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Basics
| Name | Radin Hamidi Rad |
| Label | Postdoctoral Fellow and Researcher |
| radin.rad@utoronto.ca | |
| Url | https://radinhamidi.github.io |
| Summary | Researcher in Information Retrieval, Graph Processing, and Responsible AI with extensive experience in neural architectures, semantic search, and natural language processing. |
Work
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2025.01 - Present Postdoctoral Fellow and Sessional Lecturer
University of Toronto
Researching Adversarial Information Retrieval and teaching graduate courses.
- Designed innovative course materials
- Mentored students in information systems
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2022.06 - 2022.08 AI Research Intern
Microsoft Research
Developed AI models for question tagging and routing in CQA platforms.
- Worked under Dr. Silviu Cucerzan and Nirupama Chandrasekaran
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2022.01 - 2022.04 Applied Machine Learning Intern
Vector Institute
Developed language models for conversational QA.
- Mentored by Dr. Elham Dolatabadi
Education
Skills
| Artificial Intelligence | |
| Deep Learning | |
| Explainable AI | |
| Semantic Search | |
| Natural Language Processing |
| Graph Processing | |
| Graph Neural Networks | |
| Subgraph Search | |
| Heterogeneous Graphs |
| Big Data | |
| Data Analytics | |
| Scalable Systems |
Languages
| English | |
| Fluent |
| Farsi | |
| Native speaker |
Awards
- 2025.01.01
Canadian Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute (CAISI) Grant
CAISI
$100,000 research grant for work on responsible AI.
- 2022.01.01
Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship in Science & Technology
Toronto Metropolitan University
$15,000 awarded for graduate research excellence.
- 2019.01.01
Graduate Scholarship
Toronto Metropolitan University
$30,000 total awarded over 5 years for academic merit.
- 2019.01.01
- 2020.01.01
- 2020.01.01
International Student Scholarship
Toronto Metropolitan University
$7,000 awarded for academic achievement.
- 2019.01.01
FEAS Graduate Funding Award
Toronto Metropolitan University
$6,000 for faculty-level research support.
- 2018.01.01
Top-10 Graduate Student Ranking
Amirkabir University of Technology
Ranked among the top-10 graduate students in the department.
- 2010.01.01
2nd Place - NADCO National Robotic Contest
NADCO
Awarded 2nd place in the national robotics competition.
Volunteer
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2025.01 - 2025.12 Program Committee Member
ACM SIGIR Conference
PC Member for the 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
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2024.01 - 2024.12 -
2023.01 - 2023.12 -
2022.01 - 2022.12 -
2022.01 - 2022.12 -
2022.01 - 2023.12 Reviewer
CIKM Conference
Reviewer for the 31st and 32nd ACM International Conferences on Information and Knowledge Management
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2022.01 - 2025.12 Program Committee Member
ACM Web Science Conference
PC Member for the 14th to 17th ACM Web Science Conferences
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2021.01 - 2022.12 -
2020.01 - 2020.12 Reviewer
MAISoN Workshop
Reviewer for the 6th International Workshop on Mining Actionable Insights from Social Networks
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2020.01 - 2022.12 Reviewer
Canadian Conference on AI
Reviewer for the 33rd to 35th Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Publications
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2025.01.01 Retrieval-Augmented Neural Team Formation
Advances in Information Retrieval - 47th European Conference on Information
By Mohammad Dara and
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2025.01.01 Robust query performance prediction for dense retrievers via adaptive
Mach. Learn.
By Abbas Saleminezhad and
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2024.01.01 Interactive Topic Tagging in Community Question Answering Platforms
Advances in Information Retrieval - 46th European Conference on Information
By Radin Hamidi Rad and
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2024.01.01 A Variational Neural Architecture for Skill-based Team Formation
ACM} Trans. Inf. Syst.
By Radin Hamidi Rad and
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2023.01.01 Neural Architectures for Searching Subgraph Structures
Proceedings of the 46th International {ACM} {SIGIR} Conference on
By Radin Hamidi Rad
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2023.01.01 Quantifying Ranker Coverage of Different Query Subspaces
Proceedings of the 46th International {ACM} {SIGIR} Conference on
By Negar Arabzadeh and
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2023.01.01 Recommendation System over Multi-layer Complex Networks: {A} Wide
Intelligent Systems and Applications - Proceedings of the 2023 Intelligent
By Radin Hamidi Rad and
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2023.01.01 Noisy Perturbations for Estimating Query Difficulty in Dense Retrievers
Proceedings of the 32nd {ACM} International Conference on Information
By Negar Arabzadeh and
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2023.01.01 -
2023.01.01 Learning heterogeneous subgraph representations for team discovery
Inf. Retr. J.
By Radin Hamidi Rad and
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2022.01.01 Subgraph Representation Learning for Team Mining
WebSci '22: 14th {ACM} Web Science Conference 2022, Barcelona, Spain
By Radin Hamidi Rad and
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2022.01.01 A Neural Approach to Forming Coherent Teams in Collaboration Networks
Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Extending Database
By Radin Hamidi Rad and
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2022.01.01 PyDHNet: {A} Python Library for Dynamic Heterogeneous Network Representation
Proceedings of the 31st {ACM} International Conference on Information
By Hoang Nguyen and
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2021.01.01 Retrieving Skill-Based Teams from Collaboration Networks
SIGIR} '21: The 44th International {ACM} {SIGIR} Conference on Research
By Radin Hamidi Rad and
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2021.01.01 PyTFL: {A} Python-based Neural Team Formation Toolkit
CIKM} '21: The 30th {ACM} International Conference on Information
By Radin Hamidi Rad and
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2020.01.01 Learning to Form Skill-based Teams of Experts
CIKM} '20: The 29th {ACM} International Conference on Information
By Radin Hamidi Rad and
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2019.01.01 -
2018.01.01