Zhicheng Dou

Zhicheng Dou is currently a professor at Renmin University of China and vice dean for Gaoling School of Artificial Intelligence. He received his Ph.D. and B.S. degrees in computer science and technology from the Nankai University in 2008 and 2003, respectively. He worked at Microsoft Research Asia from July 2008 to September 2014. And since 2014, he has been a faculty member at Renmin University of China. His research interests are Agent, Information Retrieval, and Large Language Models. Recently, he is especially interested in information agents, like deep search and deep research agents. He received the Paper Award Nominations of WWW 2023 (spotlight), the Best Paper Runner-Up Award from SIGIR 2013, and the Best Paper Award from AIRS 2012. He served as the program co-chair of SIGIR 2019 (short), AIRS 2017, and NTCIR-16/17. Zhicheng Dou is not a pure research guy - besides writing papers, he also enjoys writing codes to convert cool ideas into real systems.