Hi! I am a PhD student in the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo, advised by Jimmy Lin. The past few months, I've been working on LLMs (and that sort of things) at Yupp AI. During my PhD, I've also had the chance to work at Google and Apple.
Previously, I completed my undergraduate studies at the University of Waterloo, where I majored in Computer Science and Combinatorics and Optimization. During my undergrad, I've had the chance to intern at Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute (Mila), ContextLogic, and RBC Research.
My research interests lie at the intersection of Information Retrieval and Natural Language Processing. More specifically, I'm interested in tasks such as Open Domain Question Answering, Fact Verification, and Document Ranking. In recent months, I have also been investigating the memory component of Large Language Models and the interplay between the inherent reasoning and memory modules, entangled in a single LLM or otherwise. I look forward to contributing to the next generation of reasoners capable of working with a constantly evolving ocean of both structured and unstructured data. Some of my earlier work explores how to build neural search systems that promote correct and reliable information and work well in low-resource domains such as biomedical texts.
We have fives papers accepted at SIGIR 2025! See you all in Padova!
We had a successful first year of the TREC RAG 2024 Track with many submissions! Looking forward to Y2.
Organizing the TREC RAG 2024 Track! Do submit your systems :))
We introduced RankZephyr which garnered great community engagement!
I'm excited to visit Singapore for EMNLP 2023 to present our work "How Does Generative Retrieval Scale to Millions of Passages?"
I will be leading the TREC 2024 Retrieval-Augmented Generation Track! More information coming soon!
We introduced RankVicuna, the first zero-shot listwise reranker that leverages open-source LLMs!
Sahel Sharifymoghaddam, Ronak Pradeep, Andre Slavescu, Ryan Nguyen, Andrew Xu, Zijian Chen, Yilin Zhang, Yidi Chen, Jasper Xian, Jimmy Lin
Jimmy Lin, Arthur Haonan Chen, Carlos Lassance, Xueguang Ma, Ronak Pradeep, Tommaso Teofili, Jasper Xian, Jheng-Hong Yang, Brayden Zhong, Vincent Zhong
Nandan Thakur, Ronak Pradeep, Shivani Upadhyay, Daniel Campos, Nick Craswell, Jimmy Lin
Ronak Pradeep, Nandan Thakur, Shivani Upadhyay, Daniel Campos, Nick Craswell, Jimmy Lin
Ronak Pradeep, Nandan Thakur, Shivani Upadhyay, Daniel Campos, Nick Craswell, Jimmy Lin
Shivani Upadhyay, Ronak Pradeep, Nandan Thakur, Daniel Campos, Nick Craswell, Ian Soboroff, Hoa Trang Dang, Jimmy Lin
Zijian Chen, Ronak Pradeep, Jimmy Lin
Ronak Pradeep, Nandan Thakur, Sahel Sharifymoghaddam, Eric Zhang, Ryan Nguyen, Daniel Campos, Nick Craswell, Jimmy Lin
Jasper Xian, Saron Samuel, Faraz Khoubsirat, Ronak Pradeep, Md Arafat Sultan, Radu Florian, Salim Roukos, Avirup Sil, Christopher Potts, Omar Khattab
Shivani Upadhyay, Ronak Pradeep, Nandan Thakur, Nick Craswell, Jimmy Lin
Ronak Pradeep, Daniel Lee, Ali Mousavi, Jeffrey Pound, Yisi Sang, Jimmy Lin, Ihab Ilyas, Saloni Potdar, Mostafa Arefiyan, Yunyao Li
Junxiong Wang, Ali Mousavi, Omar Attia, Ronak Pradeep, Saloni Potdar, Alexander Rush, Umar Farooq Minhas, Yunyao Li
Mofetoluwa Adeyemi, Akintunde Oladipo, Ronak Pradeep, Jimmy Lin
Manveer Singh Tamber, Ronak Pradeep, Jimmy Lin
Ronak Pradeep, Sahel Sharifymoghaddam, Jimmy Lin
Ronak Pradeep, Sahel Sharifymoghaddam, Jimmy Lin
Jimmy Lin, Ronak Pradeep, Tommaso Teofili, Jasper Xian
Ronak Pradeep, Jimmy Lin
Ronak Pradeep, Kai Hui, Jai Gupta, Adam D Lelkes, Honglei Zhuang, Jimmy Lin, Donald Metzler, Vinh Q Tran
Dake Zhang, Ronak Pradeep
Xueguang Ma, Xinyu Zhang, Ronak Pradeep, Jimmy Lin
Manveer Singh Tamber, Ronak Pradeep, Jimmy Lin
Ronak Pradeep, Haonan Chen, Lingwei Gu, Manveer Singh Tamber, Jimmy Lin
Ronak Pradeep, Yilin Li, Yuetong Wang, Jimmy Lin
Xueguang Ma, Ronak Pradeep, Rodrigo Nogueira, Jimmy Lin
Xueguang Ma, Kai Sun, Ronak Pradeep, Minghan Li, Jimmy Lin
Jimmy Lin, Haonen Chen, Chengcheng Hu, Sheng-Chieh Lin, Yilin Li, Xueguang Ma, Ronak Pradeep, Jheng-Hong Yang, Chuan-Ju Wang, Andrew Yates, Xinyu Zhang
Ronak Pradeep, Xueguang Ma, Rodrigo Nogueira, Jimmy Lin
Edwin Zhang, Sheng-Chieh Lin, Jheng-Hong Yang, Ronak Pradeep, Rodrigo Nogueira, Jimmy Lin
Jimmy Lin, Xueguang Ma, Sheng-Chieh Lin, Jheng-Hong Yang, Ronak Pradeep, Rodrigo Nogueira
Justin Borromeo, Ronak Pradeep, Jimmy Lin
Kelvin Jiang, Ronak Pradeep, Jimmy Lin
Ronak Pradeep, Xueguang Ma, Xinyu Zhang, Hang Cui, Ruizhou Xu, Rodrigo Nogueira, Jimmy Lin
Ronak Pradeep, Xueguang Ma, Rodrigo Nogueira, Jimmy Lin
Xueguang Ma, Kai Sun, Ronak Pradeep, Jimmy Lin
Edwin Zhang, Nikhil Gupta, Raphael Tang, Xiao Han, Ronak Pradeep, Kuang Lu, Yue Zhang, Rodrigo Nogueira, Kyunghyun Cho, Hui Fang, Jimmy Lin
Ronak Pradeep, Rodrigo Nogueira, Jimmy Lin
Rodrigo Nogueira, Zhiying Jiang, Ronak Pradeep, Jimmy Lin
Parsa Torabian, Ronak Pradeep, Jeff Orchard, Bryan Tripp
... and a few more papers I might have potentially missed! See my Google Scholar for the complete list.
Thanks for making it to here :-) As a token of gratitude and since you asked nicely for it, I shall also introduce you to a few of my Spotify playlists.
And everything under the sun is in tune. A music dump of sorts. Updated regularly.
An allusion to the Beatles song. Curated by a younger me for a someone who stole my heart. Not updated anymore.
And what exactly is a dream of love? Here I take on Liszt and attempt to provide a longer answer to aid with my sleep. Updated semi-regularly.