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General information

Full Name Zhaochun Ren
Date of Birth 1987

Education

  • 2012 - 2016
    PhD in ILPS
    University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
    • Supervisor
      • Prof. Dr. Maarten de Rijke
  • 2009 - 2012
    M.E. in Computer Science and Technology
    Shandong University, Qingdao, China
    • Supervisor
      • Prof. Jun Ma
  • 2005 - 2009
    B.E. in Computer Science and Technology
    Shandong University, Qingdao, China

Working experience

  • 2023 - now
    (Tenured) Associate Professor
    Leiden University
  • 2019 - 2023
    Professor
    Shandong University, China
  • 2017 - 2019
    Research Scientist & Senior Research Manager
    Data Science Lab at JD.com, China
    • Worked on e-commerce recommender systems, text mining, and dialogue systems.
  • 2016 - 2017
    Research Associate
    Department of Computer Science, University College London, United Kingdom
    • Worked on an EPSRC project about early warning for infectious diseases.
  • 2012-2016
    PhD student
    Informatics Institute, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    • Worked on social media analysis.
  • 2014
    Visiting Scholar
    Natural Language Processing Group, Columbia University, U.S.A
    • Supervisor
      • Prof. Kathleen McKeown
  • 2012
    Visiting Scholar
    D5, Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany
    • Supervisor
      • Prof. Gerhard Weikumv

Scholarships and Awards

  • 2022
    Rising Star Award on Natural Language Processing
    • China Computer Federation
  • 2020
    Tencent “Rhino Bird” Faculty Research Award
  • 2019
    WSDM 2019 Outstanding Reviewer Award
  • 2019-2023
    Qilu Youth Fellowship, Shandong University
  • 2018
    WSDM 2018 Best Student Paper Award
  • 2017
    CIKM 2017 Best Full Paper Runner Up Award
  • 2015
    Chinese Government Award for Outstanding PhD Students