Qingyao Ai

Qingyao Ai

Qingyao Ai
艾清遥

Associate Professor
Dept. of CS&T
Tsinghua University
Beijing, 100084
Office: FIT-1-506
Lab: FIT-1-506

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Qingyao Ai, Associate Professor at Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University

My research mainly focuses on Information Retrieval and related topics. Currently I’m working on integrating retrieval and generative AI techniques to build better information access systems and agents, including retrieval/ranking optimization, retrieval augmented generation, automatic prompt refinement, continue learning for agents, and more.

I got my MS/Ph.D degree from College of Information and Computer Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst, advised by Prof. W. Bruce Croft in the Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval (CIIR). And I got my bachelor degree from Dept. Computer Science & Technology, Tsinghua University.

Experience

  • Tsinghua University, Associate Professor at THUIR. Beijing, China, Dec. 2024 - Now
  • Tsinghua University, Assistant Professor at THUIR. Beijing, China, Aug. 2022 - Dec. 2024
  • University of Utah, Tenure-track Assistant Professor. Salt Lake City, UT, USA, Aug. 2019 - Jun. 2022
  • University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Research Assistant in CIIR, advised by Prof. W. Bruce Croft. Amherst, MA, USA, Sept. 2014 - Jul. 2019
  • Amazon Search, Data scientist Intern, mentored by Danial Hill and S. V. N. Vishwanathan, Palo Alto, CA, USA, May 2018 - Aug. 2018
  • Google Research, Ph.D. Intern, mentored by Xuanhui Wang, Nadav Golbandi and Michael Bendersky, CA, USA, Jun. 2017 - Sept. 2017
  • Microsoft Research, Research Intern in CLUES, mentored by Susan Dumais and Nick Craswell. Redmond, WA, USA, Jun. 2015 - Sept. 2015
  • Tsinghua University, undergraduate thesis project in THUIR, advised by Prof. Yiqun Liu. Beijing, China, Sept. 2012 - Jun. 2014

Achievements

  • Qian Weichang Chinese Information Processing Science and Technology Youth Innovation Award - 2024
  • Qian Weichang Chinese Information Processing Science and Technology Nature and Science Award - First Prize - 2024
  • ACM SIGIR Early Career Researcher Award - 2024
  • ACM SIGIR 2024 Best Paper Award - 2024
  • Beijing Science and Technology Award - First Prize, 2023
  • ACM SIGIR-AP 2023 Best Paper Honorable Mention, 2023
  • Google Research Scholar Award, 2021
  • UMass CICS Accomplishments in Search & Mining Awards, 2017
  • Ph.D. Qualifying Exam (Portfolio) passed with distinction, 2016
  • Outstanding Bachelor Graduate of Beijing (top 1%), 2014
  • Outstanding Bachelor Graduate of Tsinghua (top 10%), 2014
  • Excellent Undergraduate Thesis Award (top 4), 2014
  • Tsinghua Laboratory Contribution Award, Third Prize, 2014
  • Tsinghua Zhong Shi-Mo Scholarship (the highest award for students in Dept. CS&T, top 1), 2012

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