I am an AI/ML engineer at GrowthProtocol.ai. Before it, I was advised by Prof. Alan Ritter as a postdoctoral researcher on conversational systems and large language models at Georgia Tech for one year after I obtained my Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Utah, advised by Prof. Qingyao Ai and Prof. Vivek Srikumar. I obtained my Master’s degree in Math at the University of Minnesota Duluth, advised by Prof. Ted Pedersen and Prof. Yang Li. I was advised by Prof. Risheng Liu during my undergraduate study in Dalian University of Technology, China. I am very thankful to be advised by all of the great minds above. My resume 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]