About Me

I am currently a Research Fellow at the National University of Singapore. I work with Prof. Tat-Seng Chua at the NExT++ Research Center in the School of Computing, and with Prof. Jose M. Valderas at CRiHSP in NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine. I received my Ph.D. from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, supervised by Prof. Hong Cheng. Prior to my Ph.D., I received my master’s degree from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS), where I was a member of SIAT-NLP and was supervised by Prof. Min Yang.

Research Interest

My vision is to build AI agents that truly understand individuals, accumulate meaningful memory over time, and behave reliably in the real world. I believe personalized and trustworthy intelligence will be key to unlocking the full potential of LLMs in consequential domains such as healthcare and beyond.

My current work focuses on: Personalized LLMs, Memory of LLM-based Agents, Trustworthy AI and AI4Healthcare.

Recruitment

📢 I am actively looking for motivated students and collaborators in the above research areas. Feel free to get in touch!

Contact: xiaoyanzhao.ai@gmail.com

  • Visiting scholars / students: I have close connections with CUHK and NUS. If you are interested in visiting opportunities, you are welcome to contact me.
  • Research collaboration: I would be happy to collaborate and exchange ideas on related topics.

News

🎉 2026.05: Two papers accepted by KDD 2026!
🎉 2026.04: Our tutorial has been accepted to SIGIR 2026!
🎉 2026.02: Our workshop has been accepted to KDD 2026!
🎉 2026.01: Three papers accepted by ICLR 2026!
🎉 2025.09: One paper accepted by NeurIPS 2025!
🎉 2025.08: One paper accepted by EMNLP 2025!
🎉 2025.05: One paper accepted by ACL 2025!
🎉 2025.01: One paper accepted by ICLR 2025!