Jincenzi Wu

System Engineering & Engineering Management Ph.D. Student, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Welcome! I'm Jincenzi Wu, a Ph.D. student in the Department of System Engineering & Engineering Management, πŸ‡­πŸ‡° The Chinese University of Hong Kong, supervised by Prof. HELEN, Meiling Meng .
Before that, I worked as a research intern at CoAI affiliated with Tsinghua University, under the supervision of Prof. Minlie Huang.

My Master's degree in Computer Engineering was earned at πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ New York University. Additionally,I earned a Bachelor of Science in Software Engineering from πŸ‡¨πŸ‡³ Southwest University and a Bachelor of Science with Honours in Information Technology from πŸ‡¦πŸ‡Ί Deakin University, where I had the wonderful opportunity to work with Prof. Lei Pan.

My research interests lie at the intersection of large language models, reinforcement learning, and social cognitive science. I am particularly focused on equipping language agents with human-like abilities, such as Theory of Mind and social intelligence. Ultimately, my goal is to build machines that can understand humans, emulate human reasoning and behaviour, and accompany humans as socially aware and trustworthy partners.

When I have the time, I enjoy deep diving🀿 & tennis 🎾.

Feel free to say hi: jincenziwu at gmail dot com


News

[05/2025] Two main papers, SocialCC(SOcialDuolingo) & InSerter, are accepted by ACL 2025. See you in Austria πŸ‡¦πŸ‡Ή!
[10/2024] Released COKE on Hugging Face. COLM is coming soon.
[08/2024] πŸŽ‰Great News! Our paper COKE won the πŸ† Area Chair Paper Award (0.48%) at ACL 2024! Congratulations to all collaborators!πŸ₯‚
[05/2024] Two main papers, COKE & ToMBench , are accepted by ACL 2024. See you in Thailand πŸ‡ΉπŸ‡­!

Research Experience

Tsinghua University (The CoAI Group), China πŸ‡¨πŸ‡³
Fields: Theory of Mind, Emotional Support Conversation
Research Intern, 2021.11 - 2023.07
Work with Dr. Zhuang Chen and Prof. Minlie Huang


University of Southern California, USA πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ
Project: Machine Learning
Research Assistant, 2021.05 - 2021.07
Work with Prof. Victor Adamchik


The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia πŸ‡¦πŸ‡Ί
Project: Privacy-preserving Publishing of Linked Data
Research Intern, 2018.11 - 2019.02

Selected Publication


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SocialCC: Interactive Evaluation for Cultural Competence in Language Agents


Jincenzi Wu, Jianxun Lian, Dingdong Wang, Helen M. Meng
ACL 2025 [Paper]
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COKE: A Cognitive Knowledge Graph for Machine Theory of Mind


Jincenzi Wu*, Zhuang Chen*, Jiawen Deng, Sahand Sabour,Helen Meng, Minlie Huang (* Equal Contribution)
ACL 2024 (Oral Paper 8%)(Area Chair Award 0.48%)
[Paper] [Project] [Data&Code]
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ToMBench: Benchmarking Theory of Mind in Large Language Models


Zhuang Chen*, Jincenzi Wu*, Jinfeng Zhou*, Bosi Wen*, Guanqun Bi, Gongyao Jiang, Yaru Cao, Mengting Hu, Yunghwei Lai, Zexuan Xiong, Minlie Huang (* Equal Contribution)
ACL 2024 [Paper] [Project] [Data&Code]