Jiaxin Mao
Scholar

Jiaxin Mao

Google Scholar ID: DDXcKKcAAAAJ
Renmin University of China
Information RetrievalUser Behavior AnalysisData Mining and Machine Learning
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
3,388
 
H-index
31
 
i10-index
76
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
15
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Paper 'Scaling Laws For Dense Retrieval' won Best Paper Award at SIGIR 2024 (July 2024).
  • Paper 'CoSearchAgent: A Lightweight Collaborative Search Agent with Large Language Models' was nominated for Best Short Paper Award at SIGIR 2024 (July 2024).
  • Paper 'Learning Discrete Representations via Constrained Clustering for Effective and Efficient Dense Retrieval' won Best Paper Award at WSDM 2022 (February 2022).
  • Paper 'Models Versus Satisfaction: Towards a Better Understanding of Evaluation Metrics' received Best Paper Honorable Mention at SIGIR 2020 (July 2020).
  • Paper 'Social Influence Analysis for Microblog User based on User Behavior' received Chinese Journal of Computers Best Paper Award (2014–2018) (October 2019).
  • Paper 'Investigating the Reliability of Click Models' received Best Short Paper Honorable Mention at ICTIR 2019 (October 2019).
  • Awarded 2018 Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award by Chinese Information Processing Society of China (CIPSC).
  • Serving as PC Co-Chair for SIGIR-AP 2024.
  • Serving as PhD Symposium Co-Chair for CIKM 2024.
  • Delivered tutorials on 'Explainable Recommendation and Search' and 'Unbiased Learning to Rank: Theory and Practice' at SIGIR, The Web Conference, and CIKM between 2018 and 2019.
Background
  • Currently a pre-tenure Associate Professor at the Gaoling School of Artificial Intelligence, Renmin University of China.
  • Research focuses on Information Retrieval, Web Search, and Applied Machine Learning.
  • Particularly interested in user interactions with massive web information, with emphasis on user behavior analysis in search engines, recommender systems, and AI chatbots.
  • Recently exploring effective and efficient dense retrieval models for ad hoc search.
  • Has served as ACM SIGIR Student Affairs Co-Chair since 2018 and as ACM SIGIR Student Liaison during 2017–2018.
  • Regular reviewer and SPC/PC member for venues including TOIS, TKDE, JASIST, SIGIR, WWW, WSDM, AAAI, CIKM, EMNLP-IJCNLP, ECIR, NLPCC, and CCIR.
Miscellany
  • Email: maojiaxin AT {gmail.com, ruc.edu.cn}
  • Official Chinese Homepage: https://gsai.ruc.edu.cn/maojiaxin
  • Twitter: maojiaxin
  • Weibo: defaultstr9
  • Google Scholar: Jiaxin Mao
  • ACM DL Profile: Jiaxin Mao