Suchana Datta

About

I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Insight Centre for Data Analytics in University College Dublin, Ireland, where I am working with the Victeur team as part of the UCD Centre for Cultural Analytics. While my current research project, Victeur (an ERC-funded project), focuses on developing computational methods to explore the role of European Migrants in Victorian and Neo-Victorian Culture, my research interest broardly includes adhoc information retrieval (IR), query performance predictions (QPP), cultural analytics and explainability. Before joining as a Postdoc, I graduated with a PhD in Computer Science from University College Dublin, Ireland in 2024. My PhD supervisor was Assoc. Prof. Derek Greene from School of Computer Science, UCD. I was affiliated with the Insight Centre for Data Analytics during my PhD. While my earlier focus was on adhoc information retrieval, my PhD research aimed to exploring causality-driven IR, where I pursued novel search interfaces and algorithms towards addressing causality-driven search, i.e. where a search user wants to find out documents answering the 'Why' question, e.g. why was Osama bin Laden assassinated? etc.

Employment

• University College Dublin Occasional Lecturer
  2024 - Present
• University College Dublin Postdoctoral Fellow
  2024 - Present
• University College Dublin Teaching Assistant/Demonstrator
  2020 - Present
• University College Dublin Doctoral Fellow
  2020 - 2024
• Xcelerator Assistant Professor
  2019 - 2020
• Techno India University Assistant Professor
  2018 - 2019
• Prasanta Chandra Mahalanabish College Guest Lecturer
  2017 - 2018
• Indian Statistical Institute Project-linked Person
  2016 - 2018
• Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology, West Bengal Teaching Assistant
  2014 - 2016
• Cognizant Technology Solutions Software Developer
  2013 - 2014

Education

• University College Dublin PhD
  2020 - 2024
• Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology, West Bengal M.Tech
  2014 - 2016
• Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology B.Tech
  2009 - 2013

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (19)

• MIRA: An LLM-Assisted Benchmark for Multi-Category Integrated Retrieval
  2026 DOI: 10.1145/3805712.3808614
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• Projection-Displacement-Based Query Performance Prediction for Embedded Space of Dense Retrievers
  ACM Transactions on Information Systems 2026 DOI: 10.1145/3765617
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• Cultural Analytics for Good: Building Inclusive Evaluation Frameworks for Historical IR
  2026 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-21324-2_38
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• DARE: A Dialectical Framework for Adversarial and Evidence-Aware RAG
  2026 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-21300-6_27
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• Introduction to the Special Issue on Query Performance Prediction
  ACM Transactions on Information Systems 2026 DOI: 10.1145/3827583
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• Combining Query Performance Predictors: A Reproducibility Study
  2025 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-88717-8_9
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• Tales and Truths: Exploring the Linguistic Journey of 19th Century Literature and Non-fiction
  2025 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-88717-8_19
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• A Deep Learning Approach for Selective Relevance Feedback
  2024 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-56060-6_13
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• Unveiling Temporal Trends in 19th Century Literature: An Information Retrieval Approach
  2024 DOI: 10.1145/3677389.3702593
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• RAGing Against the Literature: LLM-Powered Dataset Mention Extraction
  2024 DOI: 10.1145/3677389.3702523
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