I am a tenure-track assistant professor of Computer Science at NYU Shanghai, affiliated with the Computer Science Department at New York University. I have been honored to be selected for multiple Shanghai talent programs, including Shanghai Pearl Elite Talent, Pujiang Talent, Magnolia Talent, and Oriental Talent Awards. I also fortunately serve on the NYU Shanghai's University-Level AI & Innovation Committee.

I broadly pursue interdisciplinary research connecting AI/ML with HCI/Social Computing. Specifically, I initiated the research on Bidirectional Human-AI Alignment (NeurIPS 2025 Tutorial | CHI 2026 Workshop | NeurIPS 2025 Position Paper | ICLR & CHI 2025 Workshop | NYU Shanghai Course). My research aims to:

"Maximizing Capabilities AND Minimizing Risks in Human-AI Co-Evolution"

My study enables humans to interactively explain, audit, and collaborate with agentic AI (Align Humans with AI), while integrates human feedback and values to improve agentic AI (Align AI with Humans), achieving a complete loop of Bidirectional Humans↔AI Alignment. I was a Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of Washington iSchool and RAISE Center (2024-2025), and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University of Michigan UMSI and CSE (2023-2024). I obtained my Ph.D. degree at Penn State (2019-2023). I also interned in Google Research (now Google DeepMind) and Amazon Alexa AI (now Amazon AGI). Deeply grateful for my mentors, collaborators, and students🧡!

2026-01 Received the prestigious Google Gemini Academic Program Award to support our BiAlign research with Gemini Model!!

2026-01 Organizing our CHI 2026 BiAlign Workshop with our amazing collaborators!

2025-12 Truly honored to receive four talent program awards from Shanghai in 2025: Shanghai Pearl Elite Talent Award, Pujiang Talent Award, Magnolia Talent Award, and Oriental Talent Award. Many thanks!

2025-12 Gave an invited talk at ASRU 2025 @ Hawaii on human-centered alignment in Speech LLMs.

2025-12 Attending NeurIPS 2025 @ San Diego for one Human-AI Alignment Tutorial, and two papers: Towards Bidirectional Human-AI Alignment and Deep Value Benchmark.

2025-11 Mind the Value-Action Gap has been awarded as the Outstanding Paper Award at EMNLP 2025 !

2025-11 Attending EMNLP 2025 @ Suzhou to present two papers: Mind the Value-Action Gap and ValueCompass.

2025-10 Attending COLM 2025 @ Montreal to support our Epistemic Alignment work.

2025-09 Our Bidirectional Human-AI Alignment paper is accepted by NeurIPS 2025 Postion Track (<6% Acceptance Rate)!

2025-10 Attending Human Flourishing with AI workshop @MIT Media Lab.

2025-09 I'm co-chairing the WiNLP Workshop @ EMNLP 2025 and attend EMNLP 2025 in person to organize!

2025-09 Our Mind the Value-Action Gap paper is accepted by EMNLP 2025 Main!

2025-09 Our Deep Value Benchmark paper is accepted by NeurIPS 2025 Spotlight!

2025-09 Our ValueCompass paper is accepted by EMNLP 2025 WiNLP Workshop!

2025-09 Attended AI Welfare Symposium @University of Hong Kong to discuss amazing book written Google DeepMind scientists!

2025-09 Teaching a new course: Bidirectional Human-AI Alignment @NYU Shanghai.

2025-09 Serve in Research Development Committee of Computer Science @NYU Shanghai.

2025-09 Starting Assistant Professor of Computer Science @NYU Shanghai.

2025-08 Human-AI Alignment Tutorial accepted @NeurIPS 2025.

2025-08 Mind the Value-Action Gap paper accepted @EMNLP 2025 Main.

2025-08 Gave a talk on Bidirectional Alignment & Value Alignment @UC Berkeley Agentic AI Summit

2025-08 Serving as Associate Chair @CHI 2026

2025-08 Serving as a PC member @AAAI 2026, AAAI AI Alignment Track

Selected Honors/Awards

Google Gemini Academic Program Award, ($50,000, Single PI), Google DeepMind, 2026

Outstanding Paper Award, (Mind the Value-Action Gap Paper), (Top 1%, First-Author), EMNLP 2025

Pujiang Talent Award, (￥300,000, Single PI), Shanghai, China, 2025

Oriental Talent Award, (￥600,000, Single PI), Shanghai, China, 2025

Magnolia Talent Award, (￥750,000, Single PI),Shanghai, China, 2025

Pearl Elite Talent Award, (￥500,000, Single PI),Shanghai, China, 2025

Best Paper, (HypoCompass Paper), (Top 1%, 1/76), AIED, 2024

Best Interactive Event Award, (HypoCompass Paper), (Top 1%, 1/76), AIED, 2024

Carnegie Funds for Faculty Development, University of Michigan, School of Information, 2024

Best Demo (ConvXAI Paper) (Top 6%, First-Author, 1/16), CSCW, 2023

Google Research Science Conference Scholarships, (MultiturnCleanup Paper, First-Author), Google Research, 2023

Rising Star of Data Science, UC San Diego, UChicago, Stanford University, 2023

Best Paper Award Honorable Mention (ScatterShot Paper) (Top 5%, 3/65), IUI, 2023

Graduate Student Travel Grant, IST, PennState, 2020, 2022

CRA-W Grad Cohort Award, Grad Cohort Workshop for Women, 2019

Lehigh University Fellowship, Lehigh University, 2018-2019

Outstanding Master Degree (Top 12.5%, 5/40), RenMin University of China, 2015

Liaison Officer (Top 1%, 30/3000), Delegation of Singapore Deputy Prime Minister at APEC, 2014

Outstanding Merit Student (Top 0.2%, 1/550), Beijing, 2013

Excellent Graduate (Top 0.2%, 1/550), Beijing, 2013

Outstanding-Dissertation Award (Top 0.5%, 3/550), USTB, 2013

National Endeavor Fellowship, Nationwide (Top 2%, 5/550), National, 2011 and 2012

Vice Chairman (Top 0.3%, 10/3000), The 6th presidium of the 22nd USTB student union, 2011-2012

Alumni Funding Scholarship (Top 0.3%, 8/3,000), USTB, 2012

Selected Services

Area Chair, ACL Rolling Review 2025

Associate Chair, CHI 2026, CHI 2025

CHI 2026 Workshops Jury, CHI 2026

Best Paper Committee, CHI 2025

Associate Chair, CHI 2024 LBW

Leading Organizer & Chair, ICLR 2025 BiAlign Workshop, CHI 2025 BiAlign SIG

Organizing Co-Chair, EMNLP 2025 WiNLP Workshop

Organizing Co-Chair, CSCW 2025 Design for Hope Workshop

Program Committee, AAAI 2026, AAAI 2026 AI Alignment Track

Program Committee, ACL 2023, ACL 2021

Program Committee, EMNLP 2023, EMNLP 2022

Program Committee, CHI 2023 In2Writing Workshop, ICML 2023 AI & HCI Workshop

Reviewer, NeurIPS 2025

Reviewer, TOCHI 2025, UIST 2025, CSCW 2025, FAccT 2025

Reviewer, NAACL 2024, ICASSP 2024, EMNLP 2023, ARR 2021 - 2025