Bingsheng Arthur Yao
Associate Research Scientist at Northeastern University
I am an associate research scientist in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University (PI: Prof. Dakuo Wang). I received my PhD from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, advised by Prof. Jim Hendler.
My research lies at the intersection of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Natural Language Processing (NLP), with two primary interests:
I. Design, Develop, and Evaluate Human-Centered NLP Systems
Particularly in medical and healthcare, we engage multi-stakeholders to design and validate AI/LLM-driven multi-modal intelligent systems for remote patient monitoring (RPM), patient-provider communication, and clinical decision-makings [1, 2, 3, 4].
II. Design LLM/AI Agents To Effectively Establish Mutual Human-Agent Collaboration
I envision a near future where AI agents will work with us, not for us, becoming functionally indistinguishable from any other remote human collaborator. The research roadmap in this direction is bifolds: 1) design and evaluate AI agents to think and behave collaboratively; 2) design interface and interaction patterns to establish mutual human-agent collaboration through the lens of remote collaboration with decades of knowledge about what makes remote teams trust each other, share context, and coordinate effectively [1, 2, 3].
Our Human-Centered AI (NEU-HAI) Lab is actively recruiting self-motivated research assistants, Ph.D. students, and postdocs. Please check our lab website. If you are interested in working with me directly, please email me with a description of your skills, research interest, and attach your cv.
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Please refer to my Google Scholar page for the most up-to-date publication record.
The best way to reach out is through emails: b [dot] yao [at] northeastern [dot] edu.
News
| 2025.02 | Co-first authored paper Survey of LLM Role-Playing Agent Evaluation is now publically available on arXiv |
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| 2025.01 | Five papers were accepted to CHI 2025. Thanks for the hard working by collaborators and mentees! |
| 2024.10 | Our paper StorySparkQA Dataset with Real-World Knowledge for Children Education was accepted to EMNLP 2024 |
| 2024.09 | Our paper Secret Use of Large Language Models was accepted to CSCW 2025 |
| 2024.07 | Our paper Early Sepsis Prediction with Uncertainty Quantification and Active Sensing was accepted to KDD 2024 |
| 2024.04 | Our paper LLM-based Voice Assistant for Asynchronous Older Adults-Care Provider Communication and Mental-LLM were accepted to IMWUT 2024 |
| 2024.03 | First-authored paper In-Context Sampling Strategy for Reliable LLM Prompting was accepted to NAACL 2024 Findings |
| 2024.03 | Guest talk at USC titled “Bridging AI Research and Real-world Scenarios”. Thanks Prof. Yao Du for the invitation! |
| 2024.02 | I am joining Prof. Dakuo Wang’s Human-Centered AI Lab at Northeastern University as a postdoc associate! |
| 2024.01 | Two of our papers, Human-AI Collaboration in Sepsis Diagnosis and User’s Sensitive Disclosure with LLM were accepted to CHI 2024 |
| 2024.01 | I passed the Ph.D. dissertation defense. My deepest gratitude to all those who supported and helped me, especially Prof. Jim Hendler and Prof. Dakuo Wang |
| 2023.10 | Our paper, Discourse Framework for Science Journalism, was accepted to EMNLP 2023, and another first-authored paper, Active Learning Empowered by Natural Language Explanations, was accepted to EMNLP 2023 Findings |
| 2023.07 | First-authored paper Objective Evaluation of Human Explanations was accepted to ACL 2023 for Oral Presentation |
| 2022.05 | Two first-authored papers, QA-Pair Generation for Story Books and FairytaleQA Dataset were accepted to ACL 2022 |
| 2022.04 | Our paper StoryBuddy was accepted to CHI 2022 |
| 2021.09 | Our paper Narrative Open-Domain QA Techniques was accepted to TACL (2021) 9 |
| 2020.03 | Our paper Trust in AutoML was accepted to IUI 2020 |