Zhenduo Wang is a researcher on Conversational Systems, Language Generation, Reinforcement Learning, and Imitation Learning. He is now a postdoc at Georgia Tech. Before that, he defended his Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Utah and earned his Master’s degree in Math at the University of Minnesota Duluth. A resume can be found here. His research statement can be found here.

Selected Publications

• An In-depth Investigation of User Response Simulation for Conversational Search
  Zhenduo Wang, Zhichao Xu, Vivek Srikumar, Qingyao Ai
  In Proceedings of the Web Conference 2024 (WWW’24)
  [Code]

• Zero-shot Clarifying Question Generation for Conversational Search
  Zhenduo Wang, Yuancheng Tu, Corby Rosset, Nick Craswell, Ming Wu, Qingyao Ai
  In Proceedings of the Web Conference 2023 (WWW’23)
  [Code]

• Simulating and Modeling the Risk of Conversational Search
  Zhenduo Wang, Qingyao Ai
  In ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
  [Code] [Dataset]

• Controlling the Risk of Conversational Search via Reinforcement Learning
  Zhenduo Wang, Qingyao Ai
  In Proceedings of the Web Conference 2021 (WWW’21)
  [Code]