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Computer Science
Canada
2025

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Computer Science

D-Index
94
Citations
31227
World Ranking
489
National Ranking
17

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Canada Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Computer Science in Canada Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Canada Leader Award

Overview

Jimmy Lin is affiliated with the University of Waterloo in Canada and specializes in computer science with a notable focus on artificial intelligence. Their scholarly work encompasses a broad range of topics within computer science, including artificial intelligence, computer vision and pattern recognition, and information systems.

Their research agenda extends into specialized subfields such as management science and operations research, and signal processing. Among the central topics addressed in their publications are topic modeling, natural language processing techniques, multimodal machine learning applications, domain adaptation and few-shot learning, information retrieval and search behavior, advanced image and video retrieval techniques, and data quality and management.

Jimmy Lin has contributed extensively to academic literature with key recent papers including:

  • The proper care and feeding of CAMELS: How limited training data affects streamflow prediction, 2020, Environmental Modelling & Software
  • Pretrained Transformers for Text Ranking: BERT and Beyond, 2021, Synthesis lectures on human language technologies
  • Pretrained Transformers for Text Ranking: BERT and Beyond, 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • A Few Brief Notes on DeepImpact, COIL, and a Conceptual Framework for Information Retrieval Techniques, 2021, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Rapidly Bootstrapping a Question Answering Dataset for COVID-19, 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)

They have published heavily on arXiv (Cornell University) with 133 publications, while other notable frequent publication venues include:

  • Proceedings of the 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
  • ACM Transactions on Information Systems
  • Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
  • Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

Jimmy Lin has collaborated repeatedly with several coauthors, notably:

  • Xueguang Ma
  • Ronak Pradeep
  • Sheng-Chieh Lin
  • Rodrigo Nogueira
  • Nandan Thakur

In addition to articles, Jimmy Lin has authored books published by Morgan & Claypool Publishers, including the title Pretrained Transformers for Text Ranking released in 2022.

Best Publications

  • Evaluation of PICO as a Knowledge Representation for Clinical Questions

    Xiaoli Huang;Jimmy J. Lin;Dina Demner-Fushman

  • Data-Intensive Text Processing with MapReduce

    Jimmy Lin;Chris Dyer

  • Searching for SNPs with cloud computing

    Ben Langmead;Ben Langmead;Michael C Schatz;Jimmy Lin;Mihai Pop

  • WTF: the who to follow service at Twitter

    Pankaj Gupta;Ashish Goel;Jimmy Lin;Aneesh Sharma

  • Cloud Computing and Information Policy: Computing in a Policy Cloud?

    Paul T. Jaeger;Jimmy Lin;Justin M. Grimes

  • Distilling Task-Specific Knowledge from BERT into Simple Neural Networks

    Raphael Tang;Yao Lu;Linqing Liu;Lili Mou

  • Web question answering: is more always better?

    Susan Dumais;Michele Banko;Eric Brill;Jimmy Lin

  • Multi-Perspective Sentence Similarity Modeling with Convolutional Neural Networks

    Hua He;Kevin Gimpel;Jimmy Lin

  • Quantitative evaluation of passage retrieval algorithms for question answering

    Stefanie Tellex;Boris Katz;Jimmy Lin;Aaron Fernandes

  • Data-intensive Question Answering

    Eric Brill;Jimmy J. Lin;Michele Banko;Susan T. Dumais

  • Information network or social network?: the structure of the twitter follow graph

    Seth A. Myers;Aneesh Sharma;Pankaj Gupta;Jimmy Lin

  • End-to-End Open-Domain Question Answering with BERTserini

    Wei Yang;Yuqing Xie;Aileen Lin;Xingyu Li

  • Document Ranking with a Pretrained Sequence-to-Sequence Model

    Rodrigo Nogueira;Zhiying Jiang;Jimmy Lin

  • Rainfall–runoff prediction at multiple timescales with a single Long Short-Term Memory network

    Martin Gauch;Martin Gauch;Frederik Kratzert;Daniel Klotz;Grey Nearing;Grey Nearing

  • Overview of the TREC 2007 Question Answering Track

    Hoa Trang Dang;Diane Kelly;Jimmy J. Lin

  • Anserini: Enabling the Use of Lucene for Information Retrieval Research

    Peilin Yang;Hui Fang;Jimmy Lin

  • Answering Clinical Questions with Knowledge-Based and Statistical Techniques

    Dina Demner-Fushman;Jimmy Lin

  • DeeBERT: Dynamic Early Exiting for Accelerating BERT Inference

    Ji Xin;Raphael Tang;Jaejun Lee;Yaoliang Yu

  • PubMed related articles: a probabilistic topic-based model for content similarity.

    Jimmy J. Lin;Jimmy J. Lin;W. John Wilbur

  • Pairwise Document Similarity in Large Collections with MapReduce

    Tamer Elsayed;Jimmy Lin;Douglas Oard

  • Pyserini: A Python Toolkit for Reproducible Information Retrieval Research with Sparse and Dense Representations

    Jimmy Lin;Xueguang Ma;Sheng-Chieh Lin;Jheng-Hong Yang

  • Document Expansion by Query Prediction.

    Rodrigo Nogueira;Wei Yang;Jimmy Lin;Kyunghyun Cho

  • Simple BERT Models for Relation Extraction and Semantic Role Labeling.

    Peng Shi;Jimmy Lin

  • Multi-Stage Document Ranking with BERT.

    Rodrigo Nogueira;Wei Yang;Kyunghyun Cho;Jimmy Lin

  • Elements of a computational model for multi-party discourse: The turn-taking behavior of Supreme Court justices

    Timothy Hawes;Jimmy Lin;Philip Resnik

  • Proceedings of the 2013 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies

    Hua He;Jimmy Lin;Adam Lopez

Frequent Co-Authors

Dina Demner-Fushman
Dina Demner-Fushman National Institutes of Health
Bonnie J. Dorr
Bonnie J. Dorr University of Florida
Charles L. A. Clarke
Charles L. A. Clarke University of Waterloo
Craig Macdonald
Craig Macdonald University of Glasgow
Donald Metzler
Donald Metzler Google (United States)
Douglas W. Oard
Douglas W. Oard University of Maryland, College Park
Iadh Ounis
Iadh Ounis University of Glasgow
Diane Kelly
Diane Kelly University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Kyunghyun Cho
Kyunghyun Cho New York University

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