Xin Sun
Xin Sun

Specially Appointed Assistant Professor

Interests
  • Natural Language Processing / Generation
  • LLMs Alignment-Evaluation
  • Conversational Agents
  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Physiological Sensing
  • Behavioral Tracking
  • User Interfaces
Education
  • PhD in NLP-HCI-Psychology

    University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands

  • MSc in Optimization and AI (NLP)

    Heidelberg University, Germany

  • BSc in Computational Mathematics

    XiDian University, China

Research Overview

Human Understanding

Using language, behavioral and physiological sensing to understand how people perceive AI/LLMs output.

LLM Alignment

Aligning LLMs or AI systems with human needs and domain-specific expertise.

Human-AI Coupling

Designing interventions and UIs for trustworthy Human-AI Coupling and in turn, to augment humans.

Research overview visual

My current direction focuses on human-AI coupling that 1) LLMs can align with human processing needs; 2) AI-generated language can support humans with appropriate reliance.

Recent Highlights
April 2026

Two full papers were accepted to ACL 2026 (One Main, One Findings) in San Diego, USA.

March 2026

One full papers were accepted to ACM UMAP 2026 in Gothenburg, Sweden.

January 2026

A full paper and a poster were accepted to CHI 2026 in Barcelona.

December 2025

New work was accepted by IJHCS and CSCW 2026.

August 2025

A VR and AI project was selected for first-round incubation funding from the Wellcome Trust AI Accelerator.

March 2025

A full paper and an LBW contribution were accepted to CHI 2025 in Yokohama.

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2024 to 2025

Ongoing publications and presentations across COLING, CSCW, ICMI, and leading HCI venues.