Academic Service & Record

University of Sheffield  ·  School of Computer Science


Teaching

2024–25
Lecturer COM1005· Machines and Intelligence Undergraduate module, University of Sheffield
2025–now
Module Leader COM6115· Text Processing postgraduate module, University of Sheffield

Academic Reviewing

Programme committee member and reviewer for the following venues:

NLP / AI Conferences

ACL EMNLP NAACL EACL COLING AAAI IJCAI

Information Retrieval

SIGIR CIKM WWW ECIR WSDM

Journals

ACM TOIS IEEE TKDE Information Processing & Management Frontiers in Psychiatry

Awards & Honours

2026
Going Global Partnerships UK-Spain Springboard Programme British Council  ·  £10,000 Awarded to support collaboration with the IRlab at University of A Coruña.
2022
Google Research Workshop Grant Google  ·  $20,000 Co-recipient with Prof. Emine Yilmaz (UCL). Awarded for the workshop on Action, Task and User Journey, supporting research on task-oriented dialogue systems. Outcomes published at AAAI 2023 and EMNLP 2023.
2015
Gold Medal · ACM-ICPC Provincial Contest ACM-ICPC Top-ranked team in the provincial ACM-ICPC International Collegiate Programming Contest.

Invited Talks

2025
Adaptive RAG and Beyond: Towards Proactive Conversational Information Seeking ESSIR 2025 summer school  ·  Wolverhampton, UK

Event Organisation

2025
ProActLLM: Proactive Conversational Information Seeking with Large Language Models CIKM 2025  ·  Seoul, South Korea Act as lead organiser to group research contributions towards proactive AI.
2024
Second Workshop on Multimodal AI Sheffield, UK Led by Professor Haiping Lu at University of Sheffield