Qingyao Ai
Associate Professor
Beijing, China
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Top SchoolQingyao Ai is an Associate Professor at Tsinghua University specializing in Information Retrieval and Machine Learning, with eight years of research and academic experience bridging US and Chinese institutions. He earned his MS and PhD at UMass Amherst under W. Bruce Croft at CIIR and completed his BS at Tsinghua, bringing deep roots in top IR research groups. His work applies deep learning to ad-hoc retrieval, product search/recommendation, and learning-to-rank, informed by internships at Microsoft, Google, and A9 that connected academic ideas to industrial-scale search. Qingyao has held faculty positions at the University of Utah and progressed rapidly from assistant to associate professor at Tsinghua, indicating strong research impact and leadership. Colleagues note his ability to translate theoretical models into practical retrieval solutions for e-commerce and advertising systems. He combines rigorous academic training with hands-on industry experience, often pursuing cross-disciplinary projects that improve real-world search and recommendation performance.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at University of Massachusetts AmherstBS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Tsinghua University
Github Skills (20)
multi-layer10
feed9
ranking9
science8
computer-science7
react7
deep-learning6
matching6
machine-learning6
neural-network4
statistics2
pytorch2
pytorch-lightning1
record-linkage1
heterogeneous1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
THUIR/THUIR-website
Sep 2022 - Jan 2023
THUIR website
Contributions:2 releases, 192 commits, 94 PRs in 3 months
ULTR-Community/ULTRA
May 2019 - Oct 2022
Unbiased Learning To Rank Algorithms (ULTRA)
Contributions:1 release, 23 commits, 14 PRs in 3 years 5 months
learning-to-rankultraunbiased
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