Biography

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.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering under the supervision of A/Prof Thomas Yeo.

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

Selected Publications

[ECIR 2026] CARE: Contextual Adaptation of Recommenders for LLM-based Conversational Recommendation

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

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

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

Education

PhD in Computer Science — National University of Singapore (2020–2025)

B.Eng, Electrical Engineering — National University of Singapore (2016–2020)