# RAG Benchmarks with Nandan Thakur - Weaviate Podcast #124!

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Published: 2025-06-25T13:05:37+00:00
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## Resource

Nandan Thakur is a Ph.D. student at the University of Waterloo! Nandan has worked on many of the most impactful works in Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and Information Retrieval. His work ranges from benchmarks such as BEIR, MIRACLE, TREC, and FreshStack, to improving the training of embedding models and re-rankings, and more!

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