Papers accepted by multiple international conferences and journals such as ACM Multimedia 2024, TOIS 2024, ACL 2024, COLING 2024, EMNLP 2023, Transactions of ACL 2023, SIGIR 2022, AAAI 2022, etc.
Research Experience
Worked with the DIS Group at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) and Amazon, focusing on core NLP/IR problems in both industry and academia. Joined Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam as an assistant professor in August 2024.
Education
Pursued Ph.D. with the IRLab at the University of Amsterdam, supervised by Prof. dr. Maarten de Rijke and Prof. dr. Pengjie Ren.
Background
Research interests include natural language processing (dialogue systems, word embedding, parsing, summarization) and information retrieval (query understanding, recommender system, matcher embedding). Currently working as an assistant professor with the Social AI Group at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, focusing on multimodal agents for conversational AI.
Miscellany
Gave invited talks at Microsoft Research, Utrecht University, Immersive Tech Week, Sony AI, Bosch Center of Artificial Intelligence (BCAI), University College London (UCL), Search Engine Amsterdam (SEA), and more.