Jianxun Lian
Scholar

Jianxun Lian

Google Scholar ID: tSq7dIkAAAAJ
Microsoft Research Asia
LLM AgentAnthropomorphic IntelligenceUser ModelingRecommendation System
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
6,193
 
H-index
27
 
i10-index
47
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
11
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • 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.