I’m a first year Ph.D student supervised by Prof. Luu Anh Tuan in the College of Computing and Data Science of Nanyang Technological University(NTU). Prior to that, I received my Master’s degree in Artificial Intelligence system from National University of Singapore (NUS), mentored by Dr. Yongqi Li and Dr. Wenjie Wang, under the supervision of Prof. Tat-Seng Chua.

My research focuses mainly on NLP (LLM reasoning) and Multimodal.

News

• Apr 2025: One papers are accepted by SIGIR 2025!**
• Jan 2025: I start my Ph.D journey at NTU.
• May 2024: One paper is accepted by ACL2024 findings!
• Oct 2023: I joined as a research assistant.

Publication

• Distillation Enhanced Generative Retrieval
  Yongqi Li, Zhen Zhang, Wenjie Wang, Liqiang Nie, Wenjie Li, Tat-Seng Chua
  ACL 2024 Findings (Full) paper | code

• Exploring Training and Inference Scaling Laws in Generative Retrieval
  Hongru Cai, Yongqi Li, Ruifeng Yuan, Wenjie Wang, Zhen Zhang, Wenjie Li, Tat-Seng Chua
  SIGIR 2025 (Full) Paper | Code

Experience

Research Assistant
NExT++, National University of Singapore.
Mainly worked on Generative Retrieval with Dr. Yongqi Li and Dr. Wenjie Wang.
Advisor: Prof. Tat-Seng Chua.
Oct 2023 - October 2024

Professional Services

Reviewer of ACL 2025, SIGIR 2025, KDD 2025