Scholar
Hainiu Xu (许海牛)
Google Scholar ID: Rbei2l4AAAAJ
PhD Student, King's College London
Citations & Impact
Citations
244
H-index
8
i10-index
6
Publications
14
Co-authors
15
list available
Publications
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- - When Thinking Backfires: Mechanistic Insights into Reasoning-Induced Misalignment, Authors: Hanqi Yan*, Hainiu Xu* et al., Arxiv, 2025
- - Modeling Subjectivity in Cognitive Appraisal with Language Models, Authors: Yuxiang Zhou*, Hainiu Xu* et al., Findings of EMNLP 2025, 2025
- - EnigmaToM: Improve LLMs' Theory-of-Mind Reasoning Capabilities with Neural Knowledge Base of Entity States, Authors: Hainiu Xu, Yulan He et al., Findings of ACL 2025, 2025
- * indicates equal contribution
Research Experience
- - Research Intern, Huawei London Research Centre, June 2024 - September 2024
- - AI Engineer Intern, Schlumberger, September 2020 - May 2021
Education
- - Ph.D. in Computer Science, King's College London, 2024 - Present, Supervisors: Prof. Yulan He (primary), Prof. Caroline Catmur (secondary), Dr. Jinhua Du (secondary)
- - M.S.E. in Data Science, University of Pennsylvania, 2021 - 2023, Supervisor: Prof. Chris Callison-Burch
- - B.S. in Statistics, University of California, Davis, 2016 - 2020, Supervisor: Prof. Jane-Ling Wang
Background
- I am currently a second-year PhD student at King's College London, affiliated with KCL NLP. My research interest is Character-Centric Narrative Understanding, Theory-of-Mind in particular. My study is supported by an EPSRC-iCASE project jointly funded by UKRI, Huawei London Research Centre, and King's College London.
Miscellany
- I can be best reached via email at hainiu.xu [AT] kcl.ac.uk.
