About me

I am currently a fourth-year Ph.D. student at the School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, The Univesity of Queensland, Australia. I work with Prof. Guido Zuccon and A/Prof. Bevan Koopman. Prior to PhD, I got my bachelor and master’s degrees in Statistics and worked for 2.5 years in a financial technology company as a data analyst.

My research interests mainly lie in Information Retrieval, Data Privacy and Federated Learning with focusing application on Online Learning to Rank.

I am on job market this year (2024). Please send me email if you find my background suits your postition.

Publications

Honors & Awards

  • Google PhD Fellowship, 2022
  • Best Student Paper Award, ICTIR 2021 (first author)
  • SIGIR Student Travel Grant, SIGIR (2022, 2023)
  • Honorable Mention (top 20%), International Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM), 2014
  • First Prize of Academic Scholarships, Nanjing Normal University, 2014
  • Excellent Student, Nanjing Normal University, from 2012 to 2014

Academic Service

  • Reviewer: AISTATS (2023, 2024), WWW (2023, 2024, 2025), SIGIR (2024), KDD (2023), ICTIR (2023)
  • Subreviewer: SIGIR (2022)
  • Session chair of the Privacy and Cybersecurity session at CIKM (2021)
  • Student Volunteer: CIKM (2021), SIGIR (2021)

Teaching

  • Tutoring of Data Science Capstone Project (DATA7901/7902/7903) at The University of Queensland (St Lucia campus)
    • Master course
    • Semester 1 & 2, 2021
    • Supervision for Master Capstone Project on Federated Learning
  • Tutoring of Thesis Project Course (COMP7811/7861/7881/DECO7861/ENGG7813/7817/METR4911/REIT4841/4881) at The University of Queensland (St Lucia campus)
    • Honour and Master course
    • Semester 1 & 2, 2023
    • Supervision for Honour’s and Master’s Project on Robust Information Retrieval