Qingyao Ai, Assistant Professor at Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University

My research mainly focuses on Information Retrieval and Machine Learning related topics. Currently I'm working on applying machine learning techniques on IR problems including ranking optimization, document retrieval, conversational search, and more.

I got my MS/Ph.D degree from College of Information and Computer Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst, advised by Prof. W. Bruce Croft in the Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval (CIIR). And I got my bachelor degree from Dept. Computer Science & Technology, Tsinghua University.

Experience

• Tsinghua University, Tenure-track Assistant Professor. Beijing, China, Aug. 2022 - now

• University of Utah, Tenure-track Assistant Professor. Salt Lake City, UT, USA, Aug. 2019 - Jun. 2022

• University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Research Assistant in CIIR, advised by Prof. W. Bruce Croft. Amherst, MA, USA, Sept. 2014 - Jul. 2019

• Amazon Search, Data scientist Intern, mentored by Danial Hill and S. V. N. Vishwanathan, Palo Alto, CA, USA, May 2018 - Aug. 2018

• Google Research, Ph.D. Intern, mentored by Xuanhui Wang, Nadav Golbandi and Michael Bendersky, CA, USA, Jun. 2017 - Sept. 2017

• Microsoft Research, Research Intern in CLUES, mentored by Susan Dumais and Nick Craswell. Redmond, WA, USA, Jun. 2015 - Sept. 2015

• Tsinghua University, undergraduate thesis project in THUIR lab, advised by Prof. Yiqun Liu. Beijing, China, Sept. 2012 - Jun. 2014

Achievements

• Google Research Scholar Award

• PI, NSF IIS-2007907

• Research Gift from Amazon A9, 2017

• UMass CICS Accomplishments in Search & Mining Awards, 2017

• Ph.D. Qualifying Exam (Portfolio) passed with distinction, 2016

• Outstanding Bachelor Graduate of Beijing (top 1%), 2014

• Outstanding Bachelor Graduate of Tsinghua (top 10%), 2014

• Excellent Undergraduate Thesis Award (top 4), 2014

• Tsinghua Laboratory Contribution Award, Third Prize, 2014

• Tsinghua Zhong Shi-Mo Scholarship (the highest award for students in Dept. CS&T, top 1), 2012

Services

• Area Chair

  • NAACL-HLT 2021

• Senior PC Member:

  • CIKM 2020/2021

• Session Chair

  • CIKM 2019

  • ICTIR 2021

• PC Member:

  • SIGIR

  • WWW

  • CIKM

  • ACL

  • AAAI

  • EMNLP

  • ECIR

  • AIRS

  • CCL

• Journal Review:

  • TOIS

  • TPAMI

  • JMLR

  • TKDE

  • TOIT

  • IPM

  • IRJ

  • KAIS

  • JASIST