Won Best Paper Award in ACM CIKM (2011), Best Student Paper Award in ACM SIGIR (2012), Best Full Paper Runner-up Award in ACM CIKM (2017), Best Paper Award in ACM WSDM (2022), and Best Paper Award in EMNLP (2024). National Second Prize for Technological Invention (2021), National Second Prize for Scientific and Technological Progress (2013), First Prize of the China Institute of Electronics Science and Technology Progress Award (2024), and more.
Research Experience
He is the director of the CAS key lab of network data science and technology, a professor at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, and a PI at the Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence.
Education
Received B.E. in Computer Science and Technology from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2004, and Ph.D. in Computer Software and Theory from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2009.
Background
Professor at the Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence PI, and Lenovo Young Scientist. His research interests include web search and data mining, query representation and understanding, learning to rank, and text modeling. Currently, his focus is on neural models for information retrieval (Neural IR) and natural language understanding.
Miscellany
Co-organized several academic events such as the First Workshop on Robust Information Retrieval at SIGIR 2025 and a tutorial on Robust Information Retrieval at WSDM 2025.