Zhiqi Huang

Ph.D. candidate

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Hi, I am a 5th-year Ph.D. candidate from Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences at University of Massachusetts Amherst. I work as a research assistant at the Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval (CIIR) under the mentorship of my advisor, Dr. James Allan. My research endeavors lie at the intersection of information retrieval, natural language processing, and machine learning (IR/NLP/ML). I work on various IR tasks, such as entity retrieval, multilingual retrieval, multimodal search and query by example, etc.

I received my master in Statistics from the University of Maryland, College Park and my bachelor in Applied Math from Sun Yat-sen University.

news

đŸ”„ActiveđŸ”„ I’m looking for full-time position. Please feel free to reach out to me if you are interested in my work (CV).
Oct 02, 2023 I’m joining Google as research intern!
Jul 24, 2023 Our paper “Hierarchical Transformer-based Query by Multiple Documents” received Best Paper Honorable Mention at ICTIR ‘23.
May 19, 2023 I defended my thesis proposal. Now, I am an ABD (All but dissertation).
Feb 16, 2023 We are the runner up of MIRACL, WSDM Cup 2023. Check our solution here.

selected publications

  1. Search Result Diversification Using Query Aspects as Bottlenecks
    Puxuan Yu , Razieh Rahimi , Zhiqi Huang, and James Allan
    In Proceedings of the 32nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management , 2023
  2. Soft Prompt Decoding for Multilingual Dense Retrieval
    Zhiqi Huang, Hansi Zeng , Hamed Zamani , and James Allan
    In Proceedings of the 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval , 2023
  3. Hierarchical Transformer-based Query by Multiple Documents
    Zhiqi Huang*, Shahrzad Naseri* , Hamed Bonab , Sheikh Muhammad Sarwar , and James Allan
    In Proceedings of the 2023 ACM SIGIR International Conference on Theory of Information Retrieval , 2023
    (*equal contribution)