I am a first-year PhD student in Information Science and Technology at George Mason University, advised by Sungsoo Ray Hong
My research related to human-AI collaboration with a focus on:
- Interactive, scalable multi-robotic systems
- Video content analytics for collaborative sensemaking on open environments
I am passionate about practical, end-to-end approaches to assist well-beings in both virtual and physical, dynamic environments.
Some other research topics I participated in:
- LLM-powered systems supporting interactive chain-of-thought reasoning of qualitative data analysis
- Visual place recognition in urban environments
- Psychological MBTI Personality analysis on social media based on multi-dimensional user data and profiles.
Recent News
Released MindCoder v2! Generate full reports with one-click! Try our tool at mindcoder.ai
Very glad to make presentation and connect with awesome researchers at CIKM 2024!
Accepted by CIKM 2024! Check out our new paper here
Publications
MindCoder: An Ideation Tool for Inductive Qualitative Analysis with Large Language Models
Jie Gao, Zhiyao Shu, ShunYi Yeo
arXiv • 1/2025
When LLM Meets Hypergraph: A Sociological Analysis on Personality via Online Social Networks
Zhiyao Shu, Xiangguo Sun, Hong Cheng
CIKM 2024 • 5/2024
Thumb up or head down? The impact of upvote on social media self-efficacy
Zhiyao Shu
Education Psychology and Public Media • 12/2023