August 2025: One journal paper about conversational recommendation in my team has been accepted at Information Fusion; May 2025: One ICCV paper and one journal paper (IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology) in my team have been accepted; April 2025: Three SIGIR papers about conversational systems in my team have been accepted; March 2025: We got the first position in the recommendation track of the AgentSociety Challenge in TheWebConf (WWW) 2025; December 2024: One AAAI paper and one WIREs Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery journal paper are accepted; August 2024: One CIKM paper and one TMM paper are accepted; July 2024: One TOIS paper 'Knowledge-Enhanced Conversational Recommendation via Transformer-based Sequential Modelling' and one ECCV paper 'Region-aware Distribution Contrast: A Novel Approach to Multi-Task Partially Supervised Learning' are accepted; July 2023: Participate in SIGIR 2023 online and give a presentation on the paper 'Learning to Ask: Conversational Product Search via Representation Learning'; November 2022: Our paper 'Asking Clarifying Questions: to Benefit or to Disturb Users in Web Search?' has been accepted by Information Processing and Management (IPM); October 2022: Participate in Information Processing and Management Conference 2022 and give an presentation on the paper 'Asking Clarifying Questions: to Benefit or to Disturb Users in Web Search?'.
Research Experience
2023/06 - present: Professor at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China; 2021/11 - 2023/05: Research Fellow at Nanyang Technological University, advisors: Prof. Cheng Long and Prof. Aixin Sun; 2021/07 - 2021/11: Postdoc researcher at the University of Amsterdam, advisor: Prof. Evangelos Kanoulas; 2021/04 - 2021/06: Visiting scholar at York University, Toronto, Canada, advisor: Prof. Jimmy Xiangji Huang.
Education
2017/10 - 2021/09: University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, supervised by Prof. Evangelos Kanoulas and Prof. Maarten de Rijke; 2014/09 - 2017/07: Chongqing University, China; 2010/09 - 2014/07: Chongqing University, China.
Background
Research interests include Information Retrieval, Natural Language Processing, Recommender Systems, and Multimedia. Born in Hengyang, Hunan, China.
Miscellany
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