 Verify
  • Best Paper Award - WI-IAT 2025

    Mixture of Experts Approaches in Dense Retrieval Tasks

    Verify

Services

Conference Reviews

  • ICTIR 2022
  • ICTIR 2023
  • CIKM 2023
  • CIKM 2024
  • ECIR 2024
  • ECIR 2025
  • RecSys 2024
  • SIGIR 2025
  • ECAI 2025
  • ACL 2025
  • EMNLP 2025

Journal Reviews

  • Computers in Biology and Medicine
  • Pattern Recognition Letters
  • Information Systems
  • ACM Transactions on Information Systems
  • Neural Networks

Work Experience

Sep 2025 - Present

Industry

Applied Scientist

Inception, G42, Abu Dhabi

Sep 2024 - Aug 2025

Academic

Post Doctoral Researcher

University of Milano-Bicocca

Sep 2024 - Aug 2025

Academic

Teaching Assistant, IR and Recommender Systems

University of Pavia and University of Milano-Bicocca

Sep 2021 - Sep 2024

Academic

Ph.D. Researcher

University of Milano-Bicocca and ISTI-CNR, Pisa

Sep 2022 - Aug 2024

Academic

Teaching Assistant, Information Retrieval

University of Milano-Bicocca

Conducted during Ph.D. period.

Sep 2022 - Aug 2024

Academic

Tutor and Teaching Assistant, Text Mining and Search

University of Milano-Bicocca

Conducted during Ph.D. period.

Feb 2021 - Aug 2021

Academic

Research Assistant

University of Milano-Bicocca