Yunze (Lorenzo) Xiao

I am an incoming master student in LTI at Carnegie Mellon University where I am advised by Prof.Kemal Oflazer.I also work closely to Prof.Mona Diab. Previously,I have been advised by Prof. Houda Bouamor in Carengie Mellon University in Qatar. I also had the amazing opportunities to work with Dr. Firoj Alam at QCRI and Prof. Roy Ka-Wei Lee at SUTD. Currently, I am working with Dr.Xiaoyuan Yi at Microsoft Ressearch Asia as an Incoming Research Intern .

For now my research interests mainly revolve around Intersections between Computational Social Science, Human Computer Interaction and Natural Language Processing:

1. Speech-centric LLM Persona and Roleplay Agents: How can we present emotions and personality of a character in a speech-centric way?
2. Emerging and Existing Cultures: How does culture affect the way we interact with LLMs and how can we make LLMs more culturally sensitive?
3. Human-centric Anthropomorphic Agents: Why should we make LLMs more human-like, and how does it benefit the users?

In the end, we are looking for applying these research for authentic AI companion as a potential solution to the global lonliness and disconnection

Currently hosting a non-profit organization Cranberry Lemon Research. Currently looking for more collaborators and members.

In the process of recruiting interested people to join preperation for PersonaNLP workshop at COLM.

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