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Chengxiang Zhai

Donald Biggar Willett Professor in Engineering

UIUC

Affiliations

School of Information Sciences

The Grainger College of Engineering

Siebel School of Computing and Data Science

Chengxiang Zhai is currently serving as a School Of Information Sciences Donald Biggar Willett Professor in Engineering at Uiuc.

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Chengxiang Zhai

UIUC

Donald Biggar Willett Professor in Engineering

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data science information retrieval semantic evaluation text mining natural language processing knowledge discovery web search computer science linguistics data mining computational linguistics language models language machine learning query models machine learning research natural language generation interactive information retrieval content analysis informetrics online information relevance feedback topic models intelligent information retrieval query expansion query analysis recommender systems information extraction biomedical informatics language resources semantic web nlp task search technology opinion aggregation biomedical text mining databases automatic summarization interactive search keyword extraction learning to rank social medium mining ranking algorithms keyword search machine translation knowledge-based systems knowledge retrieval social medium data document clustering retrieval augmented generation molecular informatics semantic search named-entity recognition entity disambiguation text processing digital medicine document classification cross-language retrieval entity summarization terminology extraction text indexing search logs pseudo feedback gene ontology difficult queries keyword query axiomatic thinking feedback documents search engine topic modeling negative feedback sentiment analysis entity recognition hidden markov models retrieval system risk minimization domain adaptation problem technology informatics information systems e-science biocybernetics scientific data computing education computational biology bioinformatics

Notable Scholarly Works

Notable Federal Grants

Collaborators

Beyond Reactive Safety: Risk-Aware Llm Alignment via Long-Horizon Simulation. Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2022 (2025)

Chenkai SunDenghui ZhangChengXiang ZhaiHeng Ji

computer sciencesystems engineeringcomputational sciencesoftware analysismodeling and simulationthreat modelbeyond reactive safetysystem safetyrisk management

Information Retrieval for Artificial General Intelligence: A New Perspective of Information Retrieval Research. Proceedings of the 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (2025)

ChengXiang Zhai

artificial intelligenceinformation retrieval researchartificial general intelligenceweb searchintelligent information retrievalintelligent computingknowledge representation and reasoningdata scienceinformation retrievalknowledge retrievalinteractive information retrievalintelligent searching

INSTINFO: A Just-In-Time Literature Recommendation System for Presentations. Proceedings of the 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (2025)

Kevin RosRahul SureshChengXiang Zhai

recommender systemscontent analysiscollaborative filteringelectronic librarydigital humanitiesinformation retrievalcold-start problemfilmconversational recommender system

Integrating Prior Knowledge From Genome-Scale Metabolic Model With Metabolomics for Diet Assessment. (2025)

Kowshika SarkerRuoqing ZhuHannah D HolscherChengXiang Zhai

biostatisticsprecision nutritionmetabolismbiomedical informaticsprior knowledgediet assessmentnutritional biochemistrymetabolic pathwaysnutritionmetabolomicsdata sciencemetabolomic profilingmetabolic profilinggenome-scale metabolic model

Knowledge-Centered Dual-Process Reasoning for Math Word Problems With Large Language Models. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (2025)

Jiayu LiuZhenya HuangQi LiuZhiyuan MaChengxiang ZhaiEnhong Chen

computational semanticslinguisticsmathematical linguisticsknowledge-centered dual-process reasoningknowledge-based reasoningcomputer-assisted reasoningmathematicssemantic evaluationknowledge representation and reasoningnatural language processingmath word problemsautomated reasoninglanguage modelsmodel-based reasoninglarge language models

Learning to Slice: Self-Supervised Interpretable Hierarchical Representation Learning With Graph Auto-Encoder Tree. (2025)

Jinning LiRuipeng HanJingying ZengDachun SunChenkai SunHanghang TongChengXiang ZhaiBoleslaw K. SzymanskiTarek Abdelzaher

computer sciencegeometric learningdeep learningneural network (machine learning)graph neural networksmachine learning researchautoencodersdata scienceimage representationgraph auto-encoder treeself-supervised learningmachine learning

Living Health-Promotion Campaigns for Communities in the United States: Decentralized Content Extraction and Sharing Through AI. PNAS Nexus (2025)

Man-pui Sally ChanHaesung JungAlex MoralesAngela ZhangDevlin O’KeefeSarah JosephAnthony HronJanet DavisTito TerryTiffany PetersonCorey HerrmanMelissa PhillipsJennifer OsborneKelley G McBrideMartin HensleyAdriana TodorovAlain MorrissetteGeorgett WatsonEthan KnoxErin LarkElisa LongCarolina Guerrero-LaraTimothy RisselMichele RaymondPatrick SullivanSophie LohmannAashna SunderrajanMarta R DurantiniTravis SanchezChengxiang ZhaiDolores Albarracin

health communicationpublic healthsocial media postscontent analysissocial webmedical internet researchsocial mediasocial network analysissocial simulationonline informationsocial medium datacommunicationhealth information sciencecomputational social sciencecontent extractionsocial medium monitoringsocial computing

Proceedings of the 34Th Acm International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management. Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (2025)

Snehasis MukhopadhyayChengXiang ZhaiElisa BertinoFabio CrestaniJaved MostafaJie TangLuo SiXiaofang ZhouYi ChangYunyao LiParikshit Sondhi

informaticscomputer scienceknowledge data engineeringbig dataknowledge-based systemsknowledge discoveryknowledge managemententerprise information managementknowledge discovery processacm internationalsemantic webdata scienceinformation managementdata managementknowledge graphsacm international conference

Theory and Toolkits for User Simulation in the Era of Generative AI: User Modeling, Synthetic Data Generation, and System Evaluation. Proceedings of the 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (2025)

Krisztian BalogNolwenn BernardSaber ZerhoudiChengXiang Zhai

artificial intelligencecomputer sciencesynthetic data generationuser simulationgenerative systemsgenerative aihuman-computer interactioncomputational intelligencemodeling and simulationdata sciencesimulation methodologydata generation

TINK: Text Information Navigation Kit. Proceedings of the 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (2025)

Dean E. AlvarezChengXiang Zhai

hypertexttext processingmarkup languageintelligent user interfacesnatural language processinglanguageinformation retrievaltext mining

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Chengxiang Zhai

Donald Biggar Willett Professor in Engineering

UIUC

Affiliations

School of Information Sciences

The Grainger College of Engineering

Siebel School of Computing and Data Science

Chengxiang Zhai is currently serving as a School Of Information Sciences Donald Biggar Willett Professor in Engineering at Uiuc.

Honors

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Experiences

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Education

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Chengxiang Zhai

UIUC

Donald Biggar Willett Professor in Engineering

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Notable Scholarly Works

Notable Federal Grants

Collaborators

Beyond Reactive Safety: Risk-Aware Llm Alignment via Long-Horizon Simulation. Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2022 (2025)

Chenkai SunDenghui ZhangChengXiang ZhaiHeng Ji

computer sciencesystems engineeringcomputational sciencesoftware analysismodeling and simulationthreat modelbeyond reactive safetysystem safetyrisk management

ChengXiang Zhai

INSTINFO: A Just-In-Time Literature Recommendation System for Presentations. Proceedings of the 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (2025)

Kevin RosRahul SureshChengXiang Zhai

recommender systemscontent analysiscollaborative filteringelectronic librarydigital humanitiesinformation retrievalcold-start problemfilmconversational recommender system

Integrating Prior Knowledge From Genome-Scale Metabolic Model With Metabolomics for Diet Assessment. (2025)

Kowshika SarkerRuoqing ZhuHannah D HolscherChengXiang Zhai

Knowledge-Centered Dual-Process Reasoning for Math Word Problems With Large Language Models. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (2025)

Jiayu LiuZhenya HuangQi LiuZhiyuan MaChengxiang ZhaiEnhong Chen

Learning to Slice: Self-Supervised Interpretable Hierarchical Representation Learning With Graph Auto-Encoder Tree. (2025)

Jinning LiRuipeng HanJingying ZengDachun SunChenkai SunHanghang TongChengXiang ZhaiBoleslaw K. SzymanskiTarek Abdelzaher

Living Health-Promotion Campaigns for Communities in the United States: Decentralized Content Extraction and Sharing Through AI. PNAS Nexus (2025)

Proceedings of the 34Th Acm International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management. Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (2025)

Snehasis MukhopadhyayChengXiang ZhaiElisa BertinoFabio CrestaniJaved MostafaJie TangLuo SiXiaofang ZhouYi ChangYunyao LiParikshit Sondhi

Krisztian BalogNolwenn BernardSaber ZerhoudiChengXiang Zhai

TINK: Text Information Navigation Kit. Proceedings of the 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (2025)

Dean E. AlvarezChengXiang Zhai

hypertexttext processingmarkup languageintelligent user interfacesnatural language processinglanguageinformation retrievaltext mining

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