Dr Javier Sanz-Cruzado Puig
- Research Associate (School of Computing Science)
email:
Javier.Sanz-CruzadoPuig@glasgow.ac.uk
pronouns:
He/him/his
F111, 18 Lilybank Gardens, School of Computing Science, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom, G12 8RZ
Research interests
- Recommender systems
- Information retrieval
- Social network analysis
Publications
2025
Chen, Chung-Chi, Lee, Yongjae, Lopez-Lira, Alejandro, Choi, Chanyeol, Mccreadie, Richard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2751-2087 and Sanz-Cruzado, Javier
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7829-5174
(2025)
Information Retrieval in Finance: Industry and Academic Perspectives on Innovation.
In: 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2025), Padua, Italy, 13-17 July 2025,
(Accepted for Publication)
Sanz-Cruzado, Javier ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7829-5174 and Lever, Jake
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8198-2939
(2025)
Accelerating Cross-Encoders in Biomedical Entity Linking.
In: 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2025), 24th BioNLP Workshop, Vienna, Austria, 1 Aug 2025,
(Accepted for Publication)
Guo, Lubingzhi, Sanz-Cruzado, Javier ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7829-5174 and Mccreadie, Richard
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2751-2087
(2025)
Evaluating Knowledge Graph Sources for Non-Personalized Financial Asset Recommendation: 10K Reports vs. Wikidata.
In: The Second Workshop on Knowledge-Enhanced Information Retrieval (KEIR @ ECIR 2025), Lucca, Italy, 10 Apr 2025,
(Accepted for Publication)
Takayanagi, Takehiro, Izumi, Kiyoshi, Sanz-Cruzado, Javier ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7829-5174, McCreadie, Richard
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2751-2087 and Ounis, Iadh
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4701-3223
(2025)
Are Generative AI Agents Effective Personalized Financial Advisors?
In: 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2025), Padua, Italy, 13-17 July 2025,
(Accepted for Publication)
2024
Sánchez, Pablo, Sanz-Cruzado Puig, Javier ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7829-5174 and Bellogin, Alejandro
(2024)
Improving Novelty and Diversity of Nearest-Neighbors Recommendation by Exploiting Dissimilarities.
In: 47th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2025), Lucca, Italy, 06-10 Apr 2025,
(Accepted for Publication)
Takayanagi, Takehiro, Suzuki, Masahiro, Izumi, Kiyoshi, Sanz-Cruzado Puig, Javier ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7829-5174, Mccreadie, Richard
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2751-2087 and Ounis, Iadh
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4701-3223
(2024)
FinPersona: An LLM-Driven Conversational Agent for Personalized Financial Advising.
In: 47th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2025), Lucca, Italy, 06-10 Apr 2025,
(Accepted for Publication)
Lee, Youngbin, Kim, Yejin, Sanz-Cruzado Puig, Javier ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7829-5174, Mccreadie, Richard
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2751-2087 and Lee, Yongjae
(2024)
Stock Recommendations for Individual Investors: A Temporal Graph Network Approach with Mean-Variance Efficient Sampling.
In: 5th ACM Conference on AI in Finance (ICAIF 2024), Brooklyn, NY, USA, 14-17 November 2024,
(Accepted for Publication)
Guo, Lubingzhi, Sanz-Cruzado Puig, Javier ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7829-5174 and Mccreadie, Richard
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2751-2087
(2024)
University of Glasgow at the FinLLM Challenge Task: Adapting Llama for Financial News Abstractive Summarization.
Joint Workshop of the 8th Financial Technology and Natural Language Processing (FinNLP) and the 1st Agent AI for Scenario Planning (AgentScen), Jeju, Korea, 3 Aug 2024.
(Accepted for Publication)
Guo, Lubingzhi, Sanz-Cruzado, Javier ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7829-5174 and Mccreadie, Richard
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2751-2087
(2024)
Comparing the Impact of Financial Knowledge Graphs from Financial Reports and Wikidata in Asset Recommendation.
IJCAI-24 Workshop on Recommender Systems in Finance (Fin-RecSys), Jeju, Republic of Korea, 4 August 2024.
Lee, Youngbin, Kim, Yeyin, Sanz-Cruzado, Javier ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7829-5174, Mccreadie, Richard
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2751-2087 and Lee, Yongjae
(2024)
Stock Recommendations for Individual Investors: A Temporal Graph Network Approach with Diversification-Enhancing Contrastive Learning.
IJCAI-24 Workshop on Recommender Systems in Finance (Fin-RecSys), Jeju, Republic of Korea, 4 August 2024.
Sanz-Cruzado, Javier ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7829-5174, Droukas, Nikolaos and Mccreadie, Richard
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2751-2087
(2024)
FAR-Trans: An Investment Dataset for Financial Asset Recommendation.
IJCAI-24 Workshop on Recommender Systems in Finance (Fin-RecSys), Jeju, Republic of Korea, 4 August 2024.
2023
Sanz-Cruzado, Javier ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7829-5174, Richards, Edward and McCreadie, Richard
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2751-2087
(2023)
FAR-AI: A Modular Platform for Investment Recommendation in the Financial Domain.
In: 46th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR2024), Glasgow, Scotland, 24-28 Mar 2024,
(Accepted for Publication)
McCreadie, Richard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2751-2087 and Sanz-Cruzado Puig, Javier
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7829-5174
(2023)
Personalized Investment Recommendations for Retail Customers.
Project Report.
University of Glasgow, UK.
2022
Sanz-Cruzado, Javier ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7829-5174, Mccreadie, Richard
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2751-2087, Droukas, Nikolaos, Macdonald, Craig
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3143-279X and Ounis, Iadh
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4701-3223
(2022)
On Transaction-Based Metrics as a Proxy for Profitability of Financial Asset Recommendations.
3rd Workshop on Personalization & Recommender Systems in Financial Services, Seattle, WA, USA, 18-23 Sep 2022.
Sanz-Cruzado Puig, Javier ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7829-5174 and Castells, Pablo
(2022)
RELISON: A Framework for Link Recommendation in Social Networks.
In: SIGIR 2022: 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Madrid, Spain, 11-15 Jul 2022,
pp. 2992-3002.
ISBN 9781450387323
(doi: 10.1145/3477495.3531730)
2020
Sanz-Cruzado, Javier ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7829-5174, Castells, Pablo, Macdonald, Craig
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3143-279X and Ounis, Iadh
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4701-3223
(2020)
Effective contact recommendation in social networks by adaptation of information retrieval models.
Information Processing and Management, 57(5),
102285.
(doi: 10.1016/j.ipm.2020.102285)
Sanz-Cruzado Puig, Javier ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7829-5174 and Castells, Pablo
(2020)
Beyond accuracy in link prediction.
In: Boratto, L., Faralli, S., Marras, M. and Stilo, G. (eds.)
Bias and Social Aspects in Search and Recommendation.
Series: Communications in computer and information science (1245).
Springer, pp. 79-94.
ISBN 9783030524852
(doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-52485-2_9)
Sanz-Cruzado, Javier ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7829-5174, Macdonald, Craig
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3143-279X, Ounis, Iadh
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4701-3223 and Castells, Pablo
(2020)
Axiomatic Analysis of Contact Recommendation Methods in Social Networks: an IR Perspective.
In: 42nd European Conference on IR Research (ECIR 2020), Lisbon, Portugal, 14-17 Apr 2020,
pp. 175-190.
ISBN 9783030454388
(doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-45439-5_12)
2019
Sanz-Cruzado Puig, Javier ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7829-5174 and Castells, Pablo
(2019)
Information Retrieval Models for Contact Recommendation in Social Networks.
In: 1st European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2019, Cologne, Germany, 14–18 Apr 2019,
pp. 148-163.
(doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-15712-8_10)
Sanz-Cruzado Puig, Javier ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7829-5174, Castells, Pablo and López, Esther
(2019)
A Simple Multi-armed Nearest-neighbor Bandit for Interactive Recommendation.
In: RecSys '19: Thirteenth ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, Copenhagen, Denmark, 16-20 Sept 2019,
pp. 358-362.
ISBN 9781450362436
(doi: 10.1145/3298689.3347040)
2018
Sanz-Cruzado, Javier ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7829-5174 and Castells, Pablo
(2018)
Enhancing structural diversity in social networks by recommending weak ties.
In: 12th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2018), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 2-7 October 2018,
pp. 233-241.
ISBN 9781450359016
(doi: 10.1145/3240323.3240371)
Sanz-Cruzado Puig, Javier ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7829-5174, Pepa, Sofía M. and Castells, Pablo
(2018)
Structural novelty and diversity in link prediction.
In:
Companion of the The Web Conference 2018 on The Web Conference 2018 - WWW '18.
ACM, pp. 1347-1351.
ISBN 9781450356404
(doi: 10.1145/3184558.3191576)
Sanz-Cruzado Puig, Javier ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7829-5174 and Castells, Pablo
(2018)
Contact recommendations in social networks.
In: Berkovsky, S., Cantador, I. and Tikk, D. (eds.)
Collaborative Recommendations.
World Scientific, pp. 519-569.
ISBN 9789813275362
(doi: 10.1142/9789813275355_0016)
Sanz-Cruzado Puig, Javier ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7829-5174, Pepa, Sofía M. and Castells, Pablo
(2018)
Recommending Contacts in Social Networks Using Information Retrieval Models.
In: CERI '18: 5th Spanish Conference in Information Retrieval, Zaragoza, Spain, 26-27 June 2018,
pp. 1-8.
ISBN 9781450365437
(doi: 10.1145/3230599.3230619)
Articles
Sanz-Cruzado, Javier ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7829-5174, Castells, Pablo, Macdonald, Craig
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3143-279X and Ounis, Iadh
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4701-3223
(2020)
Effective contact recommendation in social networks by adaptation of information retrieval models.
Information Processing and Management, 57(5),
102285.
(doi: 10.1016/j.ipm.2020.102285)
Book Sections
Sanz-Cruzado Puig, Javier ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7829-5174 and Castells, Pablo
(2020)
Beyond accuracy in link prediction.
In: Boratto, L., Faralli, S., Marras, M. and Stilo, G. (eds.)
Bias and Social Aspects in Search and Recommendation.
Series: Communications in computer and information science (1245).
Springer, pp. 79-94.
ISBN 9783030524852
(doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-52485-2_9)
Sanz-Cruzado Puig, Javier ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7829-5174, Pepa, Sofía M. and Castells, Pablo
(2018)
Structural novelty and diversity in link prediction.
In:
Companion of the The Web Conference 2018 on The Web Conference 2018 - WWW '18.
ACM, pp. 1347-1351.
ISBN 9781450356404
(doi: 10.1145/3184558.3191576)
Sanz-Cruzado Puig, Javier ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7829-5174 and Castells, Pablo
(2018)
Contact recommendations in social networks.
In: Berkovsky, S., Cantador, I. and Tikk, D. (eds.)
Collaborative Recommendations.
World Scientific, pp. 519-569.
ISBN 9789813275362
(doi: 10.1142/9789813275355_0016)
Research Reports or Papers
McCreadie, Richard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2751-2087 and Sanz-Cruzado Puig, Javier
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7829-5174
(2023)
Personalized Investment Recommendations for Retail Customers.
Project Report.
University of Glasgow, UK.
Conference or Workshop Item
Guo, Lubingzhi, Sanz-Cruzado Puig, Javier ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7829-5174 and Mccreadie, Richard
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2751-2087
(2024)
University of Glasgow at the FinLLM Challenge Task: Adapting Llama for Financial News Abstractive Summarization.
Joint Workshop of the 8th Financial Technology and Natural Language Processing (FinNLP) and the 1st Agent AI for Scenario Planning (AgentScen), Jeju, Korea, 3 Aug 2024.
(Accepted for Publication)
Guo, Lubingzhi, Sanz-Cruzado, Javier ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7829-5174 and Mccreadie, Richard
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2751-2087
(2024)
Comparing the Impact of Financial Knowledge Graphs from Financial Reports and Wikidata in Asset Recommendation.
IJCAI-24 Workshop on Recommender Systems in Finance (Fin-RecSys), Jeju, Republic of Korea, 4 August 2024.
Lee, Youngbin, Kim, Yeyin, Sanz-Cruzado, Javier ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7829-5174, Mccreadie, Richard
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2751-2087 and Lee, Yongjae
(2024)
Stock Recommendations for Individual Investors: A Temporal Graph Network Approach with Diversification-Enhancing Contrastive Learning.
IJCAI-24 Workshop on Recommender Systems in Finance (Fin-RecSys), Jeju, Republic of Korea, 4 August 2024.
Sanz-Cruzado, Javier ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7829-5174, Droukas, Nikolaos and Mccreadie, Richard
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2751-2087
(2024)
FAR-Trans: An Investment Dataset for Financial Asset Recommendation.
IJCAI-24 Workshop on Recommender Systems in Finance (Fin-RecSys), Jeju, Republic of Korea, 4 August 2024.
Sanz-Cruzado, Javier ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7829-5174, Mccreadie, Richard
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2751-2087, Droukas, Nikolaos, Macdonald, Craig
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3143-279X and Ounis, Iadh
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4701-3223
(2022)
On Transaction-Based Metrics as a Proxy for Profitability of Financial Asset Recommendations.
3rd Workshop on Personalization & Recommender Systems in Financial Services, Seattle, WA, USA, 18-23 Sep 2022.
Conference Proceedings
Chen, Chung-Chi, Lee, Yongjae, Lopez-Lira, Alejandro, Choi, Chanyeol, Mccreadie, Richard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2751-2087 and Sanz-Cruzado, Javier
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7829-5174
(2025)
Information Retrieval in Finance: Industry and Academic Perspectives on Innovation.
In: 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2025), Padua, Italy, 13-17 July 2025,
(Accepted for Publication)
Sanz-Cruzado, Javier ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7829-5174 and Lever, Jake
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8198-2939
(2025)
Accelerating Cross-Encoders in Biomedical Entity Linking.
In: 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2025), 24th BioNLP Workshop, Vienna, Austria, 1 Aug 2025,
(Accepted for Publication)
Guo, Lubingzhi, Sanz-Cruzado, Javier ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7829-5174 and Mccreadie, Richard
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2751-2087
(2025)
Evaluating Knowledge Graph Sources for Non-Personalized Financial Asset Recommendation: 10K Reports vs. Wikidata.
In: The Second Workshop on Knowledge-Enhanced Information Retrieval (KEIR @ ECIR 2025), Lucca, Italy, 10 Apr 2025,
(Accepted for Publication)
Takayanagi, Takehiro, Izumi, Kiyoshi, Sanz-Cruzado, Javier ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7829-5174, McCreadie, Richard
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2751-2087 and Ounis, Iadh
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4701-3223
(2025)
Are Generative AI Agents Effective Personalized Financial Advisors?
In: 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2025), Padua, Italy, 13-17 July 2025,
(Accepted for Publication)
Sánchez, Pablo, Sanz-Cruzado Puig, Javier ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7829-5174 and Bellogin, Alejandro
(2024)
Improving Novelty and Diversity of Nearest-Neighbors Recommendation by Exploiting Dissimilarities.
In: 47th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2025), Lucca, Italy, 06-10 Apr 2025,
(Accepted for Publication)
Takayanagi, Takehiro, Suzuki, Masahiro, Izumi, Kiyoshi, Sanz-Cruzado Puig, Javier ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7829-5174, Mccreadie, Richard
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2751-2087 and Ounis, Iadh
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4701-3223
(2024)
FinPersona: An LLM-Driven Conversational Agent for Personalized Financial Advising.
In: 47th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2025), Lucca, Italy, 06-10 Apr 2025,
(Accepted for Publication)
Lee, Youngbin, Kim, Yejin, Sanz-Cruzado Puig, Javier ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7829-5174, Mccreadie, Richard
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2751-2087 and Lee, Yongjae
(2024)
Stock Recommendations for Individual Investors: A Temporal Graph Network Approach with Mean-Variance Efficient Sampling.
In: 5th ACM Conference on AI in Finance (ICAIF 2024), Brooklyn, NY, USA, 14-17 November 2024,
(Accepted for Publication)
Sanz-Cruzado, Javier ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7829-5174, Richards, Edward and McCreadie, Richard
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2751-2087
(2023)
FAR-AI: A Modular Platform for Investment Recommendation in the Financial Domain.
In: 46th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR2024), Glasgow, Scotland, 24-28 Mar 2024,
(Accepted for Publication)
Sanz-Cruzado Puig, Javier ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7829-5174 and Castells, Pablo
(2022)
RELISON: A Framework for Link Recommendation in Social Networks.
In: SIGIR 2022: 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Madrid, Spain, 11-15 Jul 2022,
pp. 2992-3002.
ISBN 9781450387323
(doi: 10.1145/3477495.3531730)
Sanz-Cruzado, Javier ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7829-5174, Macdonald, Craig
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3143-279X, Ounis, Iadh
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4701-3223 and Castells, Pablo
(2020)
Axiomatic Analysis of Contact Recommendation Methods in Social Networks: an IR Perspective.
In: 42nd European Conference on IR Research (ECIR 2020), Lisbon, Portugal, 14-17 Apr 2020,
pp. 175-190.
ISBN 9783030454388
(doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-45439-5_12)
Sanz-Cruzado Puig, Javier ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7829-5174 and Castells, Pablo
(2019)
Information Retrieval Models for Contact Recommendation in Social Networks.
In: 1st European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2019, Cologne, Germany, 14–18 Apr 2019,
pp. 148-163.
(doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-15712-8_10)
Sanz-Cruzado Puig, Javier ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7829-5174, Castells, Pablo and López, Esther
(2019)
A Simple Multi-armed Nearest-neighbor Bandit for Interactive Recommendation.
In: RecSys '19: Thirteenth ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, Copenhagen, Denmark, 16-20 Sept 2019,
pp. 358-362.
ISBN 9781450362436
(doi: 10.1145/3298689.3347040)
Sanz-Cruzado, Javier ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7829-5174 and Castells, Pablo
(2018)
Enhancing structural diversity in social networks by recommending weak ties.
In: 12th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2018), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 2-7 October 2018,
pp. 233-241.
ISBN 9781450359016
(doi: 10.1145/3240323.3240371)
Sanz-Cruzado Puig, Javier ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7829-5174, Pepa, Sofía M. and Castells, Pablo
(2018)
Recommending Contacts in Social Networks Using Information Retrieval Models.
In: CERI '18: 5th Spanish Conference in Information Retrieval, Zaragoza, Spain, 26-27 June 2018,
pp. 1-8.
ISBN 9781450365437
(doi: 10.1145/3230599.3230619)
Research datasets
2024
Sanz-Cruzado Puig, J. , Droukas, N. and Mccreadie, R. (2024) FAR-Trans: An Investment Dataset for Financial Asset Recommendation. [Data Collection]