Won the First Prize in the Technical Innovation Category of the 2024 Qian Weichang Chinese Information Processing Science and Technology Award; received the Karen Spärck Jones (KSJ) Award 2023; awarded Copenhaver Associate Professor appointment from the School of Engineering in 2022; paper 'Variance Reduction in Gradient Exploration for Online Learning to Rank' received the Best Paper Award at SIGIR'2019; research projects have been funded multiple times by NSF IIS program.
Research Experience
Spent 9 years in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Virginia; returned to the Department of Computer Science and Technology at Tsinghua University as a tenured associate professor in September 2023.
Education
Graduated from CS@UIUC in May 2014.
Background
Research interest includes machine learning and information retrieval, with a special emphasis on sequential decision making problems. Currently an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and Technology at Tsinghua University.
Miscellany
Gave invited talks at LinkedIn, Pinterest, and others; group's algorithms are released through a GitHub site