Shuai Wang is a dedicated PhD student working under the supervision of Dr. Guido Zuccon, Dr. Bevan Koopman and unofficial supervisor Dr. Harrisen Scells. He earned his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Western Australia in December 2019 and completed his Master of Engineering Science degree at the University of Queensland in July 2021. Shuai is passionate about exploring various research areas, including information retrieval, natural language processing (NLP), machine learning, and security. You can learn more about his academic background and research projects at here.
Internship Opportunities
Shuai is actively seeking internship opportunities for 2023, starting from November or December. If you have an opening that aligns with his research interests and expertise, please don’t hesitate to reach out by email. Thank you for your consideration!
News
SIGIR 2023 Student Travel Grant
I am grateful to SIGIR for awarding me a student travel grant of USD 1125 and a complimentary conference registration to attend the SIGIR 2023 conference
Two Papers Accepted at SIGIR 2023
[Full Paper]: Can ChatGPT Write a Good Boolean Query for Systematic Review Literature Search?; and [Reproducibility Paper]: Balanced Topic Aware Sampling for Effective Dense Retriever: A Reproducibility Study have been accepted to SIGIR 2023.
Read moreResearch Visit at Leipzig University
Visiting Leipzig University for two months to collaborate on research projects related to systematic review automation and complex medicine-based question-answering.
Read morePoster Presentations at WSDM 2023, Singapore
Presented a demo poster on MeSH Term suggestion at the WSDM 2023 conference in Singapore.
Read morePresentations at ADCS 2022, Adelaide, Australia
Presented a paper on using neural ranker in systematic review screening at the ADCS 2022 conference in Adelaide, Australia.
Read morePoster Presentations at SIGIR 2022, Madrid, Spain
Presented two posters at the SIGIR 2022 conference in Madrid, Spain.
Read morePresent Paper at ECIR 2022, Online
Presented a paper on reproducibility of Seed-driven document ranking in systematic review at the ECIR 2022 conference.
Read morePresent Paper at ADCS 2021, Online, Received Best Student Paper Award
Presented a paper on MeSH Term suggestion and received the Best Student Paper Award.
Read moreStarted PhD program at The University of Queensland
Began a PhD program in information retrieval and natural language processing at The University of Queensland.
Present Paper at ICTIR 2021, Online
Presented a paper online interpolation of DR and BM25 at the ICTIR 2021 conference.
Publications
Can ChatGPT Write a Good Boolean Query for Systematic Review Literature Search? Long
Shuai Wang, Harrisen Scells, Bevan Koopman and Guido Zuccon. 2023. Can ChatGPT Write a Good Boolean Query for Systematic Review Literature Search? In Proceedings of the 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2023).
Balanced Topic Aware Sampling for Effective Dense Retriever: A Reproducibility Study Reproduce
Shuai Wang, and Guido Zuccon. 2023. Balanced Topic Aware Sampling for Effective Dense Retriever: A Reproducibility Study. In Proceedings of the 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2023).
MeSH Suggester: A Library and System for MeSH Term Suggestion for Systematic Review Boolean Query Construction Short
Shuai Wang and Hang Li and Guido Zuccon. 2023. MeSH Suggester: A Library and System for MeSH Term Suggestion for Systematic Review Boolean Query Construction. In the 16th Web Search and Data Mining Conference WSDM 2023.
Neural Rankers for Effective Screening Prioritization in Medical Systematic Review Literature Search Long
Shuai Wang and Harry Scells and Bevan Koopman and Guido Zuccon. 2022. Neural Rankers for Effective Screening Prioritization in Medical Systematic Review Literature Search. In Australasian Document Computing Symposium (ADCS 2022, to appear).
Automated MeSH Term Suggestion for Effective Query Formulation in Systematic Reviews Literature Search Journal
Shuai Wang and Harry Scells and Bevan Koopman and Guido Zuccon. 2022. Automated MeSH Term Suggestion for Effective Query Formulation in Systematic Reviews Literature Search. In Intelligent Systems with Applications (ISWA) Technology-Assisted Review Systems Special Issue.
To Interpolate or not to Interpolate: PRF, Dense and Sparse Retrievers Short
Hang Li and Shuai Wang and Shengyao Zhuang and Ahmed Mourad and xueguang-ma and jimmy-lin and Guido Zuccon. 2022. To Interpolate or not to Interpolate: PRF, Dense and Sparse Retrievers. In Proceedings of the 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2022).
From Little Things Big Things Grow: A Collection with Seed Studies for Medical Systematic Review Literature Search Long
Shuai Wang and Harry Scells and Justin Clark and Guido Zuccon and Bevan Koopman. 2022. From Little Things Big Things Grow: A Collection with Seed Studies for Medical Systematic Review Literature Search. In Proceedings of the 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2022).
SDR for Systematic Reviews: A Reproducibility Study Reproduce
Shuai Wang and Harry Scells and Ahmed Mourad and Guido Zuccon. 2022. SDR for Systematic Reviews: A Reproducibility Study. In Proceedings of the 44th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2022).
MeSH Term Suggestion for Systematic Review Literature Search Long
Shuai Wang and Hang Li and Harry Scells and Daniel Locke and Guido Zuccon. 2021. MeSH Term Suggestion for Systematic Review Literature Search. In Australasian Document Computing Symposium (ADCS 2021).
IELAB at TREC Deep Learning Track 2021 Notebook
Shengyao Zhuang and Hang Li and Shuai Wang and Guido Zuccon. 2021. IELAB at TREC Deep Learning Track 2021. In TREC 2021 Deep Learning Track.
BERT-based Dense Retrievers Require Interpolation with BM25 for Effective Passage Retrieval Short
Shuai Wang and Shengyao Zhuang and Guido Zuccon. 2021. BERT-based Dense Retrievers Require Interpolation with BM25 for Effective Passage Retrieval. In The Proceedings of the 2021 ACM SIGIR on International Conference on Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR 2021).
Services
He has served as a reviewer for the following journal/conference:
- TOIS: ACM Transactions on Information Systems
- ACM ICTIR 2023: ACM International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval