I'm a research assistant in the Database System Group at University of Waterloo, working on information retrieval and recommender systems.
Since 2013, I have written internal and hobby projects in Python and Django Framework. Some of my code are open-source and available in my Github account.
Haotian Zhang, Mustafa Abualsaud, Nimesh Ghelani, Mark Smucker, Gordon Cormack and Maura Grossman. Effective User Interaction for High-Recall Retrieval: Less is More. In CIKM '18. [PDF] [DOI]
Mustafa Abualsaud, Nimesh Ghelani, Haotian Zhang, Mark Smucker, Gordon Cormack and Maura Grossman. A System for Efficient High-Recall Retrieval. In SIGIR '18. [PDF] [DOI]
Haotian Zhang, Mustafa Abualsaud, and Mark D. Smucker. 2018. A Study of Immediate Requery Behavior in Search. In CHIIR '18. [PDF] [DOI]
Jimmy Lin, Salman Mohammed, Royal Sequiera, Luchen Tan, Nimesh Ghelani, Mustafa Abualsaud, Richard McCreadie, Dmitrijs Milajevs, and Ellen Voorhees. Overviewof the TREC 2017 Real-Time Summarization Track. In TREC '17. [PDF]
Haotian Zhang, Mustafa Abualsaud, Nimesh Ghelani, Angshuman Ghosh, Mark Smucker, Gordon Cormack and Maura Grossman. UWaterlooMDS at the TREC 2017 Common Core Track. In TREC '17. [PDF]
