Work Experience

2021.10 - Present: Senior Research Scientist at Bloomberg AI, London, UK
2020.03 - 2021.09: Research Scientist at Bloomberg AI, London, UK
2019.07 - 2020.02: Senior Research Fellow at University of Stavanger, Stavanger, Norway
2019.02 - 2019.05: Visiting Scholar at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA
2018.09 - 2018.12: Research Scientist Intern of AI group at Bloomberg, London, UK

Teaching and Supervision

Semester 2, 2020/2021: Thesis sensor, UiS
Semester 1, 2020/2021: Guest lecturer, Information Retrieval and Text Mining course, UiS
Semester 1, 2019/2020: Guest lecturer, Information Retrieval and Text Mining course, UiS
Semester 2, 2017/2018: Advisor: master thesis on Table Embeddings, UiS
Semester 2, 2017/2018: Advisor: master thesis on NLP with Tables, UiS
Semester 2, 2017/2018: Teaching assistant, Web Programming course, UiS
Semester 1, 2017/2018: Co-advisor: master project course on Smart Table Demo, UiS
Semester 2, 2016/2017: Guest lecturer, Web Programming course, UiS
Semester 2, 2015/2016: Teaching assistant, Distributed System course, UiS
Semester 2, 2014/2015: Co-advisor: bachelor thesis on Heterogeneous Wireless Networks, NJUPT

Grants and Awards

2019: Mobility Scholarship of UiS (54K nok, CMU visit)
2018: Project Plogen (50K nok, Prototype development for FAETE project)
2017 - 2019: SIGIR 2017, 2018 and 2019 student travel grant (5650 US $)
2014 - 2016: Quota Scheme Scholarship of Norway (~200K nok)
2013 - 2014: National Scholarship for Graduate Students of China (20K CNY)
2012 - 2013: Nandu Enterprise Outstanding Graduate Scholarship
2011 - 2012: Best Student Model of NJUPT, Top 1/320
2009 - 2014: NJUPT scholarship for Undergraduates and Graduates, received annually

Talks

2023.07.25: "Towards Explainable Conversational Recommender Systems" was presented at SIGIR 2023, Taipei.
2022.07.13: "Analyzing and Simulating User Utterance Reformulation in Conversational Recommender Systems" was presented at SIGIR 2022, Madrid, Spain.
2021.10.08: Lightning talk on user satisfaction simulation at SCAI.
2021.08.03: Our paper was presented at ACL 2021, see Tech at Bloomberg blog for more details. 2021.07.14: Two demos were presented at SIGIR 2021. The work has also been discussed at the Tech at Bloomberg blog.
2020.10.21: “Generating Categories for Sets of Entities” was presented at CIKM 2020.
2020.08.27: “Evaluating Conversational Recommender Systems via User Simulation” was presented at KDD 2020.
2020.04.23: An online presentation on “Novel Entity Discovery from Web Tables” at WWW 2020. The work has also been discussed at the Tech at Bloomberg blog.
2019.12.20: I was invited to give a talk on my PhD work at IO data, Sandess, Norway.
2019.10.04: Oral presentation on “Auto-completion for Data Cells in Relational Tables” at CIKM 2019, Beijing, China.
2018.07: Three presentations at SIGIR 2018, Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A.
2018.04: Oral presentation on “Ad Hoc Table Retrieval using Semantic Similarity” at WWW 2018, Leon, France.
2017.08: Oral presentation on “EntiTables: Smart Assistance for Entity-Focused Tables” at SIGIR 2017, Tokyo, Japan.
2017.07: I attended ASSIA’17 summer school at Kyoto, Japan and presented “EntiTables: Smart Assistance for Entity-Focused Tables”.
2017.04: I presented “Design Patterns for Fusion-Based Object Retrieval” at ECIR 2017, Aberdeen, Scotland.

Tutorials and Workshops

2021.07.15: Co-organizer of the Sim4IR workshop at SIGIR 2021.
2019.07.21: Me and Prof. Krisztian Balog gave a tutorial on Web Table Extraction, Retrieval and Augmentation (Slides) at SIGIR 2019, Paris, France.

Professional Services

Senior PC of ECIR 2023-2024
PC Member of WWW 2022-2024
PC Member of CHIIR 2022
PC Member of SIGIR 2019-2024
PC Member of CIKM 2021-2023
PC Member of SIGKDD 2021
PC Member of WSDM 2021-2024
Area Chair of NAACL 2024
PC Member of ACM TOIS 2020-2021
PC Member of SDW Workshop 2019
PC Member of ECIR 2019
PC Member of JWS Special Issue
PC Member of TRL workshop at NeurIPS 2022-2023
Tutorials PC Chair of ECIR 2022
Co-chair of Sim4IR workshop at SIGIR 2021
Area Chair of 2021-2022/2022-2023 Bloomberg Data Science Ph.D. Fellowship
PC Member of Forum of Information Retrieval Evaluation 2023
Reviewer of ACL rolling review 2022
Reviewer of Journal of Web Semantics 2022
Sub-reviewer of WWW 2021
Sub-reviewer of EACL 2021
Sub-reviewer of WSDM 2020