👨‍💻 About Me

Hi there! I am a Ph.D. student in the Augment Research Group at the Department of Computer Science, KU Leuven supervised by Prof. Katrien Verbert and Dr. Yucheng Jin.

Previously, I worked as a RA at Zhejiang University, under the supervision of Prof. Chao Wu. I received my master’s degree in Human–Computer Interaction from Xi’an Jiaotong–Liverpool University (in collaboration with the University of Liverpool) in March 2024, advised by Prof. Lingyun Yu. Before that, I earned my bachelor’s degree from Nanjing Xiaozhuang University in July 2021, supervised by Prof. Hao Zheng.

My research focuses on enabling large language models to interact with users in a more transparent, controllable, and personalized manner, thereby helping users better understand and utilize the models. In my academic journey, I have been fortunate to collaborate closely with Dr. Zhen Wang, from whom I have learned a great deal.

Here is my CV

🔥 News

2025.11: 🏅Our paper is awarded as a Spotlight at LAW 2025 (NeurIPS Workshop).
2025.10: 🎉 One co-author paper is accepted by LAW 2025 (NeurIPS Workshop).
2025.03: 🎉 One co-author paper is accepted by IET Computer Vision.
2024.05: 🎉 One co-author paper is accepted by FedCSIS 2024.

📝 Publications

LAW 2025 (NeurIPS Workshop)

DeepPersonaA Depth-First Synthetic-Persona Engine for Highly Personalized Language Models

Zhen Wang^*, Yufan Zhou^*, Zhongyan Luo, Lyumanshan Ye, Adam Wood, Man Yao, Luoshang Pan

Project | arXiv | Code | Dataset

Provides a scalable engine for generating deep, realistic synthetic personas by building a large human-attribute taxonomy and a structured sampling method that overcomes the shallow, stereotypical nature of existing LLM personas.

FedCSIS 2024

ERF: Multi-Attention Fusion Artistic Radiance Fields

Kunze Jiang^*, Yufan Zhou^*, Wu Chao

Paper

Enhance style transfer in NeRF using multi-attention mechanisms and cross loss functions.
Supervise an undergraduate student to publish his first paper.

IET Computer Vision MRF: Multi-Attention Fusion Artistic Radiance Fields and beyond, Qianru Chen^*, Yufan Zhou^*, Xintong Hou, Kunze Jiang, Jincheng Li, Chao Wu.
Intelligent Computer and Application Accurate Commodity Recommendation System Based On Face Recognition, Yiling Zhang, Wei Xu, Yufan Zhou, Yalin Wang, Hao Zheng. (Actual completion person)
Software Copyright An accurate Commodity Recommendation System Under Big Data,Yufan Zhou，Hao Zheng，Wei Xu，Nanjing Xiaozhuang University.

🎖 Honors and Awards

2021.06 First Prize (Provincial) & Excellent Award (National), 11th Blue Bridge Cup JAVA Software Development
2020.08 First Prize (University) & Third Prize (Provincial), 6th “Internet+” College Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition
2019.05 Merit Student of Jiangsu Province
2018.12 National Scholarship
2016-2019 First Class Scholarship & Merit Student, Changzhou Vocational Institute of Engineering (Three Consecutive Years)

📖 Educations

2022.09 - 2024.04, MSc in Human-Computer Interaction, Xi’an Jiaotong Liverpool University (University of Liverpool).
2019.09 - 2021.06, B.Eng. in Software Engineering, Nanjing Xiaozhuang University.
2016.09 - 2019.06, College Diploma, Changzhou Vocational Institute of Engineering. (Ranking 5/354)

💻 Internships and Employments

2023.06 - 2025.09, Research Assistant, Computational Ssocial Science Research Center, Zhejiang University, China.
2023.03 - 2023.06, Research Assistant, Computational Social Science Research Center, Zhejiang University, China.(Part time)
2022.06 - 2023.03, Youth Programming Instructor, E-Blocks Education, China.(Part time)
2022.01 - 2022.05, Youth Programming Instructor, XiaoMaWang, China.

🎙 Miscellaneous

I have a kitty called Naitang, and I adore it!! 🐱💕