Ehsan Kamalloo

My name is Ehsan (pronounced /eh☀️/ or /ih☀️/, or even /e☀️/). I am a Post-doctoral Fellow at the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, hosted by Jimmy Lin. I am broadly interested in the intersection of natural language processing and information retrieval. My goal is to facilitate information access over massive unstructured materials via:

• Building scalable and robust retrieval systems that are suitable for deployment “in the wild”,
• Data-centric strategies to systematically improve data quality and to overcome bias in data. Previously, I completed my PhD at the University of Alberta, advised by Davood Rafiei. I was also fortunate enough to collaborate with Charles Clarke. I also interned as a researcher at Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab in Montreal and worked with Mehdi Rezagholizadeh, Peyman Passban, and Ali Ghodsi. Prior to PhD, I was working as a software engineer.