My name is Tangzheng Lian, and I am currently a final-year PhD candidate in the Social AI & Robotics Lab (SAIR), led by Dr. Oya Celiktutan, in the Department of Engineering at King’s College London. I am fortunate to be fully funded by the competitive Natural, Mathematical & Engineering Sciences (NMES) Faculty PhD Studentship at King’s. During my PhD, I have also had the opportunity to work with Dr Dimitrios Kollias at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL). My research interests include Trustworthy/Responsible AI, Algorithmic Fairness, Out-of-Distribution (OOD) Generalization, Vision-Language Models (VLMs), and Affective Computing.

Prior to King’s, I was a Research Assistant at the Computing and Informatics Research Center (CIRC) at Nottingham Trent University, where I worked with Dr. Doratha Vinkemeier. I completed my MSc in Computer Science (Distinction) at the University of Birmingham and a BEng in Telecommunication Engineering at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT).

I am always keen to discuss exciting ideas in broader CV/ML topics. If you work on similar topics and would like to connect and collaborate, feel free to drop me an email for a chat online or in person (London).