Ruqing Zhang (张儒清)

I am currently an Associate Professor at Institute of Computing Technology (ICT), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). I received my Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, under the supervision of Academician Guojie Li and Prof. Jiafeng Guo, in 2019. Before that, I received my B.S. degree from Department of Computer Science, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications in 2014. From Nov. 2022 to Nov. 2023, I visited the IRLab at University of Amsterdam, where I worked with Prof. Maarten de Rijke.

My research area is information retrieval (IR), especially how to design generative models for information retrieval, how to improve the robustness of ranking models, and how to make LLMs trustworthy with retrieval. I have authored more than 60 referred publications at well-known international journals and conferences, e.g., ACM TOIS, SIGIR, WWW, KDD, NeurIPS, CIKM, WSDM, ACL, EMNLP etc.

Workshops

• I co-organized The Second Workshop on Generative Information Retrieval (Gen-IR) at SIGIR 2024.
• I co-organized The First Workshop on Generative Information Retrieval (Gen-IR) at SIGIR 2023. The final report on the workshop is available here.

Tutorials

• I will co-organize a tutorial on "Robust Information Retrieval" at WSDM 2025. Looking forward to seeing you in Hannover, Germany.
• I co-organized the tutorial on "Robust Information Retrieval" at SIGIR 2024. The survey on robust information retrieval is available here.
• I co-organized the tutorial on "Recent Advances in Generative Information Retrieval" at SIGIR-AP 2023, ECIR 2024, The Web Conference 2024 and SIGIR 2024.

Hornors and Awards

• 2024, EMNLP Best Paper Award
• 2024, Youth Innovation Promotion Association, CAS
• 2022, Academic New Star in Institute of Computing Technology, CAS
• 2021, Excellect Researcher in Institute of Computing Technology, CAS
• 2020, China Computer Federation (CCF) Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award Nomination
• 2019, President Award of Chinese Academy of Sciences
• 2018, Special Award of the Director of the Institute of Computing Technology, CAS
• 2018, National Scholarship for Doctoral Students
• 2018, Excellent Paper Award in Chinese Conference of Information Retrieval (CCIR 2018)

Program Committee

• 2024: SIGIR, WSDM, CIKM, EMNLP, ACL
• 2023: SIGIR, WSDM, CIKM, EMNLP, ACL, CVPR, ECIR
• 2022: SIGIR, CIKM, EMNLP, ECIR, AAAI
• 2021: SIGIR, CIKM, EMNLP, AAAI, ACL, NAACL-HLT
• 2020: SIGIR, CIKM, AAAI, ACL, AACL-ICNLP, COLING