I’m excited to share that, together with the esteemed ChengXiang Zhai, we’ll be presenting a tutorial on “User Simulation for Evaluating Information Access Systems” at the upcoming 32nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM ’23) in Birmingham, UK, in October. This half-day tutorial is based on our upcoming FnTIR book. We look forward to sharing our insights and also hope for feedback that could shape the final version of the book. Visit our companion website usersim.ai for more info.