
Dr Leif Azzopardi
Reader
Computer and Information Sciences
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Prize And Awards
- Best IR4Good Paper Award at the 46th European Conference on Information Retrieval
- Recipient
- 27/3/2024
- ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR) Best Paper Award
- Recipient
- 10/3/2024
- Honourable Mention Best Full Paper Award CHIIR 2023
- Recipient
- 2023
- Top 10 IRIS 2022 LexisNexis Best Paper Award
- Recipient
- 25/2/2022
- ACM ICTIR 2021 Best Paper
- Recipient
- 11/7/2021
- CSTG Mark Resnick Best Paper Award
- Recipient
- 5/10/2020
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Publications
- Data-driven evaluation metrics for heterogeneous search engine result pages
- Azzopardi Leif, White Ryen W, Thomas Paul, Craswell Nick
- CHIIR 2020 - Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval CHIIR 2020 - Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, pp. 213–222 (2020)
- https://doi.org/10.1145/3343413.3377959
- Measuring the utility of search engine result pages : an information foraging based measure
- Azzopardi Leif, Thomas Paul, Craswell Nick
- 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, pp. 605-614 (2018)
- https://doi.org/10.1145/3209978.3210027
- Modelling interaction with economic models of search
- Azzopardi Leif
- SIGIR '14 Proceedings of the 37th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development in Information Retrieval , pp. 3-12 (2014)
- https://doi.org/10.1145/2600428.2609574
- POW: Political overton windows of large language models
- Azzopardi Leif, Moshfeghi Yashar
- The 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (2025)
- Conversational gold : evaluating personalized conversational search system using gold nuggets
- Abbasiantaeb Zahra, Lupart Simon, Azzopardi Leif, Dalton Jeffrey, Aliannejadi Mohammad
- SIGIR '25: Proceedings of the 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2025, pp. 3455-3465 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1145/3726302.3730316
- From query to conscience : the importance of information retrieval in empowering socially responsible consumerism
- van der Sluis Frans, Azzopardi Leif, Meier Florian
- SIGIR '25: Proceedings of the 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2025, pp. 3853-3864 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1145/3726302.3730347
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Professional Activities
- 8th Strathclyde International Perspectives on Cybercrime Summer School
- Contributor
- 26/8/2025
- Engage with Strathclyde: Joining the Dots: Personal Data Security of FinTech Employees
- Speaker
- 25/5/2021
Projects
- Participatory Harm Auditing Workbenches and Methodologies (PHAWM)
- Moshfeghi, Yashar (Principal Investigator) Azzopardi, Leif (Co-investigator) Ruthven, Ian (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2024 - 31-Jan-2028
- Using Chatbot Technology To Assure Quality Knowledge Capture From Space
- Vasile, Massimiliano (Principal Investigator) Azzopardi, Leif (Co-investigator) Minisci, Edmondo (Co-investigator) Moshfeghi, Yashar (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2020 - 31-Jan-2024
- DoSSIER: Domain Specific Systems for Information, Extraction and Retrieval (H2020 MSCA)
- Azzopardi, Leif (Principal Investigator) Halvey, Martin (Co-investigator) Ruthven, Ian (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2019 - 31-Jan-2023
- Cumulative Revelations in Personal Data
- Azzopardi, Leif (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2019 - 30-Jan-2022
- KTP - BiP Solutions Ltd
- Azzopardi, Leif (Principal Investigator) Moshfeghi, Yashar (Co-investigator)
- 30-Jan-2018 - 29-Jan-2021
- BiP Tracker - Search and Recommendation
- Moshfeghi, Yashar (Principal Investigator) Azzopardi, Leif (Co-investigator)
- 05-Jan-2018 - 07-Jan-2018
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Contact
Dr
Leif
Azzopardi
Reader
Computer and Information Sciences
Email: leif.azzopardi@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 3617