Yang Liu

I am currently a postdoctoral researcher in the Exploratory Search and Personalisation Group at the University of Helsinki.

My research interest lies in user-centered AI. I am interested in applying AI to enhance user interaction and conducting evaluation studies of user-centered systems.

news

Aug 11, 2025 :tada: I successfully defended my doctoral thesis (Opponent: Joseph A. Konstan)!

selected publications

  1. IUI
    Sample, Nudge and Rank: Exploiting Interpretable GAN Controls for Exploratory Search
    Yang Liu, Alan Medlar, and Dorota Głowacka
    In Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 2024
  2. On the Negative Perception of Cross-domain Recommendations and Explanations
    Denis Kotkov, Alan Medlar, Yang Liu, and Dorota Głowacka
    In Proceedings of the 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2024
  3. What We Evaluate When We Evaluate Recommender Systems: Understanding Recommender Systems’ Performance using Item Response Theory
    Yang Liu, Alan Medlar, and Dorota Głowacka
    In Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on recommender systems, 2023
  4. IPM
    Lexical ambiguity detection in professional discourse
    Yang Liu, Alan Medlar, and Dorota Głowacka
    Information Processing & Management, 2022