About Me

Hi! My name is Jiaju Chen, a Master’s student at Rice University.

My research focuses on Human-Centered AI design of NLP applications for domain-specific scenarios, including personalized LLM-powered systems for children’s education [CHI ‘25], dataset for evaluating LLMs’ capability to generate educational-appropriate content [EMNLP ‘24]. Recently, I have been working on LLM Agents for human behavior simulation, such as leveraging LLM to simulate real-world multi-stakeholder evaluation of NLP applications.

Now I am a research assistant at the Human-Centered AI Lab at Northeastern University, working on projects advised by Prof. Dakuo Wang. During my undergraduate study, I worked closely with Prof. Yuling Sun.

News

04/2025 🎡 Attending CHI 2025 in Yokohama and will present our StoryMate paper. I also work as a student volunteer this year.
01/2025 ⭐️ Two papers StoryMate and Live-Streaming-Based Dual-Teacher are accepted by CHI 2025. See you in Yokohama!
11/2024 🌴 Attended EMNLP 2024 at Miami, Florida, USA.
11/2024 🌋 Attended CSCW 2024 at San Jose, Costa Rica.

Publications

2025

StoryMate Teaser
In Submission
Multi-Agent-as-Judge: Aligning LLM-Agent-Based Automated Evaluation with Multi-Dimensional Human Evaluation
Jiaju Chen, Yuxuan Lu, Xiaojie Wang, Huimin Zeng, Jing Huang, Jiri Gesi, Ying Xu, Ying Xu, Bingsheng Yao, Dakuo Wang.

arXiv Preprint

StoryMate Teaser StoryMate Conversation Teaser
CHI 2025
Characterizing LLM-Empowered Personalized Story-Reading and Interaction for Children: Insights from Multi-Stakeholder Perspectives
Jiaju Chen, Minglong Tang Yuxuan Lu, Bingsheng Yao, Elissa Fan, Xiaojuan Ma, Ying Xu, Dakuo Wang, Yuling Sun, Liang He.

In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2025

Live-Streaming Teaser Live-Streaming Teaser
CHI 2025
Live-Streaming-Based Dual-Teacher Classes for Equitable Education: Insights and Challenges From Local Teachers' Perspective in Disadvantaged Areas
Yuling Sun, Jiaju Chen, Xiaomu Zhou, Xiaojuan Ma, Bingsheng Yao, Kai Zhang, Liang He, Dakuo Wang.

In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2025

2024

StorySparkQA Teaser
EMNLP 2024
StorySparkQA: Expert-Annotated QA Pairs with Real-World Knowledge for Children's Story-Based Learning
Jiaju Chen, Yuxuan Lu, Shao Zhang, Bingsheng Yao, Yuanzhe Dong, Ying Xu, Yunyao Li, Qianwen Wang, Dakuo Wang, Yuling Sun, Liang He.

In Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

CSCW24 Teaser
CSCW 2024
Exploring Parent's Needs for Children-Centered AI to Support Preschoolers' Interactive Storytelling and Reading Activities
Yuling Sun, Jiaju Chen, Bingsheng Yao, Jiali Liu, Dakuo Wang, Xiaojuan Ma, Yuxuan Lu, Ying Xu, Liang He.

In Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, Volume 8, Issue CSCW2