Haodong Chen
Room 634, General Purpose South, The University of Queensland, BNE, QLD, AU, 4066
Hi there!👋 I am a first-year PhD student in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at The University of Queensland (UQ), Brisbane, Australia.
I am a proud recipient of a full PhD scholarship from the Queensland Digital Health Centre (QDHeC). My research is conducted as a member of the Information Engineering Lab (ieLab) group, and I am supervised by Dr. Teerapong Leelanupab and Prof. Guido Zuccon.
I hold a Master of Engineering Science degree from UQ, completed in July 2025.
I study the co-design of retrieval and reasoning in agentic systems: how retrieval can better serve agent workflows, and how agents can more strategically exploit retrieval.
Beyond research, I also serve as a tutor for DATA7901 / DATA7903 – Data Science Capstone Project and INFS7203 – Data Mining.
news
| Apr 08, 2026 | 🔥 Our paper “Where Relevance Emerges: A Layer-Wise Study of Internal Attention for Zero-Shot Re-Ranking” has been accepted at SIGIR 2026! |
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| Aug 31, 2025 | 📑 Our paper “Beyond GeneGPT: A Multi-Agent Architecture with Open-Source LLMs for Enhanced Genomic Question Answering” has been accepted at SIGIR-AP 2025! |
| Jul 15, 2025 | 🧑💻 Thrilled to begin my PhD journey! |
| Jul 12, 2025 | 🎉 Excited to announce that I have been awarded a full PhD scholarship from UQ. |
| Jul 08, 2025 | 🥇 Honored to receive the Dean’s Commendation for Academic Excellence Award. |