Yijun Liu 刘奕君 she/her

Hi there :) I'm a second-year Ph.D. candidate at the Siebel School of Computing and Data Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where I'm gratefully advised by Tal August in the Language Interaction Lab. I design and study AI writing- and feedback-support systems grounded in human expertise, spanning human-computer interaction, human-AI collaboration, and human-centered NLP.

You can contact me at: yijun6 at illinois dot edu

FOXGLOVE: Understanding Goal-Oriented and Anchored Writing Feedback from Experts and LLMs on Argumentative Essays

Yijun Liu, Yifan Song, John Gallagher, Sarah Sterman, Tal August

From Crafting Text to Crafting Thought: Grounding Intelligent Writing Support to Writing Center Pedagogy

Yijun Liu, John Gallagher, Sarah Sterman, and Tal August (CHI' 26) (In2Writing'25, Best Paper Award)

Needling Through the Threads: A Visualization Tool for Navigating Threaded Online Discussions

Yijun Liu, Frederick Choi, Eshwar Chandrasekharan (CHI' 26)

Unmasking Dunning-Kruger Efect in Visual Reasoning and Visual Data Analysis

Mengyu Chen, Yijun Liu, Emily Wall (VIS'24)

Predicting Atrial Fibrillation Ablation Outcomes: A Machine Learning Approach Leveraging a Large Administrative Claims Database

Yijun Liu, Mustapha Oloko-Oba, Kathryn Wood, Michael S. Lloyd, Joyce C. Ho, Vicki Stover Hertzberg (JMIR Cardio)

Other Projects

StarTales: Imagining Interactive Storyreading with Large Language Models

Yijun Liu (CHI'26 STAR Workshop)

Machine Learning-Based Identification of High-Risk Patterns in Atrial Fibrillation Ablation Outcomes

Mustapha Oloko-Oba, Yijun Liu, Kathryn Wood, Michael S. Lloyd, Joyce C. Ho, Vicki Stover Hertzberg

Data Analysis and Visualization

A Student Observatory for Cybersecurity Education Research

Yijun Liu, James Mattei, Daniel Votipka (Presented @ Grace Hopper 2022)