Haoxiang Fan

Zhuhai, China
Email: fanhx6@mail2.sysu.edu.cn
Personal Website: https://fanhaoxiang.top

Education

Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU)

Master’s Degree in Artificial Intelligence
Sept. 2023 – Present

• School of Artificial Intelligence
• Advisor: Zhenhui Peng

Jinan University (JNU)

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science and Technology
Sept. 2019 – June 2023

• College of Information Science and Technology
• GPA: 3.85/5.0 (Top 8%)

Research Interests

• Human-Computer Interaction: human-AI collaboration, intelligent systems for education, decision making, and storytelling.
• Artificial Intelligence: multimodal large language models, computer vision, image generation.

Publications

2025

1. Exploring the Usage of Generative AI for Group Project-Based Offline Art Courses in Elementary Schools
   Zhiqing Wang, Haoxiang Fan, Qiaoyi Chen, Shiwei Wu, Yongqi Liang, and Zhenhui Peng
   Conditionally Accepted in The 28th ACM SIGCHI Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW '25).
2. LitLinker: Supporting the Ideation of Interdisciplinary Contexts with Large Language Models for Teaching Literature in Elementary Schools
   Haoxiang Fan, Changshuang Zhou, Hao Yu, Xueyang Wu, Jiangyu Gu, and Zhenhui Peng
   CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '25).
   Arxiv: 2502.16097
3. LessonPlanner: Assisting Novice Teachers to Prepare Pedagogy-Driven Lesson Plans with Large Language Models
   Haoxiang Fan, Guanzheng Chen, Xingbo Wang, and Zhenhui Peng
   The 37th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '24).

2024

4. TPMN: Texture Prior-Aware Multi-Level Feature Fusion Network for Corrugated Cardboard Parcels Defect Detection
   Xing He, Haoxiang Fan, Cuifeng Du, Xingyu Zhu, and others
   International Journal of Advanced Computer Science & Applications.

2023

5. ReDBot: Exploring Conversational Recommendation for Decision-Making Support in Group Chats
   Qiushi Han, Haitong Chen, Haoxiang Fan, and Zhenhui Peng
   Proceedings of the Eleventh International Symposium of Chinese CHI, pp. 73–80.

Experience

Research Intern

Pervasive HCI Lab, Tsinghua University
Jan. 2025 - Present

• Designed an AI-based educational tool to enhance children’s mathematical learning through interaction with real-world objects.
• Involved in system design, developing the LLM workflow (using LangChain), conducting user studies, and data analysis.

Research Intern

School of Intelligent Systems Engineering, SYSU
Sept. 2024 - Nov. 2024

• Supervised by Prof. Xiaodan Liang.
• Worked on multimodal mathematical reasoning by incorporating slow thinking abilities.
• Adapted RLHF in models and writing.
• Paper: Can Atomic Step Decomposition Enhance the Self-structured Reasoning of Multimodal Large Models? available on arxiv.

Project Lead

National Undergraduate Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Program, Jinan University
Aug. 2021 - June 2022

• Supervised by Prof. Xiaoming Wang.
• Developed a two-tower model recommender system using meta-learning-based federated learning.

Academic Activities

• Reviewer for CSCW'23, CHI'25, and CHI'25 late breaking works.
• Teaching assistant for “Data Structure and Algorithm” and its lab sessions (2023 Fall); for the lab sessions of “Principles of Artificial Intelligence” (2024 Spring).

Honors

• First Prize Graduate Scholarship, Sun Yat-sen University (2024, 2023)
• Finalist, The 3rd Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau College Student Public Administration Data Analysis Contest (2023)
• Third Prize, 10th “China Software Cup” College Student Software Design Competition (Project: Handwriting Input Method on Linux Platform, 2021)
• The Third Prize Scholarship, Jinan University (2021, 2020)
• Champion, 28th “Jinan Cup” Debate Competition of Jinan University (2020)