Xinyu Mao@UQ

Hi, I’m a third-year PhD student from IELab at the University of Queensland (UQ), supervised by Professor. Guido Zuccon, A.Professor. Bevan Koopman, and Dr. Harrisen Scells.

I received a Master of Data Science from the University of Queensland in 2021. Before that, I obtained a Bachelor of Engineering and a Bachelor of Arts from Shanghai Ocean University in 2019.

My research focuses on Information Retrieval (IR), and my PhD topic is domain-specific: Automation of Medical Systematic Review. I have been working on Screening Prioritisation, and currently focus on Boolean Query Performance Prediction. I’m also interested in general IR topics, such as Ranker Robustness. Prior to my PhD, I had research experience in Cybersecurity, investigating the application of Homomorphic Encryption.

I tutor at UQ for DATA7001: Introduction to Data Science (2023) and INFS7410: Information Retrieval and Web Search (2023, 2024).

News

    July 15, 2024

    Poster Presentation at SIGIR 2024, Washington D.C, USA

    Presented a poster at the SIGIR 2024 conference in Washington D.C, USA.

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    March 26, 2024

    One paper (Short) Accepted at SIGIR 2024

    [Short Paper]: Dense Retrieval with Continuous Explicit Feedback for Systematic Review Screening Prioritisation

    March 25, 2024

    Present Paper at ECIR 2024, Glasgow, Scotland

    Presented a paper on reproducibility of BERT-based TAR in systematic review at the ECIR 2024 conference.

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Services

I serve as a reviewer/PC member for the following conferences:

  • ACM ICTIR 2023

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