Using Language Models help People with Dyslexia
My first HCI work
CHI' 2025 Late Breaking Work
ABOUT ME:
My name is ZHAO, Sihang, you can also call me "Nagi" (凪), which is my Japanese and English name. I am an incoming CS PhD student @ NYU Courant ( Shanghai Track), supervised by Prof. Hongyi Wen.
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
My primary research interest lies in the AI-based interactive-accessible design, Inclusive Education System for neurodiversity (e.g. ADHD, ASD, etc.)
EDUCATION:
PhD student in Computer Science @ NYU Courant and @ Shanghai Track supervised by Prof. Hongyi Wen
MPhil student in Computer and Information Science @ The Chinese Univeristy of Hongkong, Shenzhen supervised by Prof. Pinjia He
MSc in Applied Computational Science @ Imperial College London
BEng in Computer Science @ Wuhan University of Technology
SERVICE:
I dedicate two hours each week to do my best to help neurodiverse individuals with learning and education challenges. Please briefly describe your experience, statu 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: 7nutnut[at]gmail.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.
PUBLICATIONS
Sihang Zhao, Youliang Yuan, Xiaoying Tang, Pinjia He. Difficult Task Yes but Simple Task No: Unveiling the Laziness in Multimodal LLMs. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024, pages 7535–7548, Miami, Florida, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Sihang Zhao, Shoucong Xiong, Bo Pang, Xiaoying Tang, Pinjia He. Let AI Read First: Enhancing Reading Abilities for Individuals with Dyslexia through Artificial Intelligence. In Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’25), April 26-May 1, 2025, Yokohama, Japan. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 16 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3706599.3720113.
ONGOING WORK
Hanxiu 'Hazel' Zhu, Avanthika Senthil Kumar, Sihang Zhao, Ru Wang, Xin Tong, Yuhang Zhao, Characterizing Collective Efforts in Content Sharing and Quality Control for ADHD-relevant Content on Video-sharing Platforms.
Keywords: Social Computing, Qualitative Study, Accessibility
Recent Work
Unveiling the Laziness in Multimodal LLMs
My first research project
EMNLP' 2024 Findings
Content Sharing and Quality Control for ADHD-relevant Content on Video-sharing Platforms
Lead by Hanxiu 'Hazel' Zhu
Supervised by Prof. Yuhang Zhao
Automated Crater Detection and Classification with Metamorphic Augmentation
MSc Final Project
My very first work at Imperial
(I am really proud of it)
More About Me
I was diagnosed with ADHD in 2022. So please excuse my (maybe too) wild imagination and frequent moments of sudden, deep contemplation :)
I am an typical ENTP who scored 142 on MENSA IQ Challenge.
Basketball is my another life. I played for Imperial College London Men's Basketball Team as SG during 2021~2022.
You can find my photography work in my Instagram. The theme of my photos is the journey in search of peace and harmony, alongside the loneliness and melancholy felt along the way.
HORNER
Harmonia College Scholarship 'Outstanding Contribution in Sports'(AY 2023-2024) -- 2024
Academic Excellent Awards in UC, Davis -- 2021
Third-class Scholarship of Wuhan University of Technology -- 2020
Merit Student of Wuhan University of Technology -- 2020
Second Prize in Chinese High School Mathematics Competition -- 2016
My Footpints
Get In Touch
For academic collaboration, you can contact me with my email.
If you like my photos, you can follow or DM me through my Instagram