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Biography
Dr. Lizhen Qu is a lecturer (assistant professor) at the Faculty of Information Technology at Monash University, a founding member of the AIM lab, and an expert in robust and privacy-preserving neuro-symbolic methods for natural language processing (NLP) and multimodal applications. His work seamlessly integrates deep learning, logical reasoning, and causality. In particular, his team were the first to investigate the negative impact of spurious correlations in dialogue research using causality theories and proposed algorithms to improve the robustness and generalizability of models across domains. In addition, he has conducted extensive research on a wide range of NLP applications, with a special focus on legal AI, digital health, and social NLP. Prior to his current role, he served as a research scientist at Data61/CSIRO, and completed his PhD at Saarland University and the Max-Planck-Institute for Informatics. He also actively contributes to the NLP community, serving as an Area Chair for ACL Rolling Review (ARR), OpenReview Co-Chair for ACL 2025, and Workshop Co-Chair for IJCNLP-AACL 2025.
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TMLGenAI: Trustworthy Generative AI: Towards Safe and Aligned Foundation Models
Phung, D. (Primary Chief Investigator (PCI)), Vu, T. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Qu, L. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Le, T. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Haffari, R. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Webb, G. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Nicholson, A. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Ke, Q. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Cai, J. (Chief Investigator (CI)) & Bui, T. (Chief Investigator (CI))
11/06/24 → 10/07/26
Project: Research
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HARNESS: Hierarchical Abstractions and Reasoning for Neuro-Symbolic Systems
Rezatofighi, H. (Primary Chief Investigator (PCI)), Garcia De La Banda Garcia, M. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Li, Y.-F. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Stuckey, P. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Gasevic, D. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Gutierrez, J. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Qu, L. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Ignatiev , A. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Swiecki, Z. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Vered, M. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Chen, G. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Haffari, R. (Chief Investigator (CI)) & Say, B. (Chief Investigator (CI))
20/06/23 → 20/02/27
Project: Research
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CSIRO Next Generation Graduates Program: AI in Mental Health
McNaney, R. (Primary Chief Investigator (PCI)), Olivier, P. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Yap, M. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Cai, J. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Wu, L. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Watterson, J. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Haffari, R. (Partner Investigator (PI)), Qu, L. (Partner Investigator (PI)), Wilson Rajaratnam, S. (Partner Investigator (PI)), Wang, T. (Partner Investigator (PI)), Sharp, G. (Partner Investigator (PI)), Alvarez-Jimenez, M. (Chief Investigator (CI)), D'Alfonso, S. (Chief Investigator (CI)) & Kostakos, V. (Chief Investigator (CI))
Pola Practice Pty Ltd, Crank Group Pty Ltd
5/04/23 → 31/12/27
Project: Research
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Accessible Data Exploration and Analysis for Blind People
Marriott, K. (Primary Chief Investigator (PCI)), Butler, M. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Zukerman, I. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Qu, L. (Chief Investigator (CI)) & Lee, B. (Partner Investigator (PI))
Australian Research Council (ARC)
28/02/23 → 27/02/27
Project: Research
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When Refreshable Tactile Displays Meet Conversational Agents: Investigating Accessible Data Presentation and Analysis with Touch and Speech
Reinders, S., Butler, M., Zukerman, I., Lee, B., Qu, L. & Marriott, K., Jan 2025, In: IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. 31, 1, p. 864-874 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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IMO: Greedy Layer-Wise Sparse Representation Learning for Out-of-Distribution Text Classification with Pre-trained Models
Feng, T., Qu, L. & Haffari, R., 2024, Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers). Clinciu, M., Liu, B., Zoey Chen, Z. & Liang, C. (eds.). Kerrville TX USA: Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Vol. 1. p. 2625–2639 15 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Research › peer-review
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Let’s negotiate! A survey of negotiation dialogue systems
Zhan, H., Wang, Y., Li, Z., Feng, T., Hua, Y., Sharma, S., Qu, L., Azad, Z. S., Zukerman, I. & Haffari, G., 2024, EACL 2024 - The 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Findings of EACL 2024. Graham, Y. & Purver, M. (eds.). Kerrville TX USA: Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), p. 2019-2031 13 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Research › peer-review
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ReNoVi: A Benchmark Towards Remediating Norm Violations in Socio-Cultural Conversations
Zhan, H., Li, Z., Kang, X., Feng, T., Hua, Y., Qu, L., Ying, Y., Chandra, M. R., Rosalin, K., Jureynolds, J., Sharma, S., Qu, S., Luo, L., Soon, L.-K., Azad, Z. S., Zukerman, I. & Haffari, G., 2024, Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL 2024. Duh, K., Gomez, H. & Bethard, S. (eds.). Kerrville TX USA: Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), p. 3104-3117 14 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Research › peer-review
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Towards Probing Speech-Specific Risks in Large Multimodal Models: A Taxonomy, Benchmark, and Insights
Yang, H., Qu, L., Shareghi, E. & Haffari, R., 2024, EMNLP 2024, The 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference. Al-Onaizan, Y., Bansal, M. & Chen, Y.-N. (eds.). Kerrville TX USA: Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), p. 10957–10973 17 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Research › peer-review
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