Chenyan Xiong

Chenyan Xiong is an Associate Professor at Language Technologies Institute (LTI), Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). He was at Microsoft Research from 2018 to 2023, where he worked on conversational search, dense retrieval, healthcare AI, and large scale pretraining, with both scientific contributions and real-world impact across various Microsoft products. He obtained his Ph.D. at LTI, CMU, in 2018, advised by Jamie Callan. Back then he mainly worked on bringing in knowledge graphs and deep learning techniques to search engines. Before coming to the US, he completed his undergraduate study at Wuhan University, China, in 2009, a master’s degree at the Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Science, in 2012, and spent two years interning at Microsoft Research Asia in Tie-Yan Liu’s group.