Publications

You can also find my articles on my Google Scholar profile.

Dissertation

• Design Research of Learning Systems Based on Generative Artificial Intelligence
  Doctoral Dissertation, Tsinghua University, 2026.

Working Papers

• Keep the Positive in the Loop: Collective Preference Alignment in Content Recommendations
  Changrong Xiao, Yilin Li, Chong (Alex) Wang, Sean Xin Xu, and Jiayin Zhang

• Designing Empathetic GenAI for Human Learning
  Lini Kuang, Changrong Xiao, Sean Xin Xu, Cheng Yi

Conferences and Workshops

• [LAK25] Human-AI Collaborative Essay Scoring: A Dual-Process Framework with LLMs
  Changrong Xiao, Wenxing Ma, Qingping Song, Sean Xin Xu, Kunpeng Zhang, Yufang Wang, Qi Fu
  In Proceedings of The 15th International Learning Analytics and Knowledge Conference (LAK 2025)
  (The conference is in the top 20 Google Scholar citation ranks for Educational Technology publications)
  [pdf, dataset, codes, slides]

• [ICIS 2024; INFORMS annual meeting 2024] Keep The Positive in The Loop: A Field Experimental Study of The Impact of Integrating Solicited Consumer Feedback in Content Recommendation Systems
  Changrong Xiao, Yilin Li, Chong (Alex) Wang, Sean Xin Xu, and Jiayin Zhang
  In Proceedings of The International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2024)
  [pdf, slides]

• [ACL BEA 2023] Evaluating Reading Comprehension Exercises Generated by LLMs: A Showcase of ChatGPT in Education Applications
  Changrong Xiao, Sean Xin Xu, Kunpeng Zhang, Yufang Wang, and Lei Xia
  In Proceedings of The 18th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2023)
  [pdf, poster, slides]

• [ACMMM LGM3A 2023] Multimodal Data Augmentation for Image Captioning using Diffusion Models
  Changrong Xiao, Sean Xin Xu, and Kunpeng Zhang
  In Proceedings of The 1st Workshop on Large Generative Models Meet Multimodal Applications (LGM3A 2023)
  [pdf, codes, poster, slides]