Teaching
Teaching Courses
- Conversational Agents (XB_0182) — Coordinator, Teacher, Bachelor Course (6EC), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Feb 2027 – Mar 2027) [Details]
- Project Conversational Agents (XB_0101) — Coordinator, Teacher, Bachelor Course (6EC), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Jan 2026 – Feb 2026) [Details]
- Project Conversational Agents (XB_0101) — Teacher, Bachelor Course (6EC), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Jan 2025 – Feb 2025) [Details]
- Information Retrieval (Zoekmachines) — TA, Bachelor Course, University of Amsterdam (Sep 2020 – Oct 2020) [Details]
- Information Retrieval 2 — TA, Master Course, University of Amsterdam (Nov 2018 – Dec 2018) [Details]
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- Information Retrieval (Zoekmachines) — TA, Bachelor Course, University of Amsterdam (Sep 2018 – Oct 2018) [Details]
Student Supervision
PhD Students (9 total)
- Tian Xia (Mar 2026 – Present) — Adaptive Large Language Model Merging (Research=>Conference Submission), Tohoku University
- Yue Su (Nov 2025 – Present) — Gaze Perception and Understanding Beyond Conversations (Ongoing PhD=>ACL26, CHI26), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- Yifan Mo (Nov 2025 – Present) — Psycholinguistic Bonding in Conversational Agents (Ongoing PhD=>ACL26, CHI26), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- Qingyu Meng (Oct 2025 – Present) — Trustworthy Multi-Agents and Safety Alignment (Ongoing PhD=>ACL26), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- Zimu Wang (Sep 2025 – Present) — Financial Decision Credibility and Report Quality (Research=>Conference Submission), University of Liverpool
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- Xin Sun (Sep 2024 – Oct 2025) — Psycholinguistic Dialogue Generation (Research=> COLING24,COLING25, CSCW25), University of Amsterdam / Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica
- Weijia Zhang (Jan 2024 – Jul 2024) — Faithfulness Evaluation of Large Language Models (Research=>INLG24), University of Amsterdam
- Yuanxing Liu (Jan 2023 – Jul 2023) — Conversational Recommendation (Research=>TOIS25), University of Amsterdam
- Wentao Deng (Sep 2022 – Jul 2024) — Legal Dialogue Generation and Reasoning with Large Language Models (Research=>EMNLP23, TACL23, NeruIPS25), Shandong University
Master Students (13 total)
- Jason Wang (Dec 2025 – Present) — Gaze Language Models for Mental Health Support (Thesis), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- Hristina Chalokova (Nov 2025 – Present) — Soften Resistance in LLM Mental Health Agents (Thesis=>Conference Submission), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- Thomas Glatz (Oct 2025 – Present) — Digital Employee with LLMs (Thesis=>Conference Submission), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- Tianshi Cai (Sep 2025 – Present) — Financial Decision Credibility and Report Quality (Research=>Conference Submission), University of Liverpool
- Wiam Osman (May 2025 – Present) — Bridging Intergenerational Communication with LLMs (Research=>Conference Submission), The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)
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- Xiao Fu (Dec 2024 – Aug 2025) — Evaluating Mathematical Reasoning Abilities of Large Language Models within Scientific Literature (Thesis => ACL26), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- Dingming Liu (Oct 2024 – Jul 2025) — Multi-Agent Simulation of Client-Therapist Dialogues with Large Language Models: An MI-Centered Framework (Thesis => ACL26), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- Mithat Can Ozgun (Oct 2024 – Jun 2025) — Trustworthy AI Psychotherapy: Multi-Agent LLM Workflow for Counseling and Explainable Mental Disorder Diagnosis (Thesis => CIKM25), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- Haochen Huang (Jan 2024 – Jul 2024) — Fine-Grained Vision-Language Modeling for Multimodal Training Assistants in Augmented Reality (Thesis=>Nominated for Amsterdam AI Thesis Awards, Conference Submission), University of Amsterdam / Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam / Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica
- Chengshun Shi (Jun 2023 – Jul 2024) — Efficient Fine-tuning for Large Language Models (Research=>ACL24), Shandong University
- Guojun Yan (Jun 2021 – Jun 2022) — Medical Dialogue Agents (Research=>SIGIR23), Shandong University
- Basak Tugce Eskili (Jan 2019 – May 2019) — Hierarchical Merchant Category Code Assignment for E-commerce Merchants (Thesis), University of Amsterdam, Informatics Institute
- Arent Stienstra (Mar 2018 – Sep 2018) — Role-aware Recurrent Entity Networks for Task-oriented Dialogue Systems (Thesis=>IJCAI19 SCAI Workshop), University of Amsterdam, Informatics Institute
Bachelor Students (6 total)
- Marouan Hmidach (Mar 2026 – Present) — Learning-to-Ask Agent for Structured Report Generation in Special Education (Thesis), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- Chi Zhang (Jan 2026 – Present) — Pre-play – Visual Communication for Everyday Autistic Life (Thesis), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- Jiaqi Shi (Dec 2025 – Present) — Real-Time Cognitive Load Classification for Adaptive Online Learning Systems (Thesis), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- Mkita Yurchyk (Apr 2025 – Nov 2025) — Design, Implementation and Evaluation of Vision and Language Agents for LEGO Assembly in Augmented Reality (Thesis=>Conference Submission), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- Yas Lotfi (Jan 2025 – Jun 2025) — Explainable Conversational Agent for Mental Health Chatbots Using LLMs (Thesis), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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- Tyler Cools (Jun 2018 – Dec 2018) — Using Source Awareness in Memory End-to-End Task-oriented Dialog Learning (Thesis), University of Amsterdam, Informatics Institute
High School Students (1 total)
- Albert Tang (Oct 2025 – Present) — Human-Centered AI for Neurodiverse Communication (Research=>CHI26), Marriotts Ridge High School
