Scholar
Zhiwei Liu
Google Scholar ID: gfqqbIwAAAAJ
The University of Manchester
Citations & Impact
Citations
519
H-index
10
i10-index
11
Publications
20
Co-authors
0
Publications
Resume
Academic Achievements
- - Student Grant from The Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (AISB)
- - Paper “Selective Preference Optimization via Token-Level Reward Function Estimation” accepted by EMNLP 2025
- - Paper “ConspEmoLLM-v2: A robust and stable model to detect sentiment-transformed conspiracy theories” accepted by ECAI 2025
- - Paper “RAEmoLLM: Retrieval Augmented LLMs for Cross-Domain Misinformation Detection Using In-Context Learning based on Emotional Information” accepted by ACL 2025 (Main)
- - Preprint “MMAFFBen: A Multilingual and Multimodal Affective Analysis Benchmark for Evaluating LLMs and VLMs” published on arXiv
Research Experience
- - Manchester-Melbourne-Toronto Research Project (Team Lead), Dec 2023 - Feb 2025
- - Misinformation Digital Trust and Democracy II (Team Lead), Jan 2025 - Jul 2025
- - Misinformation Digital Trust and Democracy I (Team Lead), Jan 2024 - Jul 2024
Education
- - PhD: The University of Manchester, Advisor: Prof. Sophia Ananiadou, started in July 2023
- - M.Sc.: The University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Major: Computer Science
Background
- - Research Interests: Natural Language Processing, Large Language Models, especially post-training, reinforcement learning, affective analysis, misinformation detection, and AI Safety
- - Professional Field: Computer Science
- - Brief Introduction: PhD candidate at the University of Manchester, expected to graduate in Fall 2026, looking for full-time positions in AI, either in academia or industry.
Miscellany
- - Personal Interests: Not specifically mentioned