Sihang (Nagi) Zhao

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I am a CS PhD student @ NYU Courant advised by Prof. Hongyi Wen. My primary research interest lies in the AI for Education (e.g. Personalized Education System, AI tutor, etc.). I am also interested in AI-based Accessible Design for Neurodiversity (e.g. ADHD, ASD, etc.).

I dedicate two hours each week to help neurodiverse individuals with learning and education challenges. Please briefly describe your experience, status and the difficulties you are facing, plus your preferred method of communication (via email, WeChat, Zoom meeting, etc.) in your email, and send it to my personal email: [6+1]nutnut[at]gmail[dot]com. I will respond within 2-3 days upon receiving your message. My consultations are free. If you wish to donate, you can directly contribute to the Spring Bud Project, which supports the education of underprivileged girls.

news

Apr 15, 2025	I will join NYU Courant and NYU Shanghai as a PhD Student in September 2025! GO Violet!

selected publications

CHI 2025

Let AI read first: Enhancing reading abilities for individuals with dyslexia through artificial intelligence

Sihang Zhao, Shoucong Carol Xiong, Bo Pang, and 2 more authors

In Proceedings of the extended abstracts of the CHI conference on human factors in computing systems, 2025

Bib Link

@inproceedings{zhao2025let,
  title = {Let AI read first: Enhancing reading abilities for individuals with dyslexia through artificial intelligence},
  author = {Zhao, Sihang and Xiong, Shoucong Carol and Pang, Bo and Tang, Xiaoying and He, Pinjia},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the extended abstracts of the CHI conference on human factors in computing systems},
  pages = {1--16},
  year = {2025},
}

EMNLP 2024

Difficult task yes but simple task no: Unveiling the laziness in multimodal LLMs

Sihang Zhao, Youliang Yuan, Xiaoying Tang, and 1 more author

In Findings of the association for computational linguistics: emnlp 2024, 2024

Bib Link

@inproceedings{zhao2024difficult,
  title = {Difficult task yes but simple task no: Unveiling the laziness in multimodal LLMs},
  author = {Zhao, Sihang and Yuan, Youliang and Tang, Xiaoying and He, Pinjia},
  booktitle = {Findings of the association for computational linguistics: emnlp 2024},
  pages = {7535--7548},
  year = {2024},
}

more about me

Basketball is my another life. I played for Imperial College London Men's Basketball Team during 2021~2022 and Harmonia College Men's Basketball Team during 2023~2025.

You can also find my photography work in my Instagram. They are about my attempts to find and understand the implict beauty and harmony in ordinary life.