Ph.D. The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China, 2018-2023.
B.E. Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China, 2013-2017.

I am a Research Assistant Professor in Department of Computing, PolyU. My current research interest is integrating personality and emotion into LLM-based dialog systems to enable conversational AI to generate human-like responses.

I got my Ph.D. under the supervision of Prof. Jiannong Cao in 2023 (Defense slide).

During my Ph.D. study, I visited (duration: 2021.09.01~2022.03.01) the THUNLP lab in Tsinghua University, under the supervision of Prof. Maosong Sun.

Before that, I had a 5-month internship at Huawei, Shenzhen; Dr. Jieming Zhu was my mentor. We conducted research on semantic matching and design and apply algorithm for duplicated bug report detection.

Previously, I was a research assistant at InPlusLab, Sun Yat-sen University, under the supervision of Prof. Zibin Zheng.

Journal Editorship

- Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems (IEEE TCSS)

Conference Organization

- Local Chair of The 12th International Conference on Behavioural and Social Computing (BESC’25)

Conference and Journal Review

- Program Committee Member of WWW'25

- Reviewer of ACL Rolling Review (ARR)

- Reviewer of AP-Web'25, ISCC'20, IJCAI'19, AAAI'19, and IEEE BigData'19

- Reviewer of ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology

- Reviewer of ACM Transactions on Information Systems

- Reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Computers

- Reviewer of Information Processing & Management

Zhiyuan Wen, Jiannong Cao, Zian Wang*, Beichen Guo*, Ruosong Yang, Shuaiqi Liu. InteractiveSurvey: An LLM-based Personalized and Interactive Survey Paper Generation System // Arxiv Preprint, (Demo Video) (* Equal Contribution)

Zhiyuan Wen, Yu Yang, Jiannong Cao, Haoming Sun, Ruosong Yang, Shuaiqi Liu. Self-assessment, Exhibition, and Recognition: a Review of Personality in Large Language Models // Arxiv Preprint

Shuaiqi Liu, Jiannong Cao, Yicong Li, Ruosong Yang, Zhiyuan Wen* . Low-resource court judgment summarization for common law systems[J] // Information Processing & Management. IPM (CCF-B, 中科院一区) PDF ( * Corresponding Author)

Zhiyuan Wen, Jiannong Cao, Jiaxing Shen, Ruosong Yang, Shuaiqi Liu, and Maosong Sun. Personality-affected Emotion Generation in Dialog Systems [J] // Transactions of Information Systems. TOIS (CCF-A)

Zhiyuan Wen, Jiannong Cao, Yu Yang, Ruosong Yang, Shuaiqi Liu. Affective-NLI: Towards Accurate and Interpretable Personality Recognition in Conversation [C] // IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications 2024. PerCom 2024 (CCF-B)

Zhiyuan Wen, Jiannong Cao, Yu Yang, Haoli Wang, Ruosong Yang, Shuaiqi Liu. DesPrompt: Personality-descriptive Prompt Tuning for Few-shot Personality Recognition[J] // Information Processing & Management. IPM (CCF-B, 中科院一区) PDF

Zhiyuan Wen, Jiannong Cao, Ruosong Yang, Shuaiqi Liu, Jiaxing Shen. Automatically Select Emotion for Response via Personality-affected Emotion Transition[C] // Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Findings of ACL-IJCNLP 2021 (CCF-A) PDF

Zhiyuan Wen, Jiannong Cao, Ruosong Yang, Senzhang Wang. Decode with Template: Content Preserving Sentiment Transfer[C] // The 12th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. LREC 2020 PDF

Yu Yang*, Zhiyuan Wen*, Jiannong Cao, Jiaxing Shen, Hongzhi Yin, Xiaofang Zhou. EPARS: Early Prediction of At-risk Students with Online and Offline Learning Behaviors[C] // 25th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications. DASFAA 2020 (CCF-B) PDF (* Equal Contribution)

Best Presentation Award at PolyU Research Student Conference 2023 (PRSC 2023)

Guest Lecturer on Lecture 9 Data Analysis based on Text Inputs 2 (Lecture Slide, PPT), COMP 5152: Advanced Data Analytics, PolyU, Spring 2024

Teaching Assistant, COMP4146: Computational Finance, PolyU, Spring 2021

Teaching Assistant, COMP1011: Programming Fundamentals, PolyU, Spring 2020

Teaching Assistant, COMP4133: Information Retrieval, PolyU, Spring 2019

Teaching Assistant, COMP3011: Design and Analysis of Algorithms, PolyU, Fall 2020, Fall 2019, Fall 2018

Half Marathon @ Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon 2023

Half Marathon @ Bank of China (HK) Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge (HK Section) Half Marathon 2023

Marathon @ Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon 2024

Thanks to Vasilios Mavroudis for the template!