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

2025.11.15: Co-organizer of the FinDDR Challenge (Financial Document Deep Research Grand Challenge) at ICAIF 2025, Singapore.
2025.11.14: Co-organizer of the ProActLLM (Proactive Conversational Information Seeking with Large Language Models) workshop at CIKM 2025, Coex, Seoul, South Korea.
2025.07.17: Co-organizer of the second FinIR (Financial Information Retrieval in the Era of Generative AI) workshop at SIGIR 2025, Padova, Italy.
2025.07.10: I gave a tutorial on "Building IR Systems with GenAI in Industry" at ESSIR 2025 summer school, Wolverhamption, UK.
2021.07.15: Co-organizer of the Sim4IR (User Simulation for Information Retrieval) workshop at SIGIR 2021, online.
2019.07.21: Prof. Krisztian Balog and I gave a tutorial on "Web Table Extraction, Retrieval and Augmentation" (Slides) at SIGIR 2019, Paris, France.

Professional Services

Senior PC of SIGIR 2026
Senior PC of WWW 2025-2026
Senior PC of ECIR 2023-2026
Area Chair of ACL rolling review 2024-2026
Area Chair of Bloomberg Data Science Ph.D. Fellowship 2021-2024
Tutorials PC Chair of ECIR 2022
PC Member of SIGIR 2019-2025
PC Member of WWW 2022-2024
PC Member of CIKM 2021-2024
PC Member of WSDM 2021-2025
PC Member of TRL workshop at NeurIPS 2022-2023
PC Member of Forum of Information Retrieval Evaluation 2023
PC Member of CHIIR 2022
PC Member of SIGKDD 2021
PC Member of ACM TOIS 2020-2021
PC Member of JWS Special Issue
PC Member of SDW Workshop 2019
PC Member of ECIR 2019
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