Dawei Yin is a Senior Director of Engineering at Baidu Inc., where he leads the science efforts in web search, vertical search, and the emerging AI Search. Prior to joining Baidu, he served as a Senior Director at JD.com from 2016 to 2019, overseeing the recommendation engineering team. Before that, he was a Senior Research Manager at Yahoo Labs, where he led the relevance science team and was responsible for core search relevance in Yahoo Search. Dr. Yin holds a Ph.D. (2013) and M.S. (2010) from Lehigh University, and a B.S. (2006) from Shandong University. His research interests span data mining, applied machine learning, information retrieval, and recommender systems. He has published extensively in top-tier conferences and journals, receiving eight Best Paper Awards or runner-up honors, including recognitions from KDD, WSDM, and ICDM. He is a Distinguished Member of ACM.
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2025-02-13 Dawei is named ACM Distinguished Member for contributions to advanced search engine and recommendation system research.
2024-07-16 Dawei gave an invited talk “When Search Engine Meets LLMs” at SIGIR 2024 LLM Day.
2024-06-19 Dawei gave an invited talk “When Search Engine Meets LLMs” at China Conference on Large Models.
2023-12-09 Dawei received EMNLP 2023 Outstanding Paper Award for the paper entitled “Is ChatGPT Good at Search? Investigating Large Language Models as Re-Ranking Agents”.
2023-12-03 Dawei received IEEE ICDM Best Student Paper Award for the paper entitled “MPGraf: a Modular and Pre-trained Graphformer for Learning to Rank at Web-scale”.
2023-11-28 Dawei received ACM SIGIR-AP Best Paper Honorable Mention for the paper entitled “Sequential Recommendation with User Evolving Preference Decomposition”.
2023-10-19 Dawei received IEEE DSAA 2023 Best Paper Award for the paper entitled “GS2P: A Generative Pre-trained Learning to Rank Model with Over-parameterization for Web-Scale Search”.
2022-06-08 Dawei was invited to join Editorial Board of Foundations and Trends@ in Information Retrieval.
2021-12-17 Dawei is serving as the Topic Editor for the Research Topic on Industrial Recommender Systems, Journal of Frontiers in Big Data.
2021-06-21 Two works about pertrained language model in Baidu search will appear at KDD 2021.
2020-07-19 Dawei was invited to serve as Senior Program Committee at The Web Conference 2021 (WWW 2021).
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