Hansi Zeng 曾翰偲 PhD student Manning College of Information & Computer Sciences University of Massachusetts Amherst Massachusetts, Amherst Email: hzeng@umass.edu

About [CV]

I am currently a first-year PhD student in Manning College of Information & Computer Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst, asvised by Prof. Hamed Zamani . My current research intersts are Dense Retrieval, Knowledge Distillation, and Recommender System.

Publications

• Hansi Zeng, Vishwa Vinay, Hamed Zamani. Curriculum Learning for Dense Retrieval Distillation. In Proceedings of the 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR'22). [paper] [poster] [code] Best Short Paper Award
• Hansi Zeng, Zhichao Xu, Qingyao Ai. A Zero Attentative Relevance Matching Network for Review Modeling in Recommnder System. In Proceedings of the 41st European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR'21). [paper]
• Zhichao Xu, Hansi Zeng, Qingyao Ai. Understanding the Effectiveness of Reviews in E-commerce Top-N Recommendation. In Proceedings of the 7th ACM International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR'21). [paper]

Selected Projects

• Neural network models for E-commerce product search. github repo
• Pytorch implementations of text semantic matching models. github repo
• Pytorch implementations of review-based recommendation models. github repo
• Comparative Study of Reinforcement Learning-based and Traditional Motion Planning Algorithms presentation

Teaching Experience

• Teaching Assistant of ECE 3530 Engineering Probability and Statistics in Fall 2020, University of Utah