Jiaxin Mao

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 people interact with the huge amount of Web information, he currently focuses on User Behavior Analysis for Web Search Engines. He has published more than 50 papers in top-tier conferences and journals in IR, including SIGIR, TOIS, WWW, WSDM, CIKM, IJCAI, and ECIR. He was a recipient of the Best Full Paper Honorable Mention Award of SIGIR 2020, the Chinese Journal of Computers Best Paper Award, the Best Short Paper Honorable Mention Award of ICTIR 2019, and the Best Short Paper Honourable Mention Award of SIGIR 2018. He is the ACM SIGIR Student Affairs Co-Chair since 2018 and he served as an ACM SIGIR Student Liaison during 2017-2018. He also served as a reviewer and PC member for TOIS, TKDE, JASIST, SIGIR, WWW, WSDM, AAAI, CIKM, EMNLP-IJCNLP, ECIR, NLPCC, and CCIR.