Recently, the 2021 Excellent Doctoral Dissertations Award ofChinese Information Processing Society of China (CIPS) was conferred atthe 9th National Congress of CIPS, and the 40th Annual Academic Meeting of CIPS. The dissertation ofFan Zhang, Special Associate Researcher at our School, was in the list of the excellent doctoral dissertations of CIPS. The title ofFan Zhang’sdissertation is Research on Off-line Evaluation Method of Information Retrieval Based on User Behavior Model.

Fan Zhang got his doctor degree fromTsinghua University with a major in Computer Science and Technology. His research fields include information retrieval evaluation, user behavior analysis, etc. At present, his research interests mainly focus on the evaluation method and evaluation index construction of interactive information retrieval, and he has published more than 10 papers in top journals and conferences in information retrieval fields such as TOIS, SIGIR, WWW, WSDM, etc. He has won the Best Student Paper Award and the Best Paper Nomination Award of SIGIR, 2021 Beijing Outstanding Graduates, etc. He is currently the communication member of the Information Retrieval Committee of theChinese Information Processing Society of China,and he is reviewer of several international academic journals and conferences.

Chinese Information Processing Society of China is a mass organization of scientific and technological workers under the leadership of the Party, and it is a national first-class society with independent society legal personality. The subject of Chinese Information Processing is a new frontier subject based on Linguistics, Computer Application Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Psychology, Mathematics and other related subjects. The selection of 2021 excellent doctoral dissertations of CIPS started in May this year. After application, format review, preliminary expert examination, initial examination publicity and final expert examination, 6 people won the 2021 Excellent Doctoral Dissertations Award of Chinese Information Processing Society of China (CIPS), and 3 people won the Excellent Doctoral Dissertations Nomination Award.