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Research Assistant Professor
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
(Curriculum Vitae)

Email: zyuanwen@polyu.edu.hk
Office: PQ 831, Mong Man Wai Building

Education Background

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

Research Experience

I am a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Computing, PolyU. My current research interest is LLM-based Multi-agent Systems, AI in Education, and AI in Healthcare. Meanwhile, I am also interested in 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.


News

  1. Our paper SurveyLens: A Research Discipline-Aware Benchmark for Automatic Survey Generation has been accepted by EMNLP 2026. CCF-B

  2. Our paper PS2: Parameterized Control for Fine-Grained Student Proficiency Simulation has been accepted by CIKM 2026. CCF-B

  3. Our project PolyInterview: A Multi-Agent Interview Practice Platform for Communication Education won the Champion award in Stream 2 – โ€œChallengeโ€ at the 2nd International Competition on AI in Education 2026.

  4. Our paper FOCAL: Filtered On-device Continuous Activity Logging for Efficient Personal Desktop Summarization has been accepted by ACM MM 2026. CCF-A


Teaching Experience

  • Lecturer, COMP 4431: Artificial Intelligence, PolyU, Fall 2025
  • Guest Lecturer, 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

Selected Awards


Running

  • Marathon @ Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon 2026
  • Marathon @ Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon 2024
  • Half Marathon @ Bank of China (HK) Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge (HK Section) Half Marathon 2023
  • Half Marathon @ Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon 2023

Thanks to Vasilios Mavroudis for the template!