Hey! I’m Li Zhou, an NLP enthusiast and explorer🤗.

I’m currently a Postdoc research fellow at CUHK-Shenzhen, working with Prof. Haizhou Li. I received my PhD degree from UESTC in June 2024, supervised by Prof. Wenyu Chen. During my PhD journey, I visited the CoAStaL NLP group in the University of Copenhagen (2022-2023), supervised by Prof. Daniel Hershcovich and working with the rest of the team.

My recent research focuses on speech-language models, including emotionally intelligent dialogue systems and controllable generation. Besides, I am also interested in human-centered NLP, cultural consideration in NLP, LLM bias, AI Safety, and semantic representation learning.

I enjoy taking on new challenges in NLP. It allows me to learn, grow, and enhance my research abilities. I also love working with different researchers to spark creativity and new perspectives.

If you find my research intriguing or if it fits your project’s needs, please feel free to reach out to me.

Email: lizhou21@cuhk.edu.cn

🔥 News

• [2025.08]   🎉🎉 Three papers were accepted by EMNLP2025 main: 1) Hanfu-Bench: A Multimodal Benchmark on Cross-Temporal Cultural Understanding and Transcreation; 2) From Word to World: Evaluate and Mitigate Culture Bias via Word Association Test; 3) RAG-Instruct: Boosting LLMs with Diverse Retrieval-Augmented Instructions
• [2025.08]   🎉🎉 One paper was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing: Utilizing Contextual Clues and Role Correlations for Enhancing Document-level Event Argument Extraction.
• [2025.05]   🎉🎉 One paper was accepted by ACL 2025 main: Know You First and Be You Better: Modeling Human-Like User Simulators via Implicit Profiles.
• [2025.01]   One paper was accepted by NAACL 2025 main: Does Mapo Tofu Contain Coffee? Probing LLMs for Food-related Cultural Knowledge.
• [2025.01]   One paper was accepted by WWW 2025: Beyond Binary: Towards Fine-Grained LLM-Generated Text Detection via Role Recognition and Involvement Measurement.
• [2024.12]   🌐🗺️ The 3rd Workshop on Cross-Cultural Considerations in NLP is co-located with NAACL 2025! CFP is out!
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📝 Services

• Conference Reviewer:
  • ACL Rolling Reviewer
  • AAAI 2026
  • ACL 2025
  • EMNLP (2023, 2024, 2025)
  • NAACL (2024, 2025)
  • EACL 2024
  • WWW 2025
  • ICASSP (2023, 2024, 2025)
  • IJCNN (2022, 2023, 2024, 2025)
  • IALP (2024, 2025)
  • IEEE CAI 2024
• Journal Reviewer:
  • Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
  • Knowledge-Based Systems
  • Information Fusion
  • Computer Speech & Language
  • International Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics
  • IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence
  • International Journal of Social Robotics
  • Acta Psychologica
  • Computers in Human Behavior.
• Organizer:
  • C3NLP@ACL 2024
  • C3NLP@NAACL 2025.