Biography

I am a second year PhD student at the Università della Svizzera italiana (USI) in Lugano, Switzerland, supervised by prof. Fabio Crestani. My research interests lie in conversational approaches to information retrieval. I’m particularly interested in modeling mixed-initiative conversational search. I’d be happy to discuss anything related to the topic, so feel free to reach out.

In the past, I worked on various NLP and IR topics during research visits in TakeLab Zagreb, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies, Singapore University of Technology and Design, and GRILL at the University of Glasgow. I am currently visiting IAI group at University of Stavanger.

I am talking about my PhD experience on my “Little PhD things” Youtube channel.

Interests

  • Conversational Information Retrieval
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Conversational AI

Education

  • PhD student, started in 2020

    Università della Svizzera italiana

  • Master in Computer Science, 2018

    University of Zagreb

  • BSc in Computer Science, 2015

    University of Zagreb

Recent Posts

Questions to ask before joining a research group

When choosing a research group to do your PhD or postdoc in, it’s incredibly important to know what you’re getting into and is it the right fit for you. In other words, it’s important to make an informed decision on whether that is the place you want to spend your next couple of year’s worth of brainpower in.

Little PhD things nobody talks about

Hello everybody, I’m Ivan, a second year PhD student looking to start something new: creating content about little things that make up a PhD. I started my PhD a week before the first lockdown in Europe in March 2020 and I spent most of the PhD working from home.