About

My name is Victor Li Chuang. I completed my PhD in Computer Science from the National University of Singapore (Integrative Sciences and Engineering Programme) in 2025 under the co-supervision of Prof. Kan Min-Yen and Prof. Li Haizhou. Prior to the PhD, I finished my B.Eng. in Electrical and Computer Engineering under the supervision of A/Prof Thomas Yeo.

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My research interests include Conversational Recommendation Systems and Interactive Dialogue Systems.

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[ICML 2026] Strategy Executability in Mathematical Reasoning: Leveraging Human-Model Differences for Effective Guidance

W. Liang, Y. Sun, S. Nan, C. Li, D. Song, K. Kawaguchi

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[ECIR 2026] Improving Conversational Recommendation with Contextual Adaptation of External Recommenders and LLM-Based Reranking (CARE)

C. Li, W. Liang, H. Hu, S.K. Ng, M.Y. Kan, H. Li, Y. Deng

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[arXiv 2025] From Harm to Help: Turning Reasoning In-Context Demos into Assets for Reasoning LMs

H. Wang, W. Liang, Z. Fu, N. Zheng, Y. Zhang, Y. Tong, T. Zhu, H. Jiang, C. Li, et al.

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[NAACL 2025] Incorporating External Knowledge and Goal Guidance for LLM-based Conversational Recommender Systems (ChatCRS)

C. Li, Y. Deng, H. Hu, M.Y. Kan, H. Li

Paper GitHub

[NAACL 2024] UNO-DST: Leveraging Unlabelled Data in Zero-Shot Dialogue State Tracking

C. Li, Y. Zhang, M.Y. Kan, H. Li

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[ECIR 2024] Lightweight Modality Adaptation to Sequential Recommendation via Correlation Supervision

H. Hu, Q. Liu, C. Li, M.Y. Kan

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[KaRS Workshop @ RecSys 2023] A Conversation is Worth A Thousand Recommendations: A Survey

C. Li, H. Hu, Y. Zhang, M.Y. Kan, H. Li

Paper GitHub

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PhD in Computer Science — National University of Singapore, Graduate School for Integrative Sciences and Engineering (ISEP) (2020–2025)

  • CAP: 4.71/5.0
  • NGS-ISEP Scholarship, Presidential Graduate Fellowship, Research Incentive Award
  • Research areas: NLP, Conversational Search and Recommendation Systems
  • Supervisors: A/Prof Kan Min-Yen (NUS), Prof Li Haizhou (CUHK)

B.Eng in Electrical & Computer Engineering, 1st Class Honours — National University of Singapore (2016–2020)

  • CAP: 4.71/5.0
  • NUS Science and Technology Scholarship

Centrale Supélec — Paris, France (Spring 2019)

  • NUS Student Exchange Programme

Hanyang University — Seoul, South Korea (Summer 2017)

  • Summer Exchange Programme

Université de Strasbourg — Strasbourg, France (Summer 2017)

  • French Language Immersion Programme
  • Awarded NUS French Language Immersion Award