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 degree of Math at 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]