Xingyu Bruce Liu

刘星宇

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📧 xingyuliu@ucla.edu

🐦 @liu_xingyu

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Curriculum vitae

Greetings! I’m Bruce, a Ph.D. student at the UCLA HCI lab advised by Professor Xiang ‘Anthony’ Chen.

My research interests are at the intersection of HCI and AI. I work on designing and building systems that enables new modes of thought of how humans interact with {humans ∨ AI}. My work spans application domains including communication, accessibility, augmented reality, etc.

My work has been recognized and supported by an Amazon Ph.D. Fellowship (2023), an ACM UIST Best Paper Award 🏆 (2022), two ACM CHI Best Paper Honorable Mentions 🏅 (2023, 2024), an ED Rice Outstanding Master Student Award 🎓 (2023), and a Distinguished Master’s Thesis Research Award 🎓 (2022) at UCLA. I also held research internships at Meta Reality Labs, Google and Snap Research.

news

Jan 22, 2025 Inner Thoughts has been accepted to CHI 2025! 💭
Aug 14, 2024 Serving on the Program Committee and as the Video Presentation Chair for CHI 2025. 🎏
Jun 24, 2024 Starting an internship at Meta Reality Labs Research!
May 11, 2024 Attending CHI 2024 in person! 🏖️
Apr 25, 2024 Human I/O won a Best Paper Honorable Mention award 🏅 at CHI 2024!

selected publications

  1. Proactive Conversational Agents with Inner Thoughts
    Xingyu Bruce Liu, Shitao Fang, Weiyan Shi, Chien-Sheng Wu, Takeo Igarashi, and Xiang Anthony Chen
    In Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Conditionally Accepted) (CHI ’25)
    PDF arXiv Website
  2. Human I/O: Towards a Unified Approach to Detecting Situational Impairments
    Xingyu Bruce Liu, Jiaohao Nick Li, David Kim, Xiang Anthony Chen, and Ruofei Du
    In Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’24)
    🏅 Best Paper Honorable Mention
    PDF Website DOI
  3. Visual Captions: Augmenting Verbal Communication with On-the-fly Visuals
    Xingyu Bruce Liu, Vladimir Kirilyuk, Xiuxiu Yuan, Alex Olwal, Peggy Chi, Xiang Anthony Chen, and Ruofei Du
    In Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’23)
    PDF Blog CodeVideo Website DOI
  4. CrossA11y: Identifying Video Accessibility Issues via Cross-Modal Grounding
    Xingyu Bruce Liu, Ruolin Wang, Dingzeyu Li, Xiang Anthony Chen, and Amy Pavel
    In Proceedings of the 35th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST ’22)
    🏆 Best Paper Award
    PDFVideo Website DOI
  5. What Makes Videos Accessible to Blind and Visually Impaired People?
    Xingyu Liu, Patrick Carrington, Xiang Anthony Chen, and Amy Pavel
    In Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’21)
    PDFVideo DOI