BEng, PhD, FHEA
Lecturer
- About
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- Email Address
- ruizhe.li@abdn.ac.uk
- School/Department
- School of Natural and Computing Sciences
Biography
Ruizhe Li is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the Aberdeen - South China Normal University (SCNU) Joint Institute in the School of Natural Computing Sciences/Business School, the University of Aberdeen. He is associated with Natural Language Processing (NLP) group, the Machine Learning (ML) group and Edinburgh clinical NLP group. He was a postdoc research fellow in the Web Intelligence Group, affiliated with the Centre for Artificial Intelligence at University College London (UCL). He received his PhD from the Sheffield NLP group, the Department of Computer Science at the University of Sheffield. He completed his bachelor's degree in BEng Electronic Information & Engineering at Shanghai University, China.
Research Interests: Interpretability of LLMs, Multimodal LLMs
For more details, please visit my personal website: https://www.ruizhe.space/
I am looking for highly motivated PhD students interested in NLP and ML. Please contact me for any enquiries.
Qualifications
- Fellow of HEA2025 - University of Aberdeen
Internal Memberships
SCNU JI Outreach Officer
Latest Publications
Leveraging Large Language Models Knowledge Enhancement Dual-Stage Fine-Tuning Framework for Recommendation
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsAnchored Answers: Unravelling Positional Bias in GPT-2's Multiple-Choice Questions
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsMarco-Bench-MIF: On Multilingual Instruction-Following Capability of Large Language
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsAdaptive Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Conversational Systems
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsLeveraging Medical Knowledge Graphs Into Large Language Models for Diagnosis Prediction: Design and Application Study
JMIR AI, vol. 4, e58670Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.2196/58670
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstreams/683c361f-85d7-4f64-98c2-27505046224a/download
Prizes and Awards
- Best Poster Award at the 2nd Workshop on Multimodal AI 2024
- ACL 2023 Area Chair Award
- Outstanding Reviewer at EMNLP 2020
- Best Paper Runner-up at INLG 2019
- Research
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Research Overview
- Multimodality LLMs
- Knowledge Graphs
- LLMs Reasoning
- Explainable LLMs.
Research Areas
Accepting PhDs
I am currently accepting PhDs in Computing Science.
Please get in touch if you would like to discuss your research ideas further.

Research Specialisms
- Artificial Intelligence
- Natural Language Processing
- Machine Learning
Our research specialisms are based on the Higher Education Classification of Subjects (HECoS) which is HESA open data, published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence.
Funding and Grants
- PI, Gemma 2 Academic Program GCP Credit Award, Google, $10,000, 2024-2025
- PI, Deep-learning-based Modelling of Electromechanical Coupling for Bone Conduction Transducers, The Royal Society International Exchanges 2023 Cost Share (NSFC), £24,000, 2024-2026
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Leveraging Large Language Models Knowledge Enhancement Dual-Stage Fine-Tuning Framework for Recommendation
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsAnchored Answers: Unravelling Positional Bias in GPT-2's Multiple-Choice Questions
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsMarco-Bench-MIF: On Multilingual Instruction-Following Capability of Large Language
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsAdaptive Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Conversational Systems
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsLeveraging Medical Knowledge Graphs Into Large Language Models for Diagnosis Prediction: Design and Application Study
JMIR AI, vol. 4, e58670Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.2196/58670
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstreams/683c361f-85d7-4f64-98c2-27505046224a/download
LLM-Generated Personalized Analogies to Foster AI Literacy in Adult Novices
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.58459/icce.2024.4809
Aspect-aware semantic feature enhanced networks for multimodal aspect-based sentiment analysis
Journal of Supercomputing, vol. 81, no. 1, 64Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11227-024-06472-4
Noise-aware Speech Enhancement using Diffusion Probabilistic Model
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2024-929
GenTranslate: Large Language Models are Generative Multilingual Speech and Machine Translators
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsListen Again and Choose the Right Answer: A New Paradigm for Automatic Speech Recognition with Large Language Models
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings