Curriculum Vitae

Education

• Ph.D, The University of Queensland, 2025 (expected)
• M.S. in Data Science, The University of Queensland, 2021
• B.A. in English Literature, Shanghai Ocean University, 2019
• B.E. in Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Ocean University, 2019

Work experience

• Visiting Scholar
  • Leipzig University
  • Host: Dr. Harrisen Scells, Professor Martin Potthast
• Research Assistant
  • The University of Queensland
  • Participated in Preserving the Privacy and Cybersecurity of Home Energy Data
  • Supervisor: Dr. Yanjun Zhang
• Teaching Assistant
  • The University of Queensland
  • Courses: DATA7001, INFS7410
  • Supervisor: Dr. Joel MacKenzie, Professor Guido Zuccon

Publications

DenseReviewer: A Screening Prioritisation Tool for Systematic Review based on Dense Retrieval

Xinyu Mao, Teerapong Leelanupab, Harrisen Scells, Guido Zuccon. 2025. DenseReviewer: A Screening Prioritisation Tool for Systematic Review based on Dense Retrieval. In Proceedings of the 47th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2025).

Dense Retrieval with Continuous Explicit Feedback for Systematic Review Screening Prioritisation

Xinyu Mao, Shengyao Zhuang, Bevan Koopman and Guido Zuccon. 2024. Dense Retrieval with Continuous Explicit Feedback for Systematic Review Screening Prioritisation. In Proceedings of the 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2024).

A Reproducibility Study of Goldilocks: Just-Right Tuning of BERT for TAR

Xinyu Mao, Bevan Koopman and Guido Zuccon. 2024. A Reproducibility Study of Goldilocks: Just-Right Tuning of BERT for TAR. In Proceedings of the 46th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2024).

Robustness of Neural Rankers to Typos: A Comparative Study

Shengyao Zhuang, Xinyu Mao and Guido Zuccon. 2022. Robustness of Neural Rankers to Typos: A Comparative Study. In Proceedings of the 26th Australasian Document Computing Symposium (ADCS 2022).

Preserving the Privacy and Cybersecurity of Home Energy Data

Richard Bean, Yanjun Zhang, Ryan KL Ko, Xinyu Mao and Guangdong Bai. 2023. Preserving the Privacy and Cybersecurity of Home Energy Data. Emerging Trends in Cybersecurity Applications. Springer.

Teaching

INFS7410 Information Retrieval and Web Search

INFS7410 Information Retrieval and Web Search

DATA7001 Introduction to Data Science

Awards

Dean’s commendation for academic excellence

ADCS Travel Grant

UQ Earmarked PhD Scholarship

Best Student Paper Award