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.
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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! |
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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! 🏖️ |