CV

Guangrui Fan (樊光瑞)

Lecturer | Ph.D.

gerryfan2022@gmail.com
+86 13387574446
Taiyuan, Shanxi, CN

Summary

Lecturer at Taiyuan University of Science and Technology with a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Universiti Malaya. My research focuses on Human-AI Interaction, Social Computing, and Trustworthy LLM Evaluation. I have published or had accepted 21 conference and journal papers as first or corresponding author, including 10 CCF-A papers and 5 CAS Zone 1 Top journal papers.

Education

  • Ph.D. in Computer Science
    2026-06
    Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  • M.S. in Software Engineering
    2018-02
    Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
  • B.S. in Digital Media Technology
    2014-06
    Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Work Experience

  • Lecturer
    2018-06 - Present
    Taiyuan University of Science and Technology
    School of Computer Science and Technology, Taiyuan, Shanxi, China
    • Full-time teaching and research through September 2022; approved unpaid study leave from September 2022 to June 2026 for doctoral study.

Skills

Research Areas

  • Human-AI Interaction
  • Social Computing
  • Trustworthy LLM Evaluation
  • AI for Software Engineering
  • Affective Computing

Tools & Programming

  • Python
  • Java
  • JavaScript

Publications

  • FairSynth: Instrument-Relative Evaluation and Calibration of LLM Survey Simulations for Measurement Fairness
    2026
    Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026
    Accepted; first author; CCF B
  • From Solo Post to Shared Space: How a Public LLM Agent Reshapes Human-to-Human Conversation Structure on a Social Platform
    2026
    ACM Transactions on Social Computing
    Accepted; corresponding author
  • Fairness Labels in Feeds: Process Disclosures, Provenance, and User Choice Among Short-Video Creators in Mainland China
    2026
    Social Media + Society
    Accepted; corresponding author; CAS Zone 1 Top
  • Graph-Preference Learning: Debiasing Network-Sampled Human Feedback for Target Welfare Estimation
    2026
    ICML 2026
    First-author paper
  • Incomplete Multi-View Clustering via Neighborhood-Conditioned Diffusion
    2026
    ICML 2026
    Coauthored paper
  • Feeling Rules in Language Models: Mapping Norms of Emotional Appropriateness Across Roles, Institutions, and Intensity
    2026
  • Is It Still You? Attributing Authorship and Authenticity in AI-Assisted Romantic Communication
    2026
  • When Help Hurts: Verification Load and Fatigue with AI Coding Assistants
    2026
    CHI 2026
    ACM CHI 2026 Honourable Mention Award
  • Co-Adaptive Eco-Nudging: A Privacy-Preserving Contextual Bandit with User-Taught Preferences
    2026
  • Multi-LLM Persona Generation for Virtual Focus Groups in Software Engineering: A Controlled, Multi-Domain Study of Emotional Requirements Elicitation
    2026
  • Audit-of-Audits for the Web: Bayesian Meta-Evaluation that Yields Interval-Valued, Threshold-Aligned Fairness Claims
    2026
  • Mind the Gap: Predicting, Explaining and Reducing Time-to-First-Comment (Reply Gap) in Online Mental-Health Communities
    2026
  • Creative Momentum Transfer: How Timing and Labeling of AI Suggestions Shape Iterative Human Ideation
    2025
    IJCAI 2025
  • LePER: Label-Free Edge Polarity Reweighting for Heterophily
    2026
    ICASSP 2026
    Oral presentation
  • Consent Boundaries by Play: A CI-Grounded Micro-Game for Eliciting Stable Preferences and Diagnosing Opt-Out Friction in Web Consent
    2026
    ECSCW 2026
  • The impact of AI-assisted pair programming on student motivation, programming anxiety, collaborative learning, and programming performance: a comparative study with traditional pair programming and individual approaches
    2025
    International Journal of STEM Education
    ESI Highly Cited Paper
  • Tool, tutor, or crutch?: A grounded theory of cognitive scaffolding and offloading in AI-assisted programming education
    2026
    International Journal of STEM Education
    Vol. 13, Article 10
  • DynaKey-GNN: An efficient dynamic key-node multi-graph neural network for spatio-temporal traffic flow forecasting
    2025
    Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
  • Emerging Trends in Graph Neural Networks for Traffic Flow Prediction: A Survey
    2025
    Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering
  • Skim or Swim? Investigating AI-Generated Summaries, Trust, and Comprehension in Chinese Mobile Reading
    2025
    International Journal of Human--Computer Interaction
  • Conformal@K: Distribution-Free Top-K Miss-Risk Control for Recommendation with Overlapping-Group and Two-Stage Guarantees
    2026
    ACM Transactions on Information Systems
    Accepted (CCF A)
  • Textless, Tiny, and Private: Hashed n-Grams with LLM-Teacher Distillation and Local Differential Privacy for Mental-Health Screening on Social Media
    2026
    IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems
    Early Access

Teaching

  • Java Web Development
    2018
    Taiyuan University of Science and Technology
    Role: Course Instructor
  • Oracle Database Management
    2018
    Taiyuan University of Science and Technology
    Role: Course Instructor
  • Computer Graphics
    2018
    Taiyuan University of Science and Technology
    Role: Course Instructor
  • Computer Animation Principles
    2018
    Taiyuan University of Science and Technology
    Role: Course Instructor

Languages

  • Chinese
    Native
  • English
    Professional working proficiency

Interests

  • Tennis