Siwen Luo

Siwen Luo is a Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering within the School of Physics, Maths and Computing at The University of Western Australia. She holds a PhD in Computer Science from The University of Sydney (2023) and specializes in multimodal AI systems with emphasis on explainability and robustness.

Education

• PhD in Computer Science, The University of Sydney, 2023

Research Focus

Dr. Luo's work centers on Natural Language Processing and Vision-Language Integration, with significant contributions to Explainable AI, Visual Question Answering, and Visually-rich Document Understanding. Her research improves AI interpretability for scientific applications and mental health domains, aligning with UN Sustainable Development Goals for quality education and industry innovation. Key methodologies include knowledge distillation and multimodal large language models.

Publication Trends

Her 2023-2025 publications reveal strong focus on knowledge distillation techniques for multimodal tasks, particularly visual question answering and mental health detection. Works appear in top venues including AAAI, CIKM, IJCAI, and ACM Computing Surveys, demonstrating expertise in bridging computer vision with language understanding through datasets like MMVQA and PDF-VQA.

Mentoring and Collaboration

Dr. Luo actively mentors PhD and HDR students at UWA while collaborating across disciplines to develop responsible AI technologies. She currently accepts new research students for projects in NLP and multimodal learning.