ChengXiang Zhai
Donald Biggar Willett Professor in Engineering
Studies information retrieval and text mining, including search engines, language models for retrieval and intelligent education.
ChengXiang Zhai's lab at UIUC works on knowledge, QA & retrieval, large language models and recommendation, search & web. 26 papers since 2023, 9 at top venues, mostly SIGIR and ACL. 12 PhD students and 9 master's students. 191 alumni, most often to Meta and Microsoft. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 7/ year
- at T1 venues
- 35%
- PhD students
- 12
- MS students
- 9
- alumni listed
- 191
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 0 papers2026 · T1 0 · collecting
- 4 papers2025 · T1 4
- 12 papers2024 · T1 2
- 10 papers2023 · T1 3
T1 venuesOtherVenues: SIGIR, ACL, EACL, COLING, WWW
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Large language models8 papers
- Knowledge, QA & retrieval6 papers
- Recommendation, search & web3 papers
- retrieval2 papers
- search engines0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
20254 papers
- SIGIR (T1)Information Retrieval for Artificial General Intelligence: A New Perspective of Information Retrieval Research
- SIGIR (T1)InstInfo: A Just-in-Time Literature Recommendation System for Presentations
- COLING (T1)Persona-DB: Efficient Large Language Model Personalization for Response Prediction with Collaborative Data Refinement
- SIGIR (T1)TINK: Text Information Navigation Kit
202412 papers
- EACLAnaDE1. 0: A Novel Data Set for Benchmarking Analogy Detection and Extraction
- AI for Education: Bridging Innovation and Responsibility at the AAAI Annual Conference on AIAnalego: Let's build analogies together!
- Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 37 : 110131-110155Bias and Volatility: A Statistical Framework for Evaluating Large Language Model's Stereotypes and the Associated Generation Inconsistency
- BigDataHypergraph of Text: a Mathematical Structure for Organizing and Analyzing Big Text Data
- SIGIR (T1)Large Language Models and Future of Information Retrieval: Opportunities and Challenges
- Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence 7 : 1460364Large language models for whole-learner support: opportunities and challenges
- BigDataLiveDataLab: A Cloud-based Open Lab for Integrating Big Data Research, Education, and Applications
- Proceedings of the International Natural Language Generation Conference: Generation ChallengesLong-Form Analogy Evaluation Challenge
- BIBMPrior-guided longitudinal metabolomic analysis
- SIGIR (T1)TextData: Save What You Know and Find What You Don't
- Journal of Computational Social Science : 1-43Understanding the social construction of juvenile delinquency: insights from semantic analysis of big-data historical newspaper collections
- Proceedings of theUOUO: Uncontextualized Uncommon Objects for Measuring Knowledge Horizons of Vision Language Models
202310 papers
- Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health InformaticsAugmenting nutritional metabolomics with a genome-scale metabolic model for assessment of diet intake
- WWW (T1)Cam: A large language model-based creative analogy mining framework
- Proceedings of theDecoding the Silent Majority: Inducing Belief Augmented Social Graph with Large Language Model for Response Forecasting
- EACLIncorporating Task-Specific Concept Knowledge into Script Learning
- Journal of Biomedical Informatics 143 : 104392Keblm: Knowledge-enhanced biomedical language models
- Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI’Learning by Applying: A General Framework for Mathematical Reasoning via Enhancing Explicit Knowledge Learning
- ACL (T1)Measuring the Effect of Influential Messages on Varying Personas
- Proceedings of theRetrieving Webpages Using Online Discussions
- Information Processing Systems 36 : 19799-19822Sparse modular activation for efficient sequence modeling
- ACL (T1)When to Use What: An In-Depth Comparative Empirical Analysis of OpenIE Systems for Downstream Applications
Where alumni went191 listed, 29% to industry
Industry 5Academia 12
Most often to
- Meta
- Microsoft
- OpenAI
Also to
- UIUC
- MIT
- Georgia Tech
Apply to UIUCFall 2027
UIUC Siebel Computer Science PhD
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- Single round
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- GRE
- optional
- English
- TOEFL iBT / IELTS
- Fee
- USD 90
Not yet confirmed for this intake.
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