Samy Ateia

PhD candidate in Information Science at the University of Regensburg since 2022, researching information retrieval, biomedical question answering, RAG, and LLM-supported search.

• BioASQ / CLEF challenge winner in 2023–2025.
• Research published at ECIR, SIGIR, TPDL, and CLEF.
• Program committee member: CIKM 2024–2026, BioASQ 2026, and SIGIR 2026.
• Recent work: MedNuggetizer, BioRAGent, and Query Smarter, Trust Better?

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Independent consultant since 2019, delivering AI and search systems for biomedical R&D, enterprise knowledge, e-commerce, patent analytics, and systematic reviews.

• LLM-based ranking, evaluation, extraction, and classification.
• Semantic, vector, and hybrid search with Elasticsearch / OpenSearch.
• Python and FastAPI pipelines from prototype to Docker / Kubernetes.

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