Scholar
Allen Lin
Google Scholar ID: XmjHN1AAAAAJ
Texas A&M University
Citations & Impact
Citations
104
H-index
4
i10-index
3
Publications
8
Co-authors
4
list available
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Paper 'Towards An Efficient LLM Training Paradigm for CTR Prediction' under review.
- Paper 'Cold-Start Recommendation towards the Era of Large Language Models (LLMs): A Comprehensive Survey and Roadmap' published in ACM Computing Surveys.
- Paper 'Simple Fusion of Collaborative Signals Improves LLM Recommendation' to be presented at TheWebConf (WWW) 2025 - E-commerce Workshop.
- Paper 'Federated Conversational Recommender System' published in 46th European Conference on Information Retrieval ECIR 2024.
- Paper 'End-to-End Adaptive Local Learning for Alleviating Mainstream Bias in Collaborative Filtering' published in 46th European Conference on Information Retrieval ECIR 2024.
- Paper 'Enhancing User Personalization in Conversational Recommenders' published in ACM Web Conference TheWebConf (WWW) 2023.
- Paper 'Quantifying and Mitigating Popularity Bias in Conversational Recommender Systems' published in 31st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management CIKM 2022.
- Paper 'Towards Fair Conversational Recommender Systems' published in 16th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems RecSys 2022 - FAccTRec: Workshop on Responsible Recommendation.
- Paper 'Howdy Y'all: An Alexa TaskBot' published in Alexa Prize TaskBot Challenge Proceedings 2022.
Education
- PhD student at Texas A&M University, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, advised by Prof. James Caverlee; Master's degree in Computer Science from Duke University; Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Ohio State University.
Background
- Research interests: machine learning, natural language processing, and information retrieval, with a special emphasis on AI-powered user-centered systems. Recently, his work primarily focuses on leveraging large language models and foundation models to enhance personalization of ads and recommendations.
Miscellany
- NSF/CIKM Student Author Travel Award; National Buckeye Scholarship; Ohio State University Trustees Scholarship.
