Zhiyang Qi

Zhiyang Qi | 斉志揚 🧑‍🚀

I am a postdoctoral researcher at The University of Tokyo, working in Toriumi Lab on ERATO Informational Wellbeing .

I am also interested in dialogue systems and psychological counseling AI. I am happy to contribute to collaborative projects through online discussions, especially by sharing ideas, feedback, and research perspectives. I can also support figure design and academic writing. Please feel free to contact me!

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News

2026.05One paper was accepted by AIiH 2026.
2026.03I received my Ph.D. from The University of Electro-Communications.
2026.03Multilingual KokoroChat was accepted to LREC 2026 and is available on GitHub.
2025.06A journal paper was accepted by the Journal of Natural Language Processing.
2025.06The large-scale Japanese psychological counseling dialogue dataset collected via role-playing, KokoroChat, was accepted to ACL 2025 and released on GitHub and Hugging Face.

Selected Publications Selected work from journals and refereed international conferences. View all publications.
	Multilingual KokoroChat: A Multi-LLM Ensemble Translation Method for Creating a Multilingual Counseling Dialogue Dataset Ryoma Suzuki, Zhiyang Qi, and Michimasa Inaba. GitHub Pages / Poster LREC 2026
	KokoroChat: A Japanese Psychological Counseling Dialogue Dataset Collected via Role-Playing by Trained Counselors Zhiyang Qi, Takumasa Kaneko, Keiko Takamizo, Mariko Ukiyo, and Michimasa Inaba. GitHub Pages / Hugging Face / Poster / Slide ACL 2025 Main
	Collection and Analysis of Travel Agency Task Dialogues with Age-Diverse Speakers Michimasa Inaba, Yuya Chiba, Zhiyang Qi, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Kazunori Komatani, Yusuke Miyao, and Takayuki Nagai. Dataset ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing, 2024.
	Data Augmentation Integrating Dialogue Flow and Style to Adapt Spoken Dialogue Systems to Low-Resource User Groups Zhiyang Qi and Michimasa Inaba. Poster SIGDIAL 2024
	Enhancing Dialogue Generation in Werewolf Game Through Situation Analysis and Persuasion Strategies Zhiyang Qi and Michimasa Inaba. Slide AIWolfDial Workshop at INLG 2024 (Best Win Rate and Game Action Award)

Work Experience

2026.04 - Present, Project Researcher, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.Supervisor: Fujio Toriumi.
2026.05 - 2026.08, Researcher, The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan.Supervisor: Maki Sakamoto.
2025.04 - 2026.03, Research Assistant, The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan.Supervisor: Maki Sakamoto.

Education

2023.04 - 2026.03, Ph.D. in Informatics, The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan.Advisor: Michimasa Inaba.
2021.04 - 2023.03, M.S. in Informatics, The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan.Advisor: Michimasa Inaba.
2015.09 - 2019.06, B.S. in Software Engineering, Qingdao University of Science & Technology, Qingdao, China.Advisor: Zhen Sun.

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Awards and Honors

2026.03 言語処理学会第32回年次大会 (NLP2026) 優秀賞, selected 13/789 papers.
2024.09 AIWolfDial 2024: Best Win Rate and Game Action Award; Best Subjective Evaluation Award.
2024.09 第19回YANSシンポジウムハッカソン, YANS運営委員特別賞.
2023.12 対話システムライブコンペティション6 シチュエーショントラック, 優秀賞.

Academic Service

Reviewer: SIGDIAL 2026, PRICAI 2026.

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