He has published in leading venues including KDD, ACL, NeurIPS, WebConf, and SIGIR, and serves actively as a reviewer for these communities.
Research Experience
Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research Asia. His main research areas include artificial intelligence, search and information retrieval, and social sciences.
Education
He received his Ph.D. from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC).
Background
His research spans human-like (anthropomorphic) intelligence in LLMs, AI agents, and recommender systems, with a recent focus on socially intelligent agents that interact, collaborate, and support people across various scenarios like household, gaming, workplace, and scientific simulation contexts.
Miscellany
[Hiring interns] He is looking for self-motivated and ambitious students to conduct impactful research with him. If interested in the MSRA internship under his supervision, one can contact him via jianxun.lian@microsoft.com.