Qian Zhao (or Will)

I'm currently leading a team in the Artificial Intelligence Group at Bloomberg LP, focused on interactive machine learning and human-AI collaboration. I graduated with a Ph.D. from GroupLens lab, Computer Science, at the University of Minnesota in May 2018, advised by Prof. Joe Konstan. My research interests are recommender systems, social computing, human-computer interaction and interactive machine learning.

Recent News

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Professional Services

• 2021
  • Senior Program Committee member for RecSys 2021
  • Program Committee member for SIGIR 2021
• 2020
  • Program Committee member for SIGIR 2020
• 2019
  • Program Committee member for CSCW 2020 (as an Associate Chair)
  • Program Committee member for WSDM 2020, TheWebConf 2020, RecSys 2019
  • Reviewer for CSCW 2019, Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
• 2018
  • Program Committee member for WSDM 2019 (recognized as an Outstanding PC member)
  • Reviewer for the Journal of Intelligent Information Systems
• 2017
  • Reviewer for Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Springer
  • Reviewer for AAAI 2018, RecSys 2017, TVX 2017, IDC 2017
• 2016
  • Reviewer for RecSys 2016, CIKM 2016

Conference Attendence

• 9/2020 at RecSys'20
• 9/2019 at RecSys'19
  • Talk slides on "From Preference Into Decision Making: Modeling Interactions in Recommender Systems"
• 5/2019 at ICML'19
• 9/2018 at RecSys'18
  • Talk slides on "Interpreting User Inaction in Recommender Systems"
  • Talk slides on "Categorical-Attributes-Based Item Classification for Recommender Systems"
• 5/2018 at SIGIR'18
  • Talk slides on "Calendar-Aware Proactive Email Recommendation"
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