Published multiple papers, including an oral presentation at NAACL 2025 Main, 'PAPILLON: PrivAcy Preservation from Internet-based and Local Language MOdel ENsembles'; EMNLP 2024 Findings, 'EDEN: Empathetic Dialogues for English learning'; Best Paper Nominee, 19th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications, NAACL 2024, 'Using Adaptive Empathetic Responses for Teaching English', etc.
Research Experience
Teaching assistant for Stanford's CS 224N and CS 224U; member of Stanford's Alexa Prize Socialbot Challenge team of 2022-2023.
Education
BS at Georgia Tech, advisor: Mark Riedl; MSCS at Stanford, advisors: Chris Manning and Chris Potts.
Background
Research interests: Dialogue Systems applications in Education, Privacy, and Healthcare; aims to develop virtual agents that communicate with humans better.
Miscellany
Chinese Name's Pinyin: lǐ sī yàn; Personal Interests: Not explicitly mentioned.