Dr. Rui Yan was a tenure-track assistant professor and PhD advisor at Wangxuan Institute of Computer Technology, Peking University. He was selected as a Young Fellow at Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI) and a Startrack scholar at Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA). He joined Gaoling School of Artificial Intelligence, Renmin University of China, as a tenured associate professor. Till now, he has published 100+ publications with 4,000+ citations. He often serves as an area chair/senior PC member for various first-tier international venues. He has been invited to give tutorial talks for a series of top international conferences. His research interests include natural language processing, information retrieval, text mining, machine learning and artificial intelligence.