Xu Chen
Tenure-track Associate Professor and Ph.D. Advisor, Gaoling School of Artificial Intelligence, Renmin University of China
Xu Chen is a tenure-track Associate Professor and Ph.D. advisor at the Gaoling School of Artificial Intelligence, Renmin University of China, and the recipient of the National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars (NSFC Excellent Young). He received his Ph.D. from Tsinghua University, studied as a visiting scholar at the Georgia Institute of Technology (USA), and conducted postdoctoral research at University College London (UK).
His primary research interests include large language models, reinforcement learning, recommender systems, and causal inference. He has published over 100 papers in top international conferences and journals, including The Web Conference, SIGIR, KDD, ICML, NeurIPS, ICLR, and AIJ, with more than 10,000 citations on Google Scholar.
He has received five Best Paper Awards or nominations at leading international conferences (The Web Conference 2018, CIKM 2022 Resource, SIGIR-AP 2023, MM Asia 2024, AIRS 2017). His honors include the CCF Natural Science Award (Second Prize, ranked 2/2), the Qian Weichang Young Innovation Award from the Chinese Information Processing Society of China, the ACM Beijing Rising Star Award, and the CAAI Social Computing Young Scholar Rising Star Award.
His research has been widely applied in industry, and he was awarded Huawei’s Innovation Pioneer President’s Award (First Prize).