Zhengyuan Liu
Scholar

Zhengyuan Liu

Google Scholar ID: tqzidGsAAAAJ
Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R) - A*STAR; IEEE Senior Member.
Natural Language ProcessingArtificial IntelligenceHuman-Centered AI
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
1,084
 
H-index
18
 
i10-index
27
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
5
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • - Publications:
  • - “Persuasion Dynamics in LLMs: Investigating Robustness and Adaptability in Knowledge and Safety with DuET-PD” published in EMNLP 2025.
  • - “CCL-XCoT: An Efficient Cross-Lingual Knowledge Transfer Method for Mitigating Hallucination Generation” published in EMNLP 2025.
  • - “COGENT: A Curriculum-oriented Framework for Generating Grade-appropriate Educational Content” presented at BEA 2025.
  • - “SingaKids: A Multilingual Multimodal Dialogic Tutor for Language Learning” presented at ACL 2025 (Oral).
  • - “Reinforcing Compositional Retrieval: Retrieving Step-by-Step for Composing Informative Contexts” published in ACL 2025.
  • - “Scaling Up Collaborative Dialogue Analysis: An AI-driven Approach to Understanding Dialogue Patterns in Computational Thinking Education” published in LAK 2025.
  • - “CrossIn: An Efficient Instruction Tuning Approach for Cross-Lingual Knowledge Alignment” won the Best Paper Award at SumEval@COLING 2025.
  • - “Learning planning-based reasoning by trajectories collection and process reward synthesizing” won the Outstanding Paper Award at EMNLP 2024.
  • - “Personality-aware Student Simulation for Conversational Intelligent Tutoring Systems” presented at EMNLP 2024.
  • - “Optimizing Code-Switching in Conversational Tutoring Systems: A Pedagogical Framework and Evaluation” presented at SIGDIAL 2024.
  • - “CRAFT: Extracting and Tuning Cultural Instructions from the Wild” won the Best Paper Award at C3NLP@ACL2024.
  • - “Scaffolding Language Learning via Multi-modal Tutoring Systems with Pedagogical Instructions” presented at IEEE CAI 2024.
  • - “Joint Dialogue Topic Segmentation and Categorization: A Case Study on Clinical Spoken Conversations” won the Outstanding Paper Award at EMNLP 2023.
  • - “Learning from Bootstrapping and Stepwise Reinforcement Reward: A Semi-Supervised Framework for Text Style Transfer” presented at NAACL 2022.
Research Experience
  • - Asst. Head of the AI4EDU Programme
  • - Tech Lead of Multimodal Generative AI Group
  • - Institute for Infocomm Research, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore
Background
  • - Research Interests: Multimodal and Multilingual Foundation Models, Generative AI for Education, Healthcare, and Life Science, Accessibility, Reliability, and Explainability for Human-Centered AI.
Miscellany
  • - Personal Interests: Open to collaboration or internship applications (remote internships are also welcome). Reach out via email.