CV

Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering

• Advised by Prof. Xiaojuan Ma and Prof. Fugee Tsung.
• Research on human-agent interaction, conversational agents, and humanoid robots for medical services.
• CGA 3.85 / 4.30.

B.Sc. in Computer Science; B.Sc. in Data Science and Technology (second major)

• Graduated with First Class Honours.
• CGA 3.84 / 4.30; major CGA 3.89 / 4.30.

International Summer Campus (virtual exchange)

Visiting Student Researcher

• Led an independent project on post-dentist care service.
• Analyzed user patterns and designed working strategies for clinician-patient-agent collaboration.
• Supervised by Prof. Yuntao Wang.

Research Intern

• Led an independent project to improve telehealth communication; analyzed 5,000+ encounters.
• Developed a taxonomy of information-delivery failures and built an algorithm that significantly accelerated communication (statistically validated).
• Supervised by Yun Wang.

Research and Development of Artificial Intelligence in Extraction and Identification of Spoken Language Biomarkers for Screening and Monitoring of Neurocognitive Disorders

• Contributed to an intelligent screening system for cognitive impairment, focusing on spoken language biomarker extraction and identification for early detection and monitoring.
• Patent application in progress under the project.

Frontier and Human-centric AI and Robotics Technology for Geriatric Care

• Participated in the design and framework development of human-robot conversational systems for elderly care applications.
• Produced two co-first-author papers at IEEE RO-MAN (2024, 2025) and one first-author paper at ACM CHI 2025.

An Automated Scaffolding System for Neurocognitive Disorder Screening Dialog Tasks

• A scaffolding conversational agent system for automated neurocognitive disorder screening, designed for better usability and user engagement.
• Application No. 63/854,195, filed 30 July 2025. Co-assigned to HKUST and CUHK.
• {"Inventors"=>"Helen Mei Ling Meng, Xiaojuan Ma, Jiaxiong Hu, Dingdong Liu, Ka Ho Wong."}

Conversational Agents and Healthcare (invited)

• Represented the Department of Computer Science and Engineering.

Conversational Agents and Human-Agent Interaction (invited)

• Hosted by Yanjun Lyu and Wenchao Zhang.

Exchange paper presentation (交流论文)

Scaffolded Turns and Logical Conversations: Designing Humanized LLM-Powered Conversational Agents for Hospital Admission Interviews

• Conference paper presentation.

Exploring Scaffolding Techniques for Agent-Administered Brief Cognitive Screening in Hospital Settings

• Poster presentation.

Teaching Assistant, COMP1023 Introduction to Python Programming

Teaching Assistant, COMP2211 Exploring Artificial Intelligence

Teaching Assistant, COMP1022P Introduction to Computing with Java

Teaching Assistant, COMP4461 Human-Computer Interaction and CSIT6000N Advanced Topics in HCI

Reviewer, ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Reviewer, ACM CHI Late-Breaking Work

Reviewer, ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS)

Reviewer, ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW)

Special Recognition for Outstanding Review

Person in Charge, Peer Mentor Program

• Designed a two-week orientation program hosting more than 300 first-year students.
• Led over 100 senior students providing support and guidance during the program.

General Secretary

• HKUST RedBird Academic Excellence Award for Continuing PhD Students, 2025-26

• HKUST RedBird Academic Excellence Award for Continuing PhD Students, 2024-25

• UBTECH Best Industry Application Award (Bronze), IEEE RO-MAN 2024
• HKUST RedBird Academic Excellence Award for Continuing PhD Students, 2023-24

• University Scholarship - Postgraduate Studentship (PGS), HKUST

• Undergraduate: University Scholarship - Kerry Holdings Limited Scholarship, HKUST; Dean's List (five times); Second Place, Best Strategy - Joint-University Algo Trading Challenge (2021); Top 5%, Google Hash Code (2020).

Student Research Assistant

• Collected and cleaned financial reports, share ownership, and stock data of Hong Kong listed companies to identify family businesses.
• Supervised by Prof. Winnie Peng.

Team Leader

• Led a team to design a novel trading algorithm for the forex market, using an LSTM model to trade multiple asset markets on a high-frequency basis.
• Second place in Best Strategy.

Assistant Project Manager

• Project modeling and refinement to achieve CMMI level 5.
• Analyzed 5 major projects from the past 3 years, each with over 5 million in investment.
• Advised on the engineering process, achieving a 5% efficiency improvement by year end.