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Lizi Liao is an Assistant Professor at the School of Computing and Information Systems, Singapore Management University (SMU), specializing in Artificial Intelligence and Conversational AI. Her research bridges Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, and Multimodal Systems, focusing on proactive dialogue systems, multimodal conversational search, and task-oriented interactions.
- Education: PhD in Computer Science (2019) from the National University of Singapore (NUS), advised by Professor Tat-Seng Chua.
Research Interests center on principles of human conversational understanding and machine implementation, particularly in proactive conversational agents, multimodal dialogue systems, and target-driven conversation planning. Key applications include emotional support systems, intelligent shopping assistants, and learning companions.
Recent Publications (2024-2025) highlight her work on LLM-based proactive dialogue, multimodal emotion recognition, and dynamic graph modeling, often integrating NLP, Multimedia, and Knowledge Graphs. Collaborative projects with her CoAgent Lab team emphasize human-AI interaction and ethical response generation.
Scientific Awards:
- Google South Asia & Southeast Asia Research Award 2023
- Lee Kong Chian Fellow
Teaching includes Visual Analytics for Business Intelligence (undergraduate) and Text Analytics and Application (graduate). She also serves as Associate Editor for TOIS and TOMM, and organizes tutorials at ACL, SIGIR, and WSDM.
