Biography

Hao Zhang (张豪) is a Principal Engineer at Noah’s Ark Lab, Singapore Research Center, Huawei International, working in large language models and its application to RAG. He obtained his Ph.D. from the College of Computing and Data Science at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore in July 2022, advised by Prof. Aixin SUN. Before, he received Master’s degree from the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at NTU in June 2016. He obtained his Bachelor’s degree from Dalian University of Technology (DLUT) in July 2015.

His broad research interests include natural language processing, vision-language learning, and machine learning. To be specific, his research topics include Large Language Models, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, Multimodal LLM, and etc.

Research Community Services:
Reviewer: ACL Rolling Review (2023-), ICLR 2024-2025, WWW 2024, KDD 2024, ACL 2019-2023, IJCAI 2023-2024, EMNLP 2023, MM 2023, COLING 2022-2023, SIGIR 2021-2022, AAAI 2021
Co-organizer: Interactive Recommendation System Workshop, WSDM 2023

Interests
  • Large Language Models
  • Multimodal LLMs
  • Retrieval-Augmented Generation
  • Vision-Language Learning
Education

  • PhD in Computer Science, 2019-2022

    Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

  • MSc in Communications Engineering, 2015-2016

    Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

  • BEng in Communications Engineering, 2011-2015

    Dalian University of Technology, China

Experience

 
 
 
 
 
Principal Engineer
Noah’s Ark Lab, Singapore Research Center (2012 Laboratories), Huawei International
July 2022 – August 2024 Singapore
Working on Pangu LLM SFT, Retrieval-augmented Generation, Agent, LLM for Rec, etc.
 
 
 
 
 
Senior Research Engineer
Agency for Science, Technology and Research
June 2018 – May 2022 Singapore

Senior Research Engineer/Principal Investigator, Centre for Frontier AI Research, Jan 2022 - May 2022

Research Engineer, Institute of High Performance Computing, Jun 2018 - Dec 2021

 
 
 
 
 
Research Associate
Temasek Laboratories, Nanyang Technological University
July 2016 – May 2018 Singapore

Publications

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Jing Jin, Houfeng Wang, Hao Zhang, Xiaoguang Li, Zhijiang Guo (2024). DVD: Dynamic Contrastive Decoding for Knowledge Amplification in Multi-Document Question Answering. In EMNLP.

PDF Cite Code 📌EMNLP'24

Zehan Qi, Rongwu Xu, Zhijiang Guo, Cunxiang Wang, Hao Zhang, Wei Xu (2024). LONG2RAG: Evaluating Long-Context & Long-Form Retrieval-Augmented Generation with Key Point Recall. In EMNLP.

Preprint PDF Cite Code 📌EMNLP'24

Kuicai Dong, Derrick Goh Xin Deik, Yi Quan Lee, Hao Zhang, Xiangyang Li, Cong Zhang, Yong Liu (2024). Multi-view Content-aware Indexing for Long Document Retrieval. In EMNLP.

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Zhongzhou Liu, Hao Zhang, Kuicai Dong, Yuan Fang (2024). Collaborative Cross-modal Fusion with Large Language Model for Recommendation. In CIKM.

Preprint PDF Cite DOI 📌CIKM'24

Huanshuo Liu, Bo Chen, Menghui Zhu, Jianghao Lin, Jiarui Qin, Yang Yang, Hao Zhang, Ruiming Tang (2024). Retrieval-Oriented Knowledge for Click-Through Rate Prediction. In CIKM.

Preprint PDF Cite Code DOI 📌CIKM'24

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