Yaxiong Wu
Office: Room G122, Lilybank Gardens
Email: y.wu.4@research.gla.ac.uk
Research title: Deep Reinforcement Learning for Multi-Modal Conversational Recommender Systems
Research Summary
I am currently a PhD student in the Terrier Team in the School of Computing Science, in the field of recommender system as a part of Closed Loop Data Science Project. My supervisors are Dr Craig Macdonald and Prof. Iadh Ounis.
Current Research Title (PhD):
Modelling and Evaluating Closed Loop Interactions in Recommender Systems
Research Interests:
- Sequential Recommender System
- Online Learning to Rank
- Reinforcement Learning
Current Projects:
- A Hybrid Conditional Variational Autoencoder Model for Personalised Top-n Recommendation
- Evaluation of Sequential Recommenders with Dynamic User-Item Interactions in E-commerce
- Study of Online Learning to Rank techniques in IR/RecSys
Supervisors
Additional Information
Education
2018-2019 University of Glasgow (UofG), Glasgow, UK
Postgraduate Taught MSc in Data Science
- Graduation with Distinction
2013-2016 Beihang University (BUAA), Beijing, China
Master of Engineering Aerospace Science and Technology
- Excellent Master’s Degree Dissertation
- Received merit-based scholarships consecutively each year
2009-2013 Harbin Engineering University (HEU), Harbin, China
Bachelor of Engineering Flight Vehicle Propulsion Engineering
Bachelor of Management Business Administration (minor)
- Received merit-based scholarships consecutively each year
