Jun Xu

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 information retrieval and recommendation. He has published more than 80 papers and 2 monographs at top international journals and conferences, including TKDE, TOIS, JMLR, FnTIR, SIGIR, CIKM, ACL, EMNLP etc. His work on information retrieval has received the Test of Time Award Honorable mention of ACM SIGIR 2019, Best Paper Runner-up of ACM CIKM 2017, and Best Paper Award of AIRS 2010. He has served or is serving top international conferences as Senior PC members, including SIGIR, ACML, CIKM, AAAI, and top international journal of JASIST as an editorial board member, and ACM TIST as an associate editor. He has given tutorials at top conferences like SIGIR, WSDM, TheWebConf (WWW) on the topic of deep learning for semantic matching in search and recommendation.