Professor Ji-Rong Wen is the executive dean of Gaoling School of Artificial Intelligence at Renmin University of China (RUC). He has years of experience working in big data and artificial intelligence fields, and publishing extensively in prestigious international conferences and journals. He is the PC Chair of SIGIR 2020 and the Associate Editor of ACM TOIS and IEEE TKDE. He worked at Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) for 14 years and once was a senior researcher and the group manager of the Web S...
Zhicheng Dou is currently a professor at Renmin University of China. He received his bachelor and PhD degrees in computer science from the Nankai University in 2003 and 2008, respectively. He worked at Microsoft Research Asia as a researcher from July 2008 to September 2014. Zhicheng Dou’s research interests are Information Retrieval, Natural Language Processing, and Large Scale Web Data Analysis. He is particularly interested in exploring effective approaches for web search ranking, especially ...
Zhewei Wei received his Ph.D. of Computer Science and Engineering from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He did postdoctoral research in Aarhus University from 2012 to 2014, and joined Renmin University of China in 2014.
Hao Sun is a Full Professor with Tenure in the Gaoling School of Artificial Intelligence at Renmin University of China (RUC). He received his Ph.D. in Engineering Mechanics from Columbia University in 2014 and did his Postdoc training at MIT during 2014-2017. He was a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh (2017-2018) and at Northeastern University (2018-2021) before joining RUC. His research interests lie in the fundamental theory algorithms and interdisciplinary appli...
Jun Xu is a Professor at Gaoling School of Artificial Intelligence, Renmin University of China. He received his B.E. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Nankai University, in 2001 and 2006, respectively. He worked as an associate researcher, researcher, and professor at Microsoft Research Asia, Huawei Noah's Ark Lab, and Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He joined Renmin University of China in Sep. 2018. His research interests focus on applying machine learning to in...
Xin Zhao received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Peking University in 2014. His research interests include data mining, natural language processing and information retrieval in general. The main goal is to study how to organize, analyze and mine user generated data for improving the service of real-world applications.
Zhiwu Lu received the Master of Science degree in applied mathematics from Peking University in 2005, and the PhD degree in computer science from City University of Hong Kong in 2011. He has published over 90 papers in international journals and conference proceedings including TPAMI, IJCV, TIP, ICML, NeurIPS, ICLR, CVPR, ICCV, and ECCV.
Zhao Cao is a Professor at the Gaoling School of Artificial Intelligence, Renmin University of China (RUC). He received his Bachelor's degree (2004) and Ph.D. degree (2010) from Beijing Institute of Technology. He joined RUC in May 2025. Previously, he served as Director of Huawei's Poisson Lab, Chief Architect of EI (Enterprise Intelligence) Service & Product Department at Huawei Cloud (leading architecture design for large models, big data, and Ascend Cloud technologies), Chair of Huawei’s Sea...
Dr. Song Ruihua, National Distinguished Professor of High-level Talents, is a tenured associate professor at Gaoling School of Artificial Intelligence, Renmin University of China. She has been Lead Researcher of Microsoft Research Asia and Chief Scientist of Microsoft XiaoIce. Her algorithm completed the first collection of AI-created poems in human history, "The Sunlight Loses the Glass Window", on May 2017. From 2021 to 2022, as an academic leader, she released Wenlan image-text alignment mode...
Dr. Qi is now a tenured Associate Professor of Gaoling School of Artificial Intelligence, Renmin University of China. She obtained her Ph.D. degree from the Department of Management Science and Engineering, Stanford University under guidance of Professor Yinyu Ye in 2012. Dr. Qi worked at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology before she moved to Renmin University of China. Her publications have appeared in Operations Research, Mathematics of Operations Research, Algorithmica and confer...
Bing Su received the BS degree in information engineering from the Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China, in 2010, and the PhD degree in electronic engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 2016. From 2016 to 2020, he worked with the Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing. His research interests include pattern recognition, computer vision, and machine learning.
Dr. Hongteng Xu got his Ph.D. from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, in 2017. Before that, he earned his Master's and Bachelor's degrees from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2013 and Tianjin University in 2010. His research interests include artificial general intelligence (AGI) and its applications, especially optimal transport-driven machine learning, generative large model design, compression and fusion, and cutting-edge applications like AI4...
I am Yong Liu, and I am presently serving as a Tenure-Track Associate Professor in the Gaoling School of Artificial Intelligence (GSAI) at Renmin University of China (RUC). My research interest lies in the learning theory of machine learning, with a particular emphasis on generalization analysis in complex scenarios, including areas such as non-convex stochastic optimization, large-scale machine learning methods, and non-independent and identical distribution. In these research directions, I hav...
Jiaxin Mao is now a tenure-track associate professor at the Gaoling School of Artificial Intelligence, Renmin University of China. Before that, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Computer Science and Technology at Tsinghua University. He obtained a Ph.D. degree from Tsinghua University, supervised by Prof. Shaoping Ma and Prof. Yiqun Liu. His research interests lie in the area of Information Retrieval, Web Search, and Applied Machine Learning. With a wider interest in how...
Xu Chen obtained his PhD degree from Tsinghua University, China. Before joining Renmin University of China, he was a postdoc researcher at University College London, UK. In the period from March to September of 2017, he was studying at Georgia Institute of Technology, USA, as a visiting scholar. His research mainly focuses on the recommender system, reinforcement learning and causal inference. He has published about 30 papers on top-tier conferences and journals such as SIGIR、TOIS、WWW、WSDM、CIKM、...
Di Hu is tenure-track faculty at Gaoling School of Artificial Intelligence, Renmin University of China. Before that, he was previously a research scientist at Baidu Research. He obtained the PhD degree from Northwestern Polytechnical University, supervised by Xuelong Li and Feiping Nie. His research interests are mainly about machine multimodal perception and learning. He has published over 10 papers on top-tier conferences and journals in artificial intelligence, e.g., CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, AAAI et...
Chongxuan Li is an Associate Professor at the Gaoling School of Artificial Intelligence, Renmin University of China. He obtained both his Bachelor's and Ph.D. degrees from Tsinghua University. His primary research focus is on deep probabilistic learning. He has published over 40 papers in international conferences and journals in the field of machine learning, including ICML, NeurIPS, ICLR, and TPAMI. His works, such as Analytic-DPM and DPM-Solver, have been incorporated into renowned large-scal...
Wenbing Huang is now a tenure-track associate professor at Gaoling School of Artificial Intelligence (GSAI), Renmin University of China. Before joining GSAI, he worked as an assistant researcher at AIR, Tsinghua University, and senior researcher at Tencent AI Lab. His research focuses on the representation, generation, and prediction of complex systems driven by geometric deep learning. He has proposed a series of geometric deep learning approaches, with graph neural networks as representatives,...
Xiting Wang obtained her Bachelor's degree and Ph.D. from Tsinghua University and was previously a principal researcher at Microsoft Research Asia. Her research interest is explainable and trustworthy AI. She has published around 50 papers on top conferences or journals. Two of her papers were selected as the spotlight article by IEEE TVCG (one spotlight each issue). The technologies developed by Xiting have been applied in multiple products like Microsoft Bing and Microsoft News. Xiting is an a...
Xiao Zhang is a tenure-track Associate Professor and Ph.D. advisor at the Gaoling School of Artificial Intelligence, Renmin University of China, and a recipient of the Distinguished Young Scholar award. He has published over 60 papers in leading international conferences and journals, including ICML, NeurIPS, KDD, SIGIR, ICLR, AAAI, IJCAI, WWW, ACL, ICDE, and VLDB, as well as top-tier journals such as IEEE TKDE, ACM TOIS, Journal of Computer Science, and Science China: Information Sciences. His ...
Weiran Shen obtained his Bachelor's degree from the Department of Electronic Engineering and his Ph.D. from IIIS both at Tsinghua University. He was a post-doc researcher at Carnegie Mellon University from 2019 to 2020. His research interest includes multi-agent system game theory mechanism design and machine learning. He published more than 40 papers in top-tier conferences and journals in related research areas. He was PC SPC and AC members of multiple international conferences including AAAI ...
Yankai Lin received his B.E. and Ph.D. degrees from Tsinghua University in 2014 and 2019. After that, he worked as a senior researcher in Tencent WeChat, and joined Renmin University of China in 2022 as a tenure-track assistant professor. His main research interests are pretrained models and natural language processing. He has published more than 40 papers in international conferences on natural language processing and artificial intelligence such as ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, AAAI, IJCAI, NeurIPS, etc....
Dr. Xiao Zhou received her M.Phil. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Cambridge supervised by Professor Cecilia Mascolo a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng). She subsequently conducted postdoctoral research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) before joining the Gaoling School of Artificial Intelligence Renmin University of China in 2021. She is a Microsoft StarTrack Scholar and a Distinguished Young Scholar of Renmin University. Her research focuses on spatio...
Yanbiao Ma received his B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Xidian University in 2020 and 2025, respectively. His research focuses on multimodal large models for visual understanding, unified paradigms across modalities, long-tailed learning, and federated learning. He has published over 10 papers as the first author in top-tier journals and conferences in artificial intelligence, including IEEE TPAMI, IJCV, CVPR, and ICLR. He has won six international competitions organized by IGARSS, CVPR, and ICCV. ...
Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of Interdisciplinary Studies/Gaoling School of AI, Renmin University of China, under the supervision of Professor Ji-rong Wen. Earned a Bachelor's degree in Vehicle Engineering from Tsinghua University in 2014, a Master of Laws from Renmin University of China in 2017, a Master of Laws from Harvard University in 2020, and a Doctor of Law from Renmin University of China in 2022. Research focuses on intellectual property law, digital law, and legal artificial intel...
Yutao Zhu received his Bachelor's and Master's degrees from Renmin University of China in 2016 and 2019, respectively, and earned his Ph.D. from the University of Montreal in 2023. After completing his Ph.D., he joined Renmin University of China as a postdoctoral researcher. His main research interests include large language models, information retrieval, and dialogue systems. During his Ph.D. studies, he was awarded the Google PhD Fellowship for the University of Montreal and received multiple ...
Rui Zhang obtained a B.S. degree from East China Normal University in 2019 and a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in 2024. After completing his doctorate, he joined Renmin University of China to engage in postdoctoral research. His main research interests include physics-driven deep learning and interpretable neural networks. During his doctoral studies, he received honors such as AMSS Special Prize of President Scholarship an...
I received my Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence from Gaoling School of Artificial Intelligence at Renmin University of China in June 2024, under the supervision of Prof. Zhewei Wei. Before that, I received my master’s degree of engineering from Beijing Technology and Business University in June 2020, under the supervision of Prof. Haisheng Li. I was a visiting scientist from March 2023 to September 2023 in CSIRO, DATA61, advised by Prof. Jiajun Liu.
I obtained my Bachelor's degree from Nanjing University in 2016, and my Master's and Ph.D. degrees from Central China Normal University in 2020 and 2024, respectively. After completing my Ph.D., I joined Renmin University of China as a postdoctoral researcher. My primary research interests are artificial intelligence and human-machine collaboration, and the application of large language models in education. My work has been published in conferences and journals such as AAAI, TMM, and ESWA.
Minjie Cheng received her Ph.D. degree in Artificial Intelligence from the Gaoling School of Artificial Intelligence, Renmin University of China in June 2025. After completing her doctoral studies, she joined Renmin University of China as a postdoctoral researcher. Her primary research interests include computational optimal transport, neural network design, and AI4Science. Her key works have been published in journals and conferences such as TPAMI, WWW, and AAAI.