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Nandan Thakur
@beirmug
PhD @uwaterloo | working on search and agents | (beir.ai, miracl.ai, TREC-RAG and FreshStack)
Bengaluru, India
thakur-nandan.github.io
Joined July 2016
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    Nandan Thakur
    @beirmug
    May 6
    My new Weaviate podcast from Argentina with a freshly brewed mate in hand!πŸ§‰πŸ‡¦πŸ‡· It's always fun to chat with @CShorten30: I talk about search agents, I'm amazed how this field has changed rapidly and share ORBIT findings & research ideas! πŸ’š
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    Connor Shorten
    @CShorten30
    May 5
    How do we train and evaluate Search Agents? πŸ‘ΎπŸ”Ž I am SUPER EXCITED to publish a new episode of the Weaviate Podcast with Nandan Thakur (@beirmug) on Search Agents! πŸŽ™οΈπŸ’š Firstly, congratulations to Nandan who has just completed his Ph.D. at the University of Waterloo advised by
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    Nandan Thakur
    @beirmug
    Jul 7
    We release a new agentic toolkit to unify the whole evaluation pipeline at TREC RAG this year. Check out the RAGDoll repository. paper to come out soon...
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    Nour Jedidi
    @nour_jedidi
    Jul 6
    Nuggets, rubrics, side-by-side comparisons, citation support… all useful ways to evaluate RAG, but these pieces are generally scattered across different tools and workflows Introducing RAGDoll 🐈, an end-to-end toolkit for evaluating long-form RAG answers 🧡
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    Nandan Thakur
    @beirmug
    Jul 2
    Happy to be a small part of this amazing weaviate podcast, I would recommend checking out all the amazing lineup of speakers! πŸ’š
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    Weaviate Podcast
    @weaviatepodcast
    Jul 1
    Happy July 1st! We're halfway through 2026 and the Weaviate Podcast has added 7 new episodes! πŸŽ™οΈπŸŽ‰ We've explored AI-powered search and query understanding, multi-vector search and late interaction, and retrieval redesigned for agents. We got into data agents and the Data Agent
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    Nandan Thakur
    @beirmug
    Jun 27
    One of my early collaborators and proud academic siblings, we have worked on multiple projects together ever since early MIRACL days! ✨ Many congratulations DR @crystina_z! I wish you good luck for your future! πŸŽ“πŸŽ“
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    Jimmy Lin
    @lintool
    Jun 25
    Congratulations DR Xinyu Crystina Zhang @crystina_z for just having successfully defended her Ph.D.! "Multilingual Embeddings: Data, Training, and Understanding" πŸŽ‰
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