Academic Service & Record
University of Sheffield · School of Computer Science
Teaching
Lecturer COM1005· Machines and Intelligence Undergraduate module, University of Sheffield
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
Going Global Partnerships UK-Spain Springboard Programme British Council · £10,000 Awarded to support collaboration with the IRlab at University of A Coruña.
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.
Gold Medal · ACM-ICPC Provincial Contest ACM-ICPC Top-ranked team in the provincial ACM-ICPC International Collegiate Programming Contest.
Invited Talks
Adaptive RAG and Beyond: Towards Proactive Conversational Information Seeking ESSIR 2025 summer school · Wolverhampton, UK
Event Organisation
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.
Second Workshop on Multimodal AI Sheffield, UK Led by Professor Haiping Lu at University of Sheffield