I'm a PhD Candidate at the Information Retrieval Lab (IRLab) (formerly ILPS), located in the Science Park campus of the University of Amsterdam. I have a Master's Degree in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Amsterdam and a Bachelor's degree in Information Science from VTU (Visvesvaraya Technological University). You can find a list of my publications on my Scholar page.
My Research interests include: Representation Learning, Disentanglement, Recommender Systems
Email: s<dot>bhargav<at>uva<dot>nl
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Internships
Research Intern Nov ‘22- Feb ‘23- Spotify Netherlands
- Working on Tip-of-the-tongue Retrieval for Music
Education
PhD Candidate 2019- Information Retrieval Lab (IRLab), University of Amsterdam
Promotor/Supervisor: Prof. dr. Evangelos Kanoulas
Co-promotor: Prof. dr. Wilker Aziz
Current Project:
- Investigating Controllable Deep Recommenders using Semi-supervised Disentanglement
- Known Item Retrieval
MSc in Artificial Intelligence 2017-2019 University of Amsterdam
Thesis: Geometric Priors for Disentangling Representations, supervised by dr. Patrick Forre and Andy Keller. I investigated the use of Geometric priors as an inductive bias for Unsupervised Disentanglement.
Bachelor of Engineering, Information Science 2010-2014 Visvesvaraya Technological University
Thesis: Natural Language Interfaces for Business Intelligence Systems. Built a Natural Language Interface that allowed users to query the system using text/voice
Supervision
2022/2023
Alex Papadatos (MSc A.I): (Tentative) Investigating the Impact of different regularization methods for Recommender Systems
2021/2022
Luuk Kaandorp (MSc. A.I): PD-Rec: Should We Personalize the Level of Diversity per User?
2020/2021
- Giguru Scheuer (MSc A.I): ConverSE : a framework for accelerating research into conversational search systems
2019/2020
- Chiel Heldoorn (MSc I.S) Mutual knowledge distillation
- Buck Boon (BSc K.I) On the tip of my tongue: A potential dataset for Question Answering systems
Teaching
2021/2022
- Information Retrieval 2 (52042INR6Y):
- IR2 is a research focused / project based course in Advanced IR. This year, the course underwent significant changes, with lectures and paper presentations being added to it, besides the project. I assisted with the design and delivery of the course, including project supervision.
2020/2021
- Information Retrieval 1 (52041INR6Y):
- IR1 is a mandatory introductory course for MSc A.I students. I was responsible for adapting the previous year's programming assignments.
- Information Retrieval 2 (52042INR6Y):
- IR2 is a research focused / project based course in Advanced IR. I supervised a project this year, titled 'A framework for Reproducibility in Conversational Search systems'
2019/2020
- Information Retrieval 1 (52041INR6Y)
- IR1 is a mandatory introductory course for MSc A.I students. During this iteration of the course, we revamped the course entirely. I created assignments 1 and 3.