Scholar
Lizi Liao
Google Scholar ID: W2b08EUAAAAJ
Singapore Management University
Citations & Impact
Citations
10,218
H-index
26
i10-index
51
Publications
20
Co-authors
7
list available
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Published research on proactive dialogue systems, automatic ontology expansion, target-driven conversational recommendation, and organized tutorials on proactive conversational agents. Served as Workshop Co-Chairs for ACM Multimedia Asia 2025 and organized workshops in ACM Multimedia 2025. Invited to serve as Associate Editor for TOIS and TOMM.
Research Experience
- Serves as an Assistant Professor at SMU, leading the CoAgent Lab. Research focuses on proactive conversational AI, multimodal conversational search and recommendation, and interdisciplinary applications of conversational AI (e.g., ChatPal, learning companions).
Education
- Ph.D. from NUS, advised by Professor Tat-Seng Chua.
Background
- Assistant Professor and Lee Kong Chian Fellow in the School of Computing and Information Systems at Singapore Management University. Leads the CoAgent Lab, focusing on developing trustworthy conversational and multimodal foundation models that understand context and act proactively—planning ahead, debating, reflecting, and coordinating actions. Research areas include multi-agent training and inference, alignment and evaluation for safety, reliability, and faithfulness, and multimodal reasoning and generation across text, speech, vision, and audio.
Miscellany
- Recruiting 0-2 new PhD students every intake batch, and has multiple positions for summer interns and visiting research students.
