Bruce Liu

Bruce Liu

Ph.D. Candidate @ UCLA

Hola! I'm a PhD candidate in UCLA HCI lab advised by Professor Xiang 'Anthony' Chen. My research explores future forms of Large Language Models and AI agents beyond a turn-based chatbot.


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. I've also done internships at Adobe Research, Google, Meta Reality Labs and Snap Research.


Here's my CV

Projects

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A Text-Native Interface for Generative Video Authoring

Xingyu Bruce Liu, Mira Dontcheva, Dingzeyu Li

A Text-Native Interface for Generative Video Authoring

Proactive Conversational Agents with Inner Thoughts

Xingyu Bruce Liu, Shitao Fang, Weiyan Shi, Chien-Sheng Wu, Takeo Igarashi, Xiang Anthony Chen

Proactive Conversational Agents with Inner Thoughts

Human I/O: Towards a Unified Approach to Detecting Situational Impairments

Xingyu Bruce Liu, Jiaohao Nick Li, David Kim, Xiang Anthony Chen, Ruofei Du

Best Paper Honorable Mention
Human I/O: Towards a Unified Approach to Detecting Situational Impairments

Visual Captions: Augmenting Verbal Communication with On-the-fly Visuals

Xingyu Bruce Liu, Vladimir Kirilyuk, Xiuxiu Yuan, Alex Olwal, Peggy Chi, Xiang Anthony Chen, Ruofei Du

Visual Captions: Augmenting Verbal Communication with On-the-fly Visuals

CrossA11y: Identifying Video Accessibility Issues via Cross-Modal Grounding

Xingyu Bruce Liu, Ruolin Wang, Dingzeyu Li, Xiang Anthony Chen, Amy Pavel

Best Paper Award
CrossA11y: Identifying Video Accessibility Issues via Cross-Modal Grounding

Connect

Feel free to contact me at xingyuliu@ucla.edu