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Yujia Zhou

PhD student at Renmin University of China

About Me

I am a final year Ph.D. student advised by Prof. Zhicheng Dou at the Gaoling School of Artificial Intelligence, Renmin University of China. My research mainly focuses on Information Retrieval and Natural Language Processing. Currently, I’m working on applying language models on IR problems including search results personalization, generative document retrieval, and retrieval-augmented generation.

Education

  • Sep. 2019 - present. Ph.D. student, Gaoling School of Artificial Intelligence, Renmin University of China.
  • Sep. 2015 - Jul. 2019. B.S., School of Information, Renmin University of China.

Publications

Honors and Rewards

  • Global Top40 of Baidu Scholarship 2022
  • Microsoft Research Asia Fellowship Nomination Award 2022
  • National scholarship for PhD students 2022
  • National scholarship for PhD students 2020
  • Innovative Talents Cultivation Funded Programs of Renmin University of China 2020
  • Best Student Paper Award in CCIR 2018

Experience

  • Oct. 2022 - Mar 2023. Visiting student, NExT++, National University of Singapore.
  • Dec. 2021 - Present. Intership, Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence.
  • Jun. 2020 - Apr. 2021. Intership, WXG, Tencent.
  • May 2018 - Present. Student, BDAI Lab, Gaoling School of Artificial Intelligence.

Academic Service

  • Journal Reviewer: TALLIP
  • PC Member: SIGIR, SIGKDD, TheWebConf, WSDM