Biography
I am currently an AI Researcher at Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab in Singapore. Prior to joining Huawei, I studied my PhD at the Terrier Team within the Glasgow Information Retrieval Group, University of Glasgow, supervised by Professor Craig Macdonald and Professor Iadh Ounis. My PhD research was mainly about Multi-Modal Conversational Recommendation. My PhD study was fully funded by the Closed Loop Data Science Project (EPSRC) and the Computing Science Excellence Bursary.
My recent research interest focuses on applications with Large Language Models (LLMs), including:
- Truthful LLMs (w/ Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) or Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG))
- LLM Powered Autonomous Agents
News
[26/06/2023] ‘Goal-Oriented Multi-Modal Interactive Recommendation with Verbal and Non-Verbal Relevance Feedback’ - full paper accepted at RecSys 2023, with @craig_macdonald and @iadh.
[28/06/2022] ‘Multi-Modal Dialog State Tracking for Interactive Fashion Recommendation’ - full paper accepted at RecSys 2022, with @craig_macdonald and @iadh.
[28/04/2022] ‘Multimodal Conversational Fashion Recommendation with Positive and Negative Natural-Language Feedback’ - full paper accepted at CUI 2022, with @craig_macdonald and @iadh.
[07/07/2021] ‘Partially Observable Reinforcement Learning for Dialog-based Interactive Recommendation’ - full paper accepted at RecSys 2021, with @craig_macdonald and @iadh.
[30/06/2020] ‘A Hybrid Conditional Variational Autoencoder Model for Personalised Top-N Recommendation’ - full paper accepted at ICTIR 2020, with @craig_macdonald and @iadh.
Education
[2019-2023] University of Glasgow (UofG, QS Top 100), Glasgow, UK
- PhD in Computing Science (Research)
[2018-2019] University of Glasgow (UofG, QS Top 100), Glasgow, UK
- MSc in Data Science, Graduation with Distinction
[2013-2016] Beihang University (BUAA, Project 985), Beijing, China
- Master of Engineering in Aerospace Science and Technology
- Excellent Master’s Degree Dissertation, supervised by Professor Haixing Wang (Google Scholar)
[2009-2013] Harbin Engineering University (HEU, Project 211), Harbin, China
- Bachelor of Engineering in Flight Vehicle Propulsion Engineering
- Bachelor of Management in Business Administration (minor)
Services
- PC Member: ECIR 2024, RecSys 2023, ICTIR 2023
- Invited Journal Reviewer: TWeb
- Lab Demonstrator for Information Retrieval in 2020 and Recommender System in 2020 & 2021, at UofG.