Second-year PhD student at USC
Hi
I'm Tianyi (Mavis) Zhang.
张天怡 · Zhāng Tiānyí · pronounced “Jahng TYEN-ee”
I work on natural language processing and personalized AI, with a particular interest in systems that can model individual ways of thinking, speaking, deciding, and remembering.
I am advised by Prof. David Traum in the Natural Language Dialogue Group at USC, and work closely with Dr. Rui Mao and Prof. Erik Cambria at Nanyang Technological University.
News
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Our paper DiPS: Dialogue Policy Selection for High-Stakes Persuasion Agents has been accepted by SIGDial 2026!
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Our paper GameplayQA: A Benchmarking Framework for Decision-Dense POV-Synced Multi-Video Understanding of 3D Virtual Agents has been accepted to ACL 2026, see you in San Diego!
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Our paper Rethinking Evaluation in Retrieval-Augmented Personalized Dialogue: A Cognitive and Linguistic Perspective has been accepted to LREC 2026!