Hongning Wang
Scholar

Hongning Wang

Google Scholar ID: qkdvKNoAAAAJ
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University
Machine LearningInformation RetrievalLarge Language Models
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
6,061
 
H-index
39
 
i10-index
111
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
38
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • 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