My name is Chen Qu. I am a fourth year PhD student advised by Prof. W. Bruce Croft at the Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval (CIIR), College of Information and Computer Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Experience

• UMass Amherst, MS/PhD student and Research Assistant at Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval (CIIR). Advisor: Prof. W. Bruce Croft. Amherst, MA, US, Sept. 2017 - Present.
• Google Research, Research Intern working on natural language understanding. Host and co-hosts: Dr. Weize Kong, Dr. Liu Yang, and Dr. Mingyang Zhang. Mountain View, CA, US, May 2020 - Aug. 2020.
• Microsoft Research, Research Intern at Information and Data Sciences group. Mentor: Dr. Chenyan Xiong. Redmond, WA, US, May 2019 - Aug. 2019.
• Alibaba Group, Research Intern at AliMe X-Lab. Mentors: Dr. Feng Ji and Dr. Minghui Qiu. Hangzhou, China, May 2018 - Aug. 2018.
• Tencent, Software Engineer Intern. Shenzhen, China, Jul 2016 - Aug. 2016.

News

• [May 2020] Joining Google for a Summer internship on natural language understanding.
• [Aug. 2019] Received the W. Bruce Croft Graduate Scholarship in Computer Science.
• [May 2019] Joining Micorsoft Research Redmond for a Summer internship on conversational search.
• [May 2018] Joining the AliMe team at Alibaba Group to do a Summer research internship on multi-turn QA and conversational assistants.

Awards

• Outstanding Synthesis Project Award.
• Passed portfolio with distinction.
• W. Bruce Croft Graduate Scholarship in Computer Science 2019.
• SIGIR Student Travel Grant: SIGIR 2020, CIKM 2019, CHIIR 2019, SIGIR 2018.

Services

• Program Committee Member: ECIR 2021, CIKM 2020, ECIR 2020, [email protected] 2019, [email protected] 2019
• Reviewer: TOIS, KDD 2019-2020, AAAI 2019, NAACL 2019, ICTIR 2018

Teaching

• I am the Teaching Assistant for CS646 Information Retrieval (Fall 2020), a graduate-level course, at UMass Amherst.