Hi, I am currently a Ph.D. Fellow of the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS)🇪🇺. I am jointly affiliated with the Chair of Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HCAI), supervised by Prof. Elisabeth André at the University of Augsburg🇩🇪 and Group of AI for people and society Lab (GAIPS) at the University of Lisbon🇵🇹, supervised by Prof. Ana Paiva, and Prof. Joana Campos.
Before starting my Ph.D., I completed my M.Sc in Computer Science (Cognitive Systems) at the University of Ulm🇩🇪, where I worked on bounded rationality, sensorimotor decision-making, and psychophysiological signals (EMG) in controlled behavioural paradigms. I hold a B.Sc in Psychology from South China Normal University (SCNU)🇨🇳, providing a foundation in cognitive science, education, and human-centered research methods.
Blautopf’s water is dreamlike😍*! (Thanks you @Hyejin for taking this photo for me🫶)*
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I'm an interdisciplinary researcher interested in develop social intelligence in assistive intelligent systems through imitation learning of human emotional interaction patterns, bridging cognitive science and artificial intelligence 🧠←→🤖.
I envision such systems as proactive social partners that can infer human needs, effort, and task difficulty during collaborative tasks and autonomously decide when and how to intervene. Methodologically, I integrate multimodal perception, theory-of-mind modelling, and imitation learning to enable machines to internalise human coordination norms.
As collaboration is central to performance in mixed human–agent teams, My goal is to design interaction strategies that reduce cognitive load and errors while enhancing performance.
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Outside of work, I enjoy knitting, cooking and reading 🥘🧶📚.
Italo Calvino is my favourite author, I highly recommend his *Six Memos for the Next Millennium.*
“Brief, paradoxical and deeply satisfying, these unusual pieces of literary criticism contain a universe.” — The Guardian
Jan 22
Admitted to Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), University of Lisbon! Joining the GAIPS group for my second PhD as an ELLIS Fellow!🎓
Sept 16
Gave a talk on our Proactive Virtual Agents work at the IVA 2025 workshop in Berlin!
*Sponsorship Huge thanks to @AI Grid for the sponsorship!*
Sept 12
Delivered an innovation pitch at the K.I.E.Z. Entrepreneurship Workshop in Berlin. A great experience exploring the startup side of AI.🦾🤩
Aug 27
Presented my poster on Emotional Labor Support at the ELLIS Doctoral Symposium 2025 in Warsaw. Nice to meet all the ELLIS fellows!
*Sponsorship Thanks for the travel support from @**ELSA** again! *****
Jul 24
Attended the 15th Lisbon Machine Learning Summer School (LxMLS) at Uni Lisbon.
*Scholarship Grateful for the travel support from @ELSA! *****
Jul 22
Excited to share that our paper on proactive virtual agents in healthcare has been accepted at ACM IVA 2025! I’ll be presenting this work as a workshop talk in Berlin this September.🇩🇪
Jun 24
Invited talk at the Swiss Digital Center during the FAI Research Retreat in Sion, Switzerland.
Jun 14
Our collaborative paper from the Spring School on Emotionally Intelligent AI is now out on arXiv, check it out here!
Apr 8
Spent an intensive week at Sorbonne University in Paris for the Spring School 2025 on Emotionally Intelligent AI.