Yutao Zhu is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Gaoling School of Artificial Intelligence, Renmin University of China. He earned his PhD from University of Montreal, where he was mentored by Prof. Jian-Yun Nie. He completed his master’s (2019) and bachelor’s (2016) degrees at Renmin University of China, under the guidance of Prof. Zhicheng Dou and Prof. Ji-Rong Wen, delving into various NLP challenges. His research interests include retrieval-augmented generation, large language models for information retrieval, and session-based document ranking.