Xin Xin is now an Associate Professor in the School of Computer Science and Technology of Shandong University, as a member of the Information Retrieval Lab. He also serves as the Dean Assistant for the School of Artificial Intelligence, Shandong University. Before that, he got his PhD degree in computing science from University of Glasgow, under the supervision of Prof. Joemon Jose. Formerly, he got his master degree from School of Software Engineering in SJTU (上海交通大学) and his bachelor degree from XJTU (西安交通大学). His research interests span recommender systems, reinforcement learning, graph learning, causual inference for recommendation and NLP. His work appeared in sereval top-tier ML & IR conferences including SIGIR, WSDM, CIKM, IJCAI, ACL and UAI. His PhD is supported by Chinese Scholarship Council.

I'm looking for self-motivated (I won't push students while a good student should push me) master students. If you are interested in recommendation, reinforcement learning, and related fields, please drop me your CV (recruiting numbers depends on my funding). PS: Competition could be intense. Applicants are encouraged to have good communication ability (both in Chinese and English) since we could have densely connections with top-100 oversea universites and frequent presentations on international (CCF A/B) conferences. A good researcher should always be happy to share thoughts with peers.