Research Interests

Adaptive information retrieval (IR), Query performance prediction (QPP), Conversational IR, Intent mining and diversification, Query expansion, Bipartite graph, Deep learning for IR, Applied ML, and NLP.

Selected Publications (Full publications list at Google Scholar)

International Journals:

• Learning to Adaptively Rank Document Retrieval System Configurations , Romain Deveaud, Josiane Mothe, Md Zia Ullah, Jian-Yun Nie, ACM Transactions of Information Systems (ACM TOIS), 41 pages, pp. 3:1--3:41, Volume 37, Issue 1, DOI:10.1145/3231937. IF: 2.627 (2018)

• Query expansion for Microblog Retrieval Focusing on an Ensemble of Features , Abu Nowshed Chy, Md Zia Ullah, and Masaki Aono, Journal of Information Processing, 16 pages, pp. 61-76, Volume 27, Issue 4, IF:1.03 (2018)

• Microblog Retrieval Using Ensemble of Feature Sets through Supervised Feature Selection, Abu Nowshed Chy, Md Zia Ullah, and Masaki Aono, IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems (IEICE TOIS), 13 pages, pp. 793-806, Volume E100-D, Issue 4, April 2017. IF: 0.718 (2016)

• A Bipartite Graph-based Ranking Approach to Query Subtopics Diversification Focused on Word Embedding Features, Md Zia Ullah and Masaki Aono, IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems (IEICE TOIS), 11 pages, pp. 3090-3100, Volume E99-D, Issue 12, December 2016. [Preprint], IF: 0.718 (2016)

• Estimating a Ranked List of Human Genetic Diseases by Associating Phenotype-Gene with Gene-Disease Bipartite Graphs, Md Zia Ullah, Masaki Aono, and Md Hanif Seddiqui, ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (ACM TIST), Vol.6, No.4, pp. 56:1~56:21, 2015, DOI:10.1145/2700487, IF: 9.57 (2014)

International Conferences:

• Forward and Backward Feature Selection for Query Performance Prediction, Sébastien Déjean, Radu Tudor Ionescu, Josiane Mothe, and Md Zia Ullah, The 35th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing (ACM SAC2020), pp. , Brno, Czechia, 2020.

• Studying the Variability of System Setting Effectiveness by Data Analytics and Visualization , Sébastien Déjean, Josiane Mothe, and Md Zia Ullah, International Conference of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum for European Languages (CLEF2019), pp. 62-74, Lugano, Switzerland, 2019.

• Information Nutritional Label and Word Embedding to Estimate Information Check-Worthiness, Cédric Lespagnol, Josiane Mothe, and Md Zia Ullah, The 42nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2019), pp.941--944 , Paris, France, 2019. (Acceptance rate: 24.4%)

• Query Performance Prediction and Effectiveness Evaluation Without Relevance Judgments: Two Sides of the Same Coin, Stefano Mizzaro, Josiane Mothe, Kevin Roitero, and Md Zia Ullah, The 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2018), pp. 1233-1236, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, 2018. (Acceptance rate: 30%)

• Query Performance Prediction Focused on Summarized Letor Features, Adrian-Gabriel Chifu, Lea Laporte, Josiane Mothe, and Md Zia Ullah, The 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2018), pp. 1177-1180, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, 2018. (Acceptance rate: 30%)

• IRIT QFR: IRIT Query Feature Resource, Serge Molina, Josiane Mothe, Dorian Roques, Ludovic Tanguy, and Md Zia Ullah, International Conference of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum for European Languages (CLEF2017), pp. 69-81, Dublin, Ireland,2017, DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-65813-1_6.

• Query Subtopic Mining Exploiting Word Embedding for Search Result Diversification, Md Zia Ullah, Abu Nowshed Chy, and Masaki Aono, Twelfth Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference (AIRS 2016), pp. 308-314, November 30-December 2, Best Presentation Award, Beijing, China, 2016. [PDF]

• Combining Temporal and Context Aware Features for Microblog Retrieval, Abu Nowshed Chy, Md Zia Ullah, and Masaki Aono, The 2015 International Conference on Advanced Informatics: Concepts, Theory, and Applications (IEEE ICAICTA 2015), pp. 1-6, Best Paper Awarded, August 19-22, Bang Saen, Thailand, 2015, DOI:10.1109/ICAICTA.2015.7335353.

• KDEVIR at ImageCLEF 2014 Scalable Concept Image Annotation Task: Ontology based Automatic Image Annotation, Ismat Ara Reshma, Md Zia Ullah, and Masaki Aono, Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2014, pp. 386-397, September 15-18, Sheffield, UK, 2014, (Winning Team) CLEF Image Annotation Challenge 2014[PDF]

• Query Subtopic Mining for Search Result Diversification, Md Zia Ullah, and Masaki Aono. The 2014 International Conference on Advanced Informatics: Concepts, Theory, and Applications (IEEE ICAICTA 2014), pp. 309-314, August 18th, Bandung, Indonesia, 2014, DOI:10.1109/ICAICTA.2014.7005960

• Ontology based Classification for Multi-label Image Annotation, Ismat Ara Reshma, Md Zia Ullah, Masaki Aono, The 2014 International Conference on Advanced Informatics: Concepts, Theory, and Applications (IEEE ICAICTA 2014), pp. 226-231, August 18th, Best Paper Awarded, Bandung, Indonesia, 2014, DOI:10.1109/ICAICTA.2014.7005945

• Estimating a Ranked List of Human Hereditary Diseases for Clinical Phenotypes by Using Weighted Bipartite Network, Md Zia Ullah, Masaki Aono, and Md Hanif Seddiqui. The 35th Annual International Conference of IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (IEEE EMBS 2013), pp. 3475-3478, July 3rd, Osaka, Japan, 2013, DOI:10.1109/EMBC.2013.6610290

Mentoring

• Ismat Ara Reshma, Masters Student, 2012~2014
• Abu Nowshed Chy, Masters Student, 2014~2016
• Abu Nowshed Chy, Doctoral Student, 01/04/2016~12/30/2016
• Sun Yiwen, Masters Student, 01/04/2016~30/12/2016

Teaching Experience

Instructor, 2IS: Innovative Information Systems, Universite Toulouse I – Capitole, UT1

• Data Science - Information retrieval (Masters level), 2017/01~ present
• R, Python

Instructor, OS: Operating systems, Universite Toulouse II – Jean Jaures, UT2

• Python programming (Undergraduate level), 2018/09~2019/02

Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, PCIU

• Java Programming Lab (Undergraduate Level), 2017/01~2017/04
• Microprocessor (Undergraduate Level), 2017/01~2017/04
• C Programming Lab (undergraduate Level), 2017/01~2017/04
• Competitive Programming (Undergraduate Level), 2017/01~2017/04

Lecturer, Computer Science and Engineering, BUBT

• Computer Graphics (Undergraduate Level), 2011/06~2011/09
• Data Communications (Undergraduate Level), 2011/06~2011/09
• Computer Fundamentals (undergraduate Level), 2011/06~2011/09

Industry Experience

Software Engineer, Proggasoft

• Web Application Development: PHP, MySQL, JQuery, 2011/04~2011/05

Talks:

• SIGIR2020, Xi'an, China, July 2020
• SAC2020, Brno, Czech Republic, March 2020
• SIGIR2019, Paris, France, July 2019
• SIGIR2018, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, July 2018
• AIRS, Beijing, China, November 2016
• NTCIR-12, Tokyo, Japan, June 2016
• ICAICTA Conference, Bundung, Indonesia, August 2014
• Web Intelligence and Interaction, Yokohama, Japan, December 2013
• IEEE EMBS, Osaka, Japan, July 2013
• NTCIR-10, Tokyo, Japan, June 2013

Scholarship and Grants

Scholarship

• Jasso Scholarship, April 2016~March 2017
• Amano Foundation Scholarship, April 2015~March 2016
• Jasso Scholarship, April 2014~March 2015
• MEXT Scholarship, October 2011~September 2013

Awards

• Hori Foundation Research Grant, April 2015~Sep 2016

Datasets

Useful Resources

Motivational speech:

Thanks to Steve Jobs Speech

Useful References

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