Scholar
Zhaochun Ren
Google Scholar ID: fPcIPt0AAAAJ
Leiden University
Citations & Impact
Citations
9,316
H-index
47
i10-index
121
Publications
20
Co-authors
51
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- 3 papers accepted at ICLR 2025; 2 papers accepted at The Web Conference 2025; paper “Towards Empathetic Conversational Recommender Systems” won Best Full Paper award at ACM RecSys 2024; paper “Generative Retrieval as Multi-Vector Dense Retrieval” won Best Paper Honorable Mention at SIGIR 2024; serving as an Associate Editor of ACM Transactions on Information Systems since Sep 2024.
Research Experience
- Served as a Professor at Shandong University from 2019 to 2023; worked as a Research Scientist at JD.com from 2017 to 2023.
Education
- Earned PhD in 2016 from the University of Amsterdam, supervised by Prof. dr. Maarten de Rijke and Prof. dr. Evangelos Kanoulas; completed B.E. (2009) and M.E. (2012) at Shandong University; served as a short-term visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in 2012.
Background
- Currently an Associate Professor at Leiden University, the Netherlands. Research focuses on information retrieval and natural language processing, with a particular emphasis on conversational information-seeking, generative retrieval, recommender systems, and large language models. The overarching goal is to develop intelligent agents capable of addressing complex user requests and solving fundamental challenges in NLP and IR.
