News

Talks, service, awards, and other activities.

Aug 07, 2026 CoNarrate was conditionally accepted to UIST 2026 as first author — on modeling information prematureness and scaffolding patient narratives in asynchronous telehealth. :sparkles:
May 04, 2026 Received the HKUST RedBird Academic Excellence Award for Continuing PhD Students (2025-26).
Apr 13, 2026 Our systematic review From Human Pragmatic Language Skills to Conversational Agent Design appeared at CHI ‘26. :sparkles:
Jan 05, 2026 Visiting the Pervasive HCI Group at Tsinghua University, hosted by Prof. Yuntao Wang, to work on clinician-patient-agent collaboration in post-dentist care.
Aug 25, 2025 Dynamic Prompting Improves Turn-taking in Embodied Spoken Dialogue Systems was published at RO-MAN ‘25.
Jul 30, 2025 A US provisional patent application was filed for Automated Scaffolding System for Neurocognitive Disorder Screening Dialog Tasks (App. No. 63/854,195), jointly with HKUST and CUHK.
Jul 17, 2025 Received the HKUST RedBird Academic Excellence Award for Continuing PhD Students (2024-25).
May 19, 2025 Started a research internship at Microsoft Research Asia with Yun Wang, working on improving telehealth communication.
Apr 26, 2025 Two papers at CHI ‘25: Scaffolded Turns and Logical Conversations and InsightBridge.
Sep 23, 2024 StuGPTViz was published in IEEE TVCG.
Aug 26, 2024 Our RO-MAN 2024 paper on humanoid robot dialogue architecture won the UBTECH Best Industry Application Award (Bronze). :trophy: