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Aleksandr "Sasha" Petrov

@apetrov

PhD researcher (Recommender Systems) @TerrierTeam, University of Glasgow. Ex. Senior Software Engineer @Amazon The opinions are mine.

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Latest posts by Aleksandr "Sasha" Petrov @apetrov

AWS Lambda functions have an incredible opportunity to rebrand as agents

12.01.2025 19:07 πŸ‘ 298 πŸ” 24 πŸ’¬ 27 πŸ“Œ 5

Additionally, I am happy to share that the full paper titled "Improving Minimax Group Fairness in Sequential Recommendation" " co-authored by Krishna Acharya, David Wardrope, Timos Korres, Anders Uhrenholt and me, has been accepted by the #IR4Good track of #ECIR2025.

10.01.2025 11:42 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I am happy to share that my full research paper, β€œCountNet: Utilizing Repetition Counts in Sequential Recommendation,” has been accepted by the #ECIR2025. This is joint work with Efi Karra Taniskidou and Sean Murphy.

I hope to see you all in Lucca soon!

10.01.2025 11:42 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

@zixuanyi.bsky.social can you comment on that?

04.12.2024 10:57 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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... and where LLMs need help

25.11.2024 15:22 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Nice suggestions where LLMs be useful for recsys

25.11.2024 15:20 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Today we have a LLMs +RecSys talk by Jianling Wang from Google Deepmind at our seminar at @irglasgow.bsky.social

25.11.2024 15:08 πŸ‘ 23 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
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Today, I have finally received my "Outstanding Reviewer Award" from #RecSys 2024.

18.11.2024 15:35 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

If you're interested in what we're doing here at the University of Glasgow, please follow some folks from our team!

18.11.2024 14:08 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

5. I'm a proud father of 2 daughters. My oldest daughter is already studying in her 2nd year at school. My younger daughter is just a 2-month-old baby. Writing a thesis and parenting two girls is quite a challenge!

18.11.2024 14:01 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Aleksandr V. Petrov - Personal website

4. You can find more information about my research and publications on my personal website, asash.github.io

18.11.2024 13:59 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

3. Before moving to Academia, I accumulated over ten years of industrial experience in both big tech companies (e.g., Amazon) and startups (e.g., E-Contenta).

18.11.2024 13:58 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

2. My research is focused on adapting state-of-the-art transformer-based recommendation models to the realistic scenario of large catalogues and big datasets. I regularly publish on RecSys-related conferences, including ACM RecSys, ECIR, WSDM, and similar venues.

18.11.2024 13:56 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Ok, let me introduce myself on this new platform.

1. I'm a researcher of recommender systems and IR platforms.
I'm currently finishing my PhD at RecSys and IR at the University of Glasgow 🏴󠁧󠁒󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

18.11.2024 13:53 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

You should join @idaglasgow.bsky.social as a lecturer then, to teach in Scotland!

18.11.2024 13:38 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0