Avishek Anand
3.West.660, Building 28
TU Delft,
Delft, The Netherlands
Avishek Anand is an Associate Professor in the Web Information Systems (WIS) group within the Software Technology department at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft). His research centers on retrieval-augmented AI systems, especially on improving retrieval to make AI more reliable, transparent, explainable, and capable of scaling sustainably. More broadly, he develops intelligent and trustworthy machine learning methods that help people find, assess, and understand relevant information.
He earned his PhD in Computer Science from the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Saarbrücken. Prior to joining TU Delft, he was an Assistant Professor in Information Retrieval at Leibniz University Hannover. His work has been supported by Amazon Research Awards, Schufa GmbH, the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), and the EU Horizon 2020 programme. He is also affiliated with the L3S Research Center and has been a visiting scholar at Amazon Search.
At TU Delft, he leads the Research, Engineering, and Infrastructure Team (REIT) within the Department of Software Technology. He also serves as General Chair of ECIR 2026, hosted in Delft this year.
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| Mar 29, 2026 | 🌍 ECIR 2026 is being held in Delft, The Netherlands! Excited to serve as General Chair for the 48th European Conference on Information Retrieval. |
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| Jul 01, 2025 | 🏅 Thrilled to share that our paper “Correctness is not Faithfulness in Retrieval Augmented Generation” received an Honourable Mention Award at ICTIR 2025 in Padua 🇮🇹! |
| Apr 01, 2025 | 🏆 Best Paper Award in the IRforGood track at ECIR 2025 for our paper “FlashCheck: Exploration of Efficient Evidence Retrieval for Fast Fact-Checking”! |