Keping Bi
毕可平
Associate Professor
Institute of Computing Technology (ICT)
Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
NO. 6 Kexueyuan South Road
Haidian District, Beijing, 100190
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Keping Bi, Associate Professor at Institute of Computing Technology (ICT), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
My research primarily focuses on Information Retrieval, with a special emphasis on dense retrieval, conversational search, and the emerging field of retrieval-augmented generation. Additionally, I am deeply interested in Trustworthy AI, particularly in relation to information-seeking systems, such as unbiased learning, model robustness, and implicit bias evaluation. I earned my Ph.D. from the College of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of Massachusetts (UMass) Amherst, under the guidance of Professor W. Bruce Croft at the Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval (CIIR). I also hold two master’s degrees—one in computer science from UMass Amherst and another in machine intelligence from Peking University—and a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Nankai University.
Recruiting
I’m recruiting self-motivated master students who are interested in conducting innovative research. Undergraduate students who are willing to pursue a Ph.D. or master degree in Institute of Computing Technology CAS or abroad are welcome to do internships in my group. If you are interested, please send your resume to my email address (bikeping[at]ict.ac.cn) and include your research interests and your future plan.
News
- Dec. 2025: Shiyu has been selected for the 2025 China Association for Science and Technology Young Scientific and Technological Talent Cultivation Program-Doctoral Track (中国科协青年科技人才培育工程博士生专项计划). Congrats!
- Dec. 2025: SIGIR-AP 2025 has successfully concluded in Xi’an, and I summarized the event in this article.
- Nov. 2025: I gave a keynote talk in the International Workshop on Multimodal Generative Search and Recommendation in CIKM 2025. The slides can be found on our group website Smarter Retrieval for Smarter Generation–When and How to Retrieve for Retrieval-Augmented Generation.
- Oct. 2025: I will serve as a SIGIR Forum Co-Editor for a three-year term.
- Oct. 2025: 2 students I supervised got national scholarship (Hengran and Lulu). Congrats!
- Oct. 2025: 1 paper accepted by WSDM 2026.
- Sep. 2025: 2 papers accepted by SIGIR-AP 2025.
- Aug. 2025: 1 paper accepted by CIKM 2025.
- Aug. 2025: 3 papers accepted by EMNLP 2025 (2 main, 1 findings).
- May 2025: 2 papers accepted to ACL 2025 (1 main, 1 findings).
- Mar. 2025: I am serving as a tutorial co-chair of NLPCC 2025.
- Feb. 2025: I am serving as a general co-chair of SIGIR-AP 2025! Welcome your submissions!
Experience
- Associate Professor at Institute of Computing Technology (ICT), CAS, Beijing, China, Oct. 2024 - now
- Assistant Professor at Institute of Computing Technology (ICT), CAS, Beijing, China, Oct. 2022 - Oct. 2024
- Microsoft Search Intelligence & Assistant, Applied Scientist II, USA, July 2021 - August 2022
- University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Research Assistant in CIIR, advised by Prof. W. Bruce Croft. Amherst, MA, USA, Sept. 2015 - Jul. 2021
- Microsoft Research and MSAI, joint Research Intern, mentored by Dr. Pavel Metrikov and Dr. Chunyuan Li, Remote Internship, USA, July 2020 - August 2020
- Microsoft Research and MSAI, joint Research Intern, mentored by Dr. Rahul Jha and Dr. Asli Celikyilmaz, Bellevue, WA, USA, May 2019 - August 2019
- Amazon Search, Research Scientist Intern in Search Labs, mentored by Dr. Choon Hui Teo, Palo Alto, CA, USA, May 2018 - August 2018
- Baidu Web Search, Senior Research Engineer at Learning to Rank Group, Beijing, China, July 2012 - July 2015
- Yahoo! Labs, Intern Scientist, supervised by Dr. Xin Fan, Beijing, China, June 2012 - July 2012
- Microsoft Research Asia, Research Intern at Information Retrieval and Mining Group, mentored by Dr. Yunhua Hu and Dr. Hang Li, Beijing, China, May 2010 - Feb. 2011
Honors&Awards
- National-level Young Talent, 2023
- New Hundred Stars Talent Program, ICT (top 4), 2022
- Travel Grants:
- SIGIR’21 Student Travel Grant;
- WWW’21 Student Scholarship;
- SIGIR’20 Student Travel Grant;
- CIKM’19 Student Travel Grant; ECIR’19 Student Travel Grant;
- SIGIR’18 Travel Grant;
- Baidu Highest Award Nomination (top 10/180+, $1 million reward for teams of 10- members), 2014
Academic Services
- SIGIR Forum Co-Editor
- SIGIR-AP 2025 General Co-chair
- NLPCC 2025 Tutorial Co-chair
- SIGIR-AP 2023 Registration Chair
- Area Chair
- Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING), 2024
- ACL Rolling Review (ARR) 2025 (Oct.), 2026 (Jan.)
- PC member / Reviewer:
- International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR), (short) 2022, (long&short) 2023, (long) 2025, (long) 2026
- ACL Rolling Review (ARR) 2024 (Feb., June, Oct.), 2025 (Feb., May)
- The International Conference on Learning Representations, 2026
- European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR), (long) 2026
- ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM), (short) 2026
- ACM SIGIR Information Retrieval in the Asia Pacific (SIGIR-AP) workshop proposal committee, 2025
- ACM Web Conference (formerly known as International World Wide Web Conference, WWW), (long) 2025
- ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), (short) 2020, (short&long)2021, (long)2022, (long&short) 2023, (long&short) 2024, (long) 2025
- WSDM Workshop on Deep Matching in Practical Applications (DAPA), 2019
- International Conference on Computer Science and Application Engineering (CSAE), 2019
- Journal Reviewer
- ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS), 2019, 2020, 2021, 2025
- International Journal of Data Science and Analytics (IJDSA), 2025
- Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST), 2023
- Data & Knowledge Engineering (DKE) 2022
- Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), 2020
- IEEE Access, 2019