Xingyu Bruce Liu

刘星宇

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

I’m a human-AI researcher building the future forms of LLMs and AI agents that understand more deeply, interact more naturally, and align more seamlessly with humans. For example, interfaces where users can steer AI’s thoughts mid-conversation (ThinkaloudLM), agents that proactively engage in group conversations by modeling intrinsic motivation (Inner Thoughts), and multimodal agents that adapts to and stays in sync with real-world constraints (Human I/O).

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

news

Apr 15, 2025 Attending CHI 2025 in Yokohama, Japan! 🍣 I’ll be presenting Inner Thoughts and Interacting with Thoughtful AI. If you’re attending CHI 2025, please say hi!
Jan 23, 2025 Inner Thoughts has been accepted to CHI 2025! 💭
Aug 15, 2024 Serving on the Program Committee and as the Video Presentation Chair for CHI 2025. 🎏
Jun 25, 2024 Starting an internship at Meta Reality Labs Research!
May 12, 2024 Attending CHI 2024 in person! 🏖️

selected publications

  1. Interacting with Thoughtful AI
    Xingyu Bruce LiuHaijun Xia, and Xiang Anthony Chen
    In CHI 2025 Workshop on Tools for Thought: Research and Design for Understanding, Protecting, and Augmenting Human Cognition with Generative AI (CHI ’25)
  2. Proactive Conversational Agents with Inner Thoughts
    In Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’25)
  3. Human I/O: Towards a Unified Approach to Detecting Situational Impairments
    Xingyu Bruce LiuJiaohao Nick LiDavid KimXiang Anthony Chen, and Ruofei Du
    In Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’24)
  4. Visual Captions: Augmenting Verbal Communication with On-the-fly Visuals
    Xingyu Bruce Liu, Vladimir Kirilyuk, Xiuxiu Yuan, Alex OlwalPeggy ChiXiang Anthony Chen, and Ruofei Du
    In Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’23)
  5. CrossA11y: Identifying Video Accessibility Issues via Cross-Modal Grounding
    Xingyu Bruce LiuRuolin WangDingzeyu LiXiang Anthony Chen, and Amy Pavel
    In Proceedings of the 35th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST ’22)
  6. What Makes Videos Accessible to Blind and Visually Impaired People?
    In Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’21)