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Building Deep Research Systems

Hosted by Andrei Lopatenko and Doug Turnbull

Fri, Dec 5, 2025

4:00 PM UTC (30 minutes)

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'Relevant Search' masterclass
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What you'll learn

Pushing beyond the LLMs knowledge

How retrieval augmentation and semantic grounding expand LLM capabilities for knowledge discovery.

Deep Research Design Principles

The design principles behind multi-hop reasoning and deep exploration architectures.

The next generation of search eval

Evaluation methods and frameworks shaping next-generation research and information systems.

Why this topic matters

As the boundaries between search engines and reasoning systems blur, the future of research depends on architectures that can not only find information but understand and connect it. Deep research systems redefine how we explore knowledge, transforming retrieval into discovery

You'll learn from

Andrei Lopatenko

Search at Zillow, Google, eBay, Apple

With nearly two decades of experience at Google, Apple, Zillow, Walmart, eBay, and several startups, Andrei has built and scaled advanced search, recommendation, and AI systems serving billions of users. His work spans machine learning, NLP, and large-scale software engineering, focused on turning cutting-edge research into impactful products. A frequent speaker at AI and industry conferences, he specializes in AI strategy, system architecture, and helping organizations translate innovation into measurable business value.

Doug Turnbull

Agentic Search Consultant

Doug Turnbull helps clients build better agentic search systems. He led machine-learning-driven search initiatives at Reddit, significantly improving search relevance through Learning to Rank methods. Doug also advanced e-commerce search at Shopify and served as CTO at OpenSource Connections. He co-authored the influential book Relevant Search (Manning, 2016) and created popular open-source tools, including Quepid and the Elasticsearch Learning to Rank plugin. He regularly speaks at industry conferences, making search relevance accessible to engineers.

Previously at

Zillow
Google
eBay Inc.
Apple

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