Jun Xu is a professor of information science at Renmin University of China with nine years of post-PhD academic experience and a long research track across industry and academia. His work bridges learning-to-rank, semantic matching, reinforcement learning, and large-scale machine learning, developed during stints at Microsoft, Huawei, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He has deep practical experience in recommendation, topic modeling, matrix factorization and user modeling, translating core IR and ML research into scalable systems. Known for algorithmic contributions such as IRSVM and AdaRank-related work, he combines rigorous academic training from Nankai University with industry-scale engineering. Based in Beijing, he continues to lead research that connects theoretical advances to real-world search and recommendation applications.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at Nankai University
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