TIME Group

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Our research group — Trustworthy InforMation accEss (TIME) — is part of the Key Laboratory of Network Data Science and Technology, within the State Key Laboratory of AI Safety at the Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

We focus on advancing trustworthy information access, with research spanning Information Retrieval, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, and Large Language Model Alignment guided by the 3H (Honest, Helpful, Harmless) principle. Specifically, our work addresses unstructured and structured text retrieval, multimodal retrieval, LLM knowledge boundary identification, utility-driven and parametric RAG, and evaluation of generated content, among other related directions.


Open Positions

We are looking for self-motivated students to do research with us. Feel free to contact us if you are interested. For more information, please visit the Contact page.

Latest News

Dec 15, 2025 Shiyu has been selected for the 2025 China Association for Science and Technology Young Scientific and Technological Talent Cultivation Program. Congrats!
Oct 27, 2025 Hengran and Lulu have got the National Scholarship. Congrats!
Oct 24, 2025 One papers is accepted by WSDM 2026. Congrats to Wei Huang!
Sep 12, 2025 Two papers are accepted by SIGIR-AP 2025. Congrats to Hengran and Minghao!
Aug 21, 2025 One paper is accepted by CIKM 2025. Congrats to Da Li!
Aug 21, 2025 Three papers are accepted by EMNLP 2025. Congrats to Hengran, Minghao, Zhikai and Da Li!
May 16, 2025 Two papers are accepted by ACL 2025. Congrats to Shiyu and Yuchen!
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