Dan Li 

I am currently a postdoc at the University of Amsterdam, and the scientific coordinator of the Amsterdam unit of ELLIS.

I did my PhD in IRLAB with Prof. Evangelos Kanoulas and Prof. Maarten de Rijke at the University of Amsterdam from 2016 to 2020. In my dissertation – titled Effective Collection Construction for Information Retrieval Evaluation and Optimization, I studied a fundamental way of constructing and utilizing test collections in information retrieval in an effective, efficient and reliable manner.

 I received my M.A. degree at Dalian University of Technology in 2016. During my master, I working on the collocation extraction problem in Natural Language Processing. My master thesis is titled Collocation Extraction and Collocational Features of Verbs in China English, supervised by Prof. Jingxiang Cao. 

I received the B.Sc. degree in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics at Dalian University of Technology in 2011. 

Except academia, I have been working as an Assistant Software Engineer in Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd, Beijing, China, for two years.

My hometown is in Inner Mongolia (China). I love dancing (zumba). I'm a big language fan. I speak Chinese and English as daily and working language. I also speak Japanese and Thai for fun.

Professional experiences

2021/01 – now  University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands                     

Postdoc, information retrieval, supervised by Prof. dr. Maarten de Rijke and Prof. dr. Max Welling.

Education 

2016/10 – 2020/11  University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands                     

Ph.D., Computer Science

2013/09 – 2016/07  Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China                                           

M.A., Linguistics and Applied Linguistics

2007/09 – 2011/07  Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China                                          

B.Sc., Mathematics and Applied Mathematics

News 

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• [7/2021]:  I presented my TOIS paper  "When to Stop Reviewing in Technology-Assisted Reviews" in SIGIR 2021. 

• [1/2021]:  Our paper "CrowdGP: a Gaussian Process Model for Inferring Relevance from Crowd Annotations" is accepted in The Web Conference 2021. 

• [1/2021]: I joined the Amsterdam unit of ELLIS as a postdoc researcher.  I will continue working on test collection construction method in adhoc search as well as conversational search.

• [11/2020]: I defend my doctoral thesis titled Effective Collection Construction for Information Retrieval Evaluation and Optimization, on 20 November 2020 at University of Amsterdam.

• [04/2020]: Our demo paper "APS: An Active PubMed Search System for Technology Assisted Review" is accepted in SIGIR 2020. 

• [04/2020]: Our full paper "Query Resolution for Conversational Search with Limited Supervision" is accepted in SIGIR 2020. The paper is a followed-up work of ILPS at TREC 2019 Conversational Assistant Track.

• [11/2019]: Our worknote paper in the TREC 2019 CAsT track is available.  Check ILPS at TREC 2019 Conversational Assistant Track.

• [11/2019]: Our participation in the TREC 2019 CAsT track with Nikos Voskarides, Pengjie Ren, and Andreas Panteli was presented in the Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2019). Our best run ranks 4/41.

• [11/2019]: I attended CLEF 2019 held in Lugano, Switzerland.

• [9/2019]: Working note paper "CLEF 2019 Technologically Assisted Reviews in Empirical Medicine Overview" was accpeted in CLEF 2019.

• [9/2019]: Working note paper "Automatic Thresholding by Sampling Documents and Estimating Recall" was accpeted in CLEF 2019.

• [7/2019]: I attended SIGIR 2019 held in Paris, France.

• [3/2019]: I am acting as a coach for AI master thesis program in University of Amsterdam.

• [2/2019]: I joined Universiteit Van Amsterdam Inclusive AI (IAI) community as a mentor. The IAI is an inclusive space for members to get non-academic help from senior peers in the field and connect with like-minded people of a similar background. Welcome send me email if you are interested.

• [11/2018]: I attended Tony Kent Strix Award 2018 held in London, where Professor Maarten De Rijke gave a talk.

• [11/2018]: I attended EMNLP 2018 held in Brussels, Belgium.

• [08/2018]: Our paper "Studying Topical Relevance with Evidence-based Crowdsourcing" was accepted by CIKM 2018.

• [08/2018]: Our paper "T-Reader:A Multi-task Deep Reading Comprehension Model with Self-attention Mechanism" was accepted in Journal of Chinese Information Processing (Year 2018, Volume 32, Issue 11).

• [02/2018-05/2018]: I visited the THUIR group in Tsinghua University for research exchange for three months, supervised by Yiqun Liu.

• [04/2018]: Our paper "Technology Assisted Reviews: Finding the Last Few Relevant Documents by Asking Yes/No Questions to Reviewers" was accepted by SIGIR 2018.

• [11/2017]: Our paper "Bayesian Optimization for Optimizing Retrieval Systems" was accepted by WSDM 2018.

• [08/2017]: Our paper "Active Sampling for Large-scale Information Retrieval Evaluation" was accepted by CIKM 2017.

Contact

Address:

1.12, Villiage.AI, Science Park 608B, 

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Postcode:

1098 XH, Amsterdam

Email:

D.Li@uva.nl