Ziwen Li

Ziwen (Aaron) Li

Hi there👋. I am Ziwen (Aaron) Li, a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at PEACH Lab at Northeastern University advised by Prof. Tianshi Li. Before that, I received my master's degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering at UCLA, advised by Prof. Xiang 'Anthony' Chen and Prof. Eunice Jun in UCLA HCI. I received a joint B.E. in Electronic Information Engineering from University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) and University of Glasgow (UoG) in 2023, where I was advised by Prof. Yi Zhang.

Research: My current research interests include Privacy-preserving NLP , aiming to develop robust and trustworthy systems and algorithms that safeguard human privacy within language-based applications and interactions.

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🔥Latest News

Jul, 2025 Our paper CoSight got accepted to UIST 2025 🎉
Mar, 2025 Excited to share that I will be joining PEACH Lab at Northeastern University!
Feb, 2025 Happy to be invited as a reviewer in CHI 2025 LBW.
Feb, 2025 Our paper GraPPI got accepted to Findings of NAACL 2025 🎉

📝Selected Publications

	GraPPI: A Retrieve-Divide-Solve GraphRAG Framework for Large-scale Protein-protein Interaction Exploration Ziwen Li, Xiang 'Anthony' Chen, Youngseung Jeon NAACL 2025 Findings [ Paper \| Github ]
	CoSight: Exploring Viewer Contributions to Online Video Accessibility Through Descriptive Commenting Ruolin Wang, Xingyu Bruce Liu, Biao Wang, Wayne Zhang, Ziqian Liao, Ziwen Li, Amy Pavel, Xiang 'Anthony' Chen UIST 2025 [ Paper ]

📖Teaching

Teaching Assistant, UCLA ECE 102, Systems and Signals, Fall 2024, with Prof. Jonathan Kao

💻Internship

Jun. 2022 -Oct. 2022, Tongling Branch of China Telecom

🖋️Service

Reviewer, CHI LBW

Shout out to the concise webpage template by Jon Barron.

Last updated: April 22, 2025