About me: Ziyi Ye(叶子逸)
I am now a final year Ph.D. student in THUIR, Department of Computer Science and Technology in Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. My supervisor is Prof. Yiqun Liu. My major research interests are about Web search, user behavior analysis, brain machine interface and etc.
Education
- [08.2016-07.2020] B.S. student, Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, China.
- [08.2020-present] Ph.D. student, Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, China.
- [07.2023-11.2023] Guest Ph.D. student, Department of Computer Science (DIKU) and the Pioneer Centre for AI, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
- [11.2023-02.2024] Guest Ph.D. student, Institute of Informatics, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands.
News
- 12.2023, I gave an invited talk in the Institute of Information in University of Amsterdam about Language Generation from Brain Recordings. Slide
- 07.2023, I gave an invited talk to Lenovo Inc about Context-based Brain Decoding. Slide
- 09.2023, I gave an invited talk in Machine Learning Section of Copenhagen University about Brain-Computer Interface for Search. Slide
Publications
Ziyi Ye, Jingtao Zhan, Qingyao Ai, Yiqun Liu, Maarten de Rijke, Christina Lioma, and Tuukka Ruotsalo. Query Augmentation with Brain Signals. (MM 2024 full paper, Oral Acceptance Rate: 3.97%, CCF A). Preprint Version. Code.
Ziyi Ye, Xiaohui Xie, Qingyao Ai, Yiqun Liu, Zhihong Wang, Weihang Su, and Min Zhang. Relevance Feedback with Brain Signals. (TOIS, CCF A). Preprint Version. Code.
Ziyi Ye, Xiaohui Xie, Yiqun Liu, Zhihong Wang, Xuancheng Li, Jiaji Li, Xuesong Chen, Min Zhang, and Shaoping Ma. Why Don’t You Click: Understanding Human Reading Comprehension with Brain Signals. (SIGIR 2022 full paper, Acceptance Rate: 20.3%, CCF A). Preprint Version. Dataset&Code.
Ziyi Ye, Xiaohui Xie, Yiqun Liu, Zhihong Wang, Xuesong Chen, Min Zhang, and Shaoping Ma. Towards a Better Understanding of Human Reading Comprehension with Brain Signals. (The Web Conf 2022 full paper, Acceptance Rate: 17.7%, CCF A). Preprint Version. Code.
Ziyi Ye, Xiaohui Xie, Yiqun Liu, Zhihong Wang, Xuesong Chen, Min Zhang, and Shaoping Ma. Brain Topography Adaptive Satisfaction Modeling for Interactive Information Access. (MM 2022 full paper, Acceptance Rate: 27.9%, CCF A). Preprint Version. Code.
Zirui Zhu and Ziyi Ye. Towards More Efficient Federated Learning with Better Optimization Objects. Preprint Version.
Xuesong Chen, Ziyi Ye, Xiaohui Xie, Yiqun Liu, Weihang Su, Shuqi Zhu, Yike Zhang, Xiaorong Gao, Min Zhang, and Shaoping Ma. Web Search via an Efficient and Effective Brain-Machine Interface. (WSDM 2022 demo paper, CCF B). Preprint Version.
Jia Chen, Jiaxin Mao, Yiqun Liu, Ziyi Ye, Weizhi Ma, Chao Wang, Min Zhang and Shaoping Ma. A Hybrid Framework for Session Context Modeling. ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS, CCF A). Preprint Version.
Jiayu Li, Ziyi Ye, Weizhi Ma, Min Zhang, Yiqun Liu and Shaoping Ma. THUIR at the NTCIR-15 Micro-activity Retrieval Task. (NCTIR 2020). Preprint Version.
Ziyi Ye, Jiaxin Mao, Yiqun Liu, Min Zhang, and Shaoping Ma. Investigating COVID-19-Related Query Logs of Chinese Search Engine Users. Poster. (ASIS&T 2020). Dataset. Preprint Version.
Yunqiu Shao and Ziyi Ye. THUIR@AILA 2019: Information Retrieval Approaches for Identifying Relevant Precedents and Statutes. (FIRE 2019). Preprint Version
Ziyi Ye, Qingyao Ai, Yiqun Liu, Maarten de Rijke, Min Zhang, Christina Lioma, and Tuukka Ruotsalo. Language generation from brain recordings. Preprint Version. Code.
Teaching
- 2024. Teaching assistant at GenAI summer school, Tsinghua University. (Instructor of “Retrieval-argumented generation”.)
- 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024. Teaching assistant at “Fundamental Search Engine”, Tsinghua University.
Patents
- Yiqun Liu, Xuesong Chen, Xiaohui Xie, Ziyi Ye, Zhu Shuqi, Weihang Su, Xiaorong Gao, Yike Sun, Min Zhang, Shaoping Ma. Method, apparatus, electronic device, and storage medium for web search. (Chinese Patent (granted) & US Patent (under review)).
Competitions
- We won the 1st place in TASK 2 (Relevant Statue Retrieval Task) of AILA 2019 (Artificial Intelligence for Legal Assisstance). Working Notes.
- We won the 1st place in the NTCIR-15 Micro-activity Retrieval Task. Working Notes.
Datasets
Search-Brainwave Dataset. In our SIGIR’22 Full Paper Why Don’t You Click: Understanding Non-Click Results in Web Search with Brain Signals.
UERCM Dataset. In our The Web Conf’22 Full Paper Towards a Better Understanding of Human Reading Comprehension with Brain Signals.
TianGong-CRL Dataset. In our ASIST’20 Poster Investigating COVID-19-Related Query Logs of Chinese Search Engine Users.
Honors and Awards
- 2022. China National Scholarship, Chinese Government.
- 2017, 2018, 2023. Overall Excellence Scholarship, Tsinghua University.
- 2019. Academic Excellence Scholarship, Tsinghua University.
- 2016. Silver medal in Chinese Mathematical Olympiad(CMO), China Mathematical Federation.
- 2019. Bronze medal in CCF Collegiate Computer Systems & Program contest, China Computer Federation.