Hi!😊 I am a senior undergraduate in the Tsien Excellence in Engineering Program (TEEP) at Tsinghua University. I am honored to be advised by Professor Maarten Sap at the Language Technologies Institute, Professor Hong Shen at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, and Professor Zhicong Lu at George Mason University. Previously, I was fortunate to be advised by Professor Chun Yu and Professor Weinan Shi at Pervasive Interaction Lab, Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University.

My research interests lie in the intersection of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Artificial Intelligence (AI). I develop systems based on large language models (LLMs) and multimodal models, aiming to reshape the ways users collaborate and communicate with AI, while exploring AI's potential impacts in areas such as artistic creation, social interaction, algorithmic justice, office automation, and journalism. I also build context-aware mobile computing platforms and design intelligent, human-centered sensing systems.

Research topics:

  • Human-AI Interaction & Ubiquitous Computing: Creativity Support Systems, Context-Aware Systems, LLM-Based Multi-Agent Systems, Retrieval-Augmented Generation Systems, Speech Recognition and Noise Reduction, Robotic Process Automation
  • Social Computing & Responsible AI: Value Alignment & Social Bias, Trustworthy & Explainable AI
  • Multimodal Models: Large Vision-and-Language Models, Diffusion Models

Publications (First / Second Author)

ContextCam: Bridging Context Awareness with Creative Human-AI Image Co-Creation

Xianzhe Fan, Zihan Wu, Chun Yu, Fenggui Rao, Weinan Shi, Teng Tu

CHI 2024 Paper

Minion: A Technology Probe for Resolving Value Conflicts through Expert-Driven and User-Driven Strategies in AI Companion Applications

Xianzhe Fan, Qing Xiao, Xuhui Zhou, Yuran Su, Zhicong Lu, Maarten Sap, Hong Shen

Preprint

User-Driven Value Alignment: Understanding Users' Perceptions and Strategies for Addressing Biased and Discriminatory Statements in AI Companions

Xianzhe Fan, Qing Xiao, Xuhui Zhou, Jiaxin Pei, Maarten Sap, Zhicong Lu, Hong Shen

Accepted by CHI 2025!

“It Might be Technically Impressive, But It’s Practically Useless to Us”: Practices, Challenges, and Opportunities for Cross-Functional Collaboration around AI within the News Industry

Qing Xiao, Xianzhe Fan, Felix M. Simon, Bingbing Zhang, Motahhare Eslami

Accepted by CHI 2025!

Experience

  • Research Intern, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University (May 2024 - Present)
  • Research Intern, Pervasive Interaction Lab, Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University (March 2022 - July 2024)
  • Undergraduate of Tsien Excellence in Engineering Program (TEEP), GPA: 3.84/4.00, Tsinghua University (September 2021 - July 2025)

English Level

  • TOEFL: 106

Academic Service

  • Conference Reviewer, CHI 2025
  • Conference Reviewer, MobileHCI 2024

Other Projects (Team Leader / Independent Contributor)

Multimodal Theory of Mind in Minecraft Multi-Agent Collaboration

Xianzhe Fan, Xuhui Zhou, Kaiwen Zhang, Kolby Nottingham, Hao Zhu, Maarten Sap

Research Project, 2024 - Present

Visual Analysis and Algorithm Optimization of Dual Mic Noise Reduction

Xianzhe Fan, Chun Yu

Research Project, 2022

Context-Aware Smart Desktop Interaction

Xianzhe Fan, Jie Meng, Qitong Li, Chun Yu

Research Project, 2022

Application of LLM-Based API Chain in AI Painting Interactive Agents

Xianzhe Fan, Teng Tu, Chun Yu

Research Project, 2023

Face Recognition System in Unconstrained Environments

Xianzhe Fan, Zhaoxu Chen, Junlin Luo, Xiaolin Hu

Course Project, 2023