He is deeply fascinated with ACG (Anime, Comics & Games) culture, and is devoted to revolutionizing the ACG industry with AI techniques. Hence, his research interests primarily focus on human-like generative agents and their personas, including (but not limited to):

Role-Playing Language Agents: Targeting at creating AI agents that faithfully represent specific personas, including: (1) Agents for fictional characters from books and ACG, whose applications include virtual companions, games, and content creation; and (2) Agents for real-world individuals, which deeply understand user personas to serve as their digital proxies or personal assistants.

Cognitive Modeling in Language Models: Focusing on integrating anthropomorphic cognition into LLMs, such as ego-awareness, social intelligence, personalities, etc. The goal is to promote LLMs’ understanding of the inner world of themselves and others, hence enabling them to generate more cognitively-aligned and human-like responses.