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Aleksandr "Sasha" Petrov

@apetrov.bsky.social

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

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Vicki @vickiboykis.com · 12/01/2025

AWS Lambda functions have an incredible opportunity to rebrand as agents

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Aleksandr "Sasha" Petrov @apetrov.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

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.

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Aleksandr "Sasha" Petrov @apetrov.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

I am happy to share that my full research paper, “CountNet: 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!

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Aleksandr "Sasha" Petrov @apetrov.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

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

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Aleksandr "Sasha" Petrov @apetrov.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

... and where LLMs need help

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Aleksandr "Sasha" Petrov @apetrov.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Nice suggestions where LLMs be useful for recsys

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Aleksandr "Sasha" Petrov @apetrov.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Today we have a LLMs +RecSys talk by Jianling Wang from Google Deepmind at our seminar at @irglasgow.bsky.social

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Aleksandr "Sasha" Petrov @apetrov.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Today, I have finally received my "Outstanding Reviewer Award" from #RecSys 2024.

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Aleksandr "Sasha" Petrov @apetrov.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

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

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Aleksandr "Sasha" Petrov @apetrov.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

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!

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Aleksandr "Sasha" Petrov @apetrov.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

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

asash.github.io

Aleksandr V. Petrov - Personal website

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Aleksandr "Sasha" Petrov @apetrov.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

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).

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Aleksandr "Sasha" Petrov @apetrov.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

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.

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Aleksandr "Sasha" Petrov @apetrov.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

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 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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Aleksandr "Sasha" Petrov @apetrov.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

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

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