Elected as an ACM Distinguished Scientist in 2018; served as General Chair for WWW 2025, SIGIR 2020, and WSDM 2018; held multiple roles in international conferences such as Program Committee Chair, Area Chair, and Best Paper Award Chair; served as Associate Editor and Guest Editor for several journals; authored two books and multiple book chapters; published numerous high-impact journal papers.
Research Experience
Served as a Technical Vice President at Huawei Research America, overseeing knowledge graph, question answering, and vertical search projects; worked as a Research Director at Yahoo Labs/Research from 2006 to 2016, responsible for the search relevance of Yahoo’s web search engine and vertical search engines.
Education
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Background
Founding Dean of the School of Artificial Intelligence, Jilin University, and Director of the Research & Development Affairs Office, Jilin University. Before joining academia, he was a Technical Vice President at Huawei Research America, in charge of knowledge graph, question answering, and vertical search projects. From 2006 to 2016, he was a Research Director at Yahoo Labs/Research, responsible for the search relevance of Yahoo’s web search engine and vertical search engines. His research interests include information retrieval, data mining, machine learning, natural language processing, and artificial intelligence.
Miscellany
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