Zi Haur Pang

Zi Haur Pang

Kyoto University

📝 Publications

CHI 2025

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Does the Appearance of Autonomous Conversational Robots Affect User Spoken Behaviors in Real-World Conference Interactions?

Zi Haur Pang, Yahui Fu, Divesh Lala, Mikey Elmers, Koji Inoue, Tatsuya Kawahara
In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2025
[Arxiv] [Presentation Video]

COLING 2025

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Human-Like Embodied AI Interviewer: Employing Android ERICA in Real International Conference

Zi Haur Pang, Yahui Fu, Divesh Lala, Mikey Elmers, Koji Inoue, Tatsuya Kawahara
In The 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics
[Arxiv] [Demo]

IWSDS 2024

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Acknowledgment of Emotional States: Generating Validating Responses for Empathetic Dialogue

Zi Haur Pang, Yahui Fu, Divesh Lala, Keiko Ochi, Koji Inoue, Tatsuya Kawahara
In The 14th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology
BEST PAPER NOMINEE🏆
[Arxiv]

💻 Experience

2025.06 - 2025.07: Research Intern, Speech, Language & Interactive Machines (SLIM) Research Group, Boise State University.
2024.04 - 2024.08: Teaching Assistant, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University.
2020.09 - 2022.03: Data Scientist, AirAsia.Com Travel Sdn. Bhd..
2020.05 - 2020.12: Research Assistant, Institute of Actuarial Science and Data Analytics, UCSI University.
2019.10 - 2019.12: Data Analyst Intern, SIC Co. Ltd.

🔎 Reviewer Experiences

2026: The ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW)
2025: Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)
2025: International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI) Late Breaking Result track
2025: The ACM CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) Late Breaking Result track
2024 - 2025: PeerJ Computer Science