Hongyi Wen

Hongyi Wen is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at NYU Shanghai. Professor Wen holds a PhD in Information Science from Cornell University. He received his BEng in Computer Science from Tsinghua University. His research interest lies in developing human-centered AI, with applications in machine learning, recommender systems, and personalization in education and health.

Select Publications

• Guo Y, Xie L, Chen Z, Yu K, Po R, Yang G, Wetzstein G,  Wen H. ImageGem: In-the-wild Generative Image Interaction Dataset for Generative Model Personalization. ICCV 2025.
• Xie L, Teng X, Ke S, Wen H, Wang S. Reveal and Release: Iterative LLM Unlearning with Self-generated Data. EMNLP 2025.
• Guo Y, Liu H, and Wen H. 2024. GEMRec: Towards Generative Model Recommendation. WSDM 2024 Demo.
• Hendy M, Sarkar A, Tuluk U, Jiang Y, Teng X, and Wen H. 2024. KiwiNotebook: Interactive Computational Notebook Enhanced by Retrieval-Augmented Language Models. CHI 2024 Workshop.
• Wen H, Yi X, Yao T, Tang J, Hong L, and Chi E. 2022. Distributionally-robust Recommendations for Improving Worst-case User Experience. WWW 2022.

Education 

• PhD, Information Science
  Cornell University
• BEng, Computer Science and Technology
  Tsinghua University