Zheng (Bella) CHEN

Bella is a Ph.D. student at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) starting in Fall 2024, under the guidance of Professor Bo Li. She earned her Science and Finance Bachelor’s degree from the University of Hong Kong. Bella’s research focuses on Human-AI interaction, aiming to bridge the gap between human real-life experiences and AI capabilities.

· Usable Explainable AI: Transparent, interpretable, and interactive AI through mechanistical interpretation Transformer Tools.

· Trustworthy AI: Ethical, fair, and reliable AI thourgh reasoning workflow design to facilitate AI usage in specific industries.

News

Jul 2025 - Bella’s first ACL conference in Vienna! Come by and chat.
Sep 2024 - Bella starts her Ph.D. study in HKUST.
Aug 2024 - Bella participates in the Hong Kong CUPP programme at Draper University in San Mateo, Silicon Valley, and wins HKD $100,000 fund.
Jul 2024 - As a PIC, Bella’s Startup Project gets HKSTP Ideation HKD $100,000 fund.
Jun 2024 - Graduates from HKU majoring in Decision Analytics (Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Sciences) and Finance. May 2024 - Bella’s first CHI conference, CHI24@Hawaii)!

Publications and Research

Zheng Chen, Futian Jiang, Yue Deng, Changyang He, Bo Li Meetalk: Retrieval-Augmented and Adaptively Personalized Meeting Summarization with Knowledge Learning from User Corrections
ACL 2025 Workshop KnowFM Long Paper PDF

Zheng Chen, Zhaoxin Feng, Jianfei Ma, Jiexi Xu, Bo Li Can LLMs Recognize Their Own Analogical Hallucinations? Evaluating Uncertainty Estimation for Analogical Reasoning
ACL 2025 Workshop KnowFM Long Paper PDF

Zheng Chen, Yushi Feng, Changyang He, Yue Deng, Hongxi Pu, Bo Li IPAD: Inverse Prompt for AI Detection – A Robust and Explainable LLM-Generated Text Detector
Submitted to Neurips 2025 PDF

Yue Deng, Zheng Chen, Changyang He, Zhicong Lu, Bo Li
Persuasion or Insulting? Unpacking Discursive Strategies of Gender Debate in Everyday Feminism in China.
In Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. (CHI 2024) PDF

Zheng Chen, Di Zou, Haoran Xie, Zhiyuan Pang
Facilitating University Admissions Using a Chatbot Based on Large Language Models with Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Educational Technology & Society. [SSCI IF=4.0, 5 year IF=4.9, Status: Accepted] PDF

Zheng Chen, Mohammad Salah, Mohammad Hamadaqa
A Context-Driven Approach for Co-Auditing Smart Contracts with The Support of GPT-4 code interpreter
Submitted to ICCP24 PDF

Zheng Chen, Ruiqiu Yao, Andrew Gillen
How Do Engineering Students Characterize Their Educational Experience on a Popular Social Media Platform Before and During the Covid-19 Pandemic?
2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition PDF

Working Experiments

Apr 2024 to Dec 2024 - Bella works in Moffett AI specializing in AI Agent for finance and law industry.

May 2023 to Aug 2023 - Bella works in Montreal Polytechnique University as an researhc intern on vulnerabilities of Web 3 smart contracts.

May 2022 to Aug 2022 - Bella works in World Vision Zambia as an intern on community technology development.