Xinyu Ma
Scholar

Xinyu Ma

Google Scholar ID: DXYzAIkAAAAJ
Baidu
Information RetrievalNatural Language Processing
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
1,215
 
H-index
14
 
i10-index
16
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
10
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • August 2025: ReasonRank model ranked #1 on BRIGHT leaderboard
  • October 2024: Released MAIR, a massive benchmark for evaluating instructed IR models
  • December 2023: Paper 'Is ChatGPT Good at Search? Investigating Large Language Models as Re-Ranking Agent' won EMNLP 2023 Outstanding Paper Award
  • December 2022: Defended Ph.D. thesis titled 'Pre-training and Fine-tuning Methods Tailored for Information Retrieval'
  • January & April 2021: PROP model achieved #1 on MS MARCO Document Ranking leaderboard twice
  • Authored survey 'Pre-training Methods in Information Retrieval'
  • Proposed new AI search paradigm: 'Towards AI Search Paradigm'
Research Experience
  • 2023–present: Senior Software Engineer / Researcher, Search Science Team, Baidu Inc., Beijing
  • 2019–2022: Ph.D. Researcher, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • 2017–2019: M.S. Student, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • October 2021: Invited talk at Baidu NLP Group, Beijing
  • May 2021: Invited talk on 'Pretrained Models for Information Retrieval' at Ant Group’s Alipay Search Department, Beijing