Education
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Ph.D Student in Natural Language Processing
NLP Department, MBZUAI |
Aug. 2025 - Present
Abu Dhabi, UAE |
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B.Eng., EECS
School of Information Science & Technology, Shandong University |
Sept. 2021 - June 2025
Qingdao, China |
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Experience
NLP Department, MBZUAI
Research Intern, Supervisor: Prof. Xiuying Chen |
Sept. 2024 - July 2025 |
AITechLab, Shandong University
Research Assistant, Supervisor: Prof. Pengwei Wang |
Dec. 2023 - June 2025 |
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Research
I am particularly interested in Human-centered NLP and Interpretability, and I'd be happy to discuss various topics not limited to these areas!
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From Individuals to Crowds: Dual-Level Public Response Prediction in Social Media
Jinghui Zhang, Kaiyang Wan, Longwei Xu, Ao Li, Zongfang Liu, Xiuying Chen
ACM MM 2025
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EmoVerse: Exploring Multimodal Large Language Models for Sentiment and Emotion Understanding
Ao Li, Longwei Xu, Chen Ling, Jinghui Zhang, Pengwei Wang
neurocomputing
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Modeling Variants of Prompts for Vision-Language Models
Ao Li, Zongfang Liu, Xinhua Li, Jinghui Zhang, Pengwei Wang, Hu Wang
Under Review
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Service
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| Conference Reviewer: ARR Feb 2025, ARR May 2025, AAAI 2026 |
Honors & Awards
ACM Student Travel Grant, ACM MM 2025
| Sept. 2025 |
Distinguished Undergraduate Thesis, Shandong University
| June 2025 |
Second Prize, Shandong Province College Student Mathematics Competition
| Dec. 2022 |
First Prize, MathorCup Mathematical Modeling Challenge Competition
| Apr. 2024 |
Academic Scholarship, Shandong University
| Sept. 2022 & 2023 & 2024 |
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Miscellanea
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| Here are some pics of places I love: my gallery. I probably won't update it often cuz I just post new stuff on a whim when I'm free... |
| As a cat person I can't help but share my feline friends :D |
Hi 2025
Night at Qingdao, where the city lights embraced the ocean breeze
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Two Brothers
Captured a sweet moment of inseparable companions
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