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Jian-Yun Nie Author & Editor

Jian-Yun Nie is a professor at the Computer Science Department at the University of Montreal. He obtained a Ph.D. in computer science (specialization in IR) in 1990 from Universite Joseph Fourier of Grenoble, France, and a B.Ing. in computer science from the Institute of Technology of Nanjing (now Southeast University), China. His research has been focused on IR and NLP. Since his Ph.D. studies, he has worked on IR in different languages, CLIR, IR models, and statistical natural language analysis. He has published more than 150 research papers in these areas in journals and conferences. He has been a PC member of a large number of conferences. He will serve as a general co-chair of the ACM-SIGIR conference in 2011. He is currently on the editorial board of seven international journals. He has been an invited professor and researcher at several universities and companies.