Pranav Kasela

Research Interests

Information Retrieval: Personalized information retrieval, expert finding, context-aware information retrieval

Publications

A Multi-Domain Benchmark for Personalized Search Evaluation

Elias Bassani, Pranav Kasela, Alessandro Raganato, Gabriella Pasi

CIKM ‘22: Proceedings of the 31st ACM International Conference on Information & Knowledge Management

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SE-PEF: a Resource for Personalized Expert Finding

Pranav Kasela, Gabriella Pasi, Raffaele Perego

SIGIR-AP ‘23: Proceedings of the Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval in the Asia Pacific Region

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

Pranav Kasela, Gabriella Pasi, Raffaele Perego, Nicola Tonellotto

ECIR ‘24: European Conference on Information Retrieval

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SE-PQA: Personalized Community Question Answering

Pranav Kasela, Marco Braga, Gabriella Pasi, Raffaele Perego

WWW ‘24: Companion Proceedings of the ACM on Web Conference 2024

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Utilizing ChatGPT to Enhance Clinical Trial Enrollment

Georgios Peikos, Symeon Symeonidis, Pranav Kasela, Gabriella Pasi

arXiv

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Denoising Attention for Query-aware User Modeling in Personalized Search

Elias Bassani, Pranav Kasela, Gabriella Pasi

NAACL ‘24: Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics

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

Marco Braga, Pranav Kasela, Alessandro Raganato, Gabriella Pasi

WI-IAT ‘24: 2024 IEEE International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology

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Leveraging Large Language Models for Medical Information Extraction and Query Generation

Georgios Peikos, Pranav Kasela, Gabriella Pasi

WI-IAT ‘24: 2024 IEEE International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology

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Investigating Mixture of Experts in Dense Retrieval

Effrosyni Sokli, Pranav Kasela, Georgios Peikos, Gabriella Pasi

arXiv

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PARK: Personalized Academic Retrieval with Knowledge-Graphs

Pranav Kasela, Gabriella Pasi, Raffaele Perego

SSRN Electronic Journal (Preprint)

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Investigating Task Arithmetic for Zero-Shot Information Retrieval

Marco Braga, Pranav Kasela, Alessandro Raganato, Gabriella Pasi

SIGIR '25: The 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

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Services

Conference Reviews:

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

Journal Reviews:

Computers in Biology and Medicine

Teaching

Information Retrieval 2022/2023

Teaching Assistant

Master Degree in Computer Science

University of Milano-Bicocca

Text Mining & Search 2022/2023

Tutor

Master Degree in Data Science

University of Milano-Bicocca

Information Retrieval 2023/2024

Teaching Assistant

Master Degree in Computer Science

University of Milano-Bicocca

Text Mining & Search 2023/2024

Teaching Assistant

Master Degree in Computer Science

University of Milano-Bicocca

Information Retrieval and Recommender Systems 2024/2025

Teaching Assistant

Bachelor’s Degree in Artificial Intelligence

University of Pavia and University of Milano-Bicocca