Hongning Wang and his group of four students earned the Best Paper Award at the 42nd International ACM SIGIR Conference.The 42nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval was held July 21 to 25, 2019 in Paris, France.
Professor Hongning Wang and his group Huazheng Wang (PhD student), Sonwoo Kim (Masters student), Eric McCord-Snook (recent BSCS grad), and Qingyun Wu (PhD student) won the Best Paper award for their paper “Variance Reduction in Gradient Exploration for Online Learning to Rank”.