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杜邦得

Bangde Du

Ph.D. Student, Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University

I study how large language models can empower, understand, and simulate people.

Portrait of Bangde Du

Research Focus

Understanding people through language models.

My research focuses on large language models, agents, personalization, and digital twins, with an emphasis on how AI systems can better model human values, behaviors, and communication patterns.

  • LLM Evaluation
  • Agents
  • Personalization
  • Digital Twins
  • Persona Simulation
  • User Behavior Analysis

News

Recent Updates

The hallucination neuroimaging study was accepted to ICML 2026.

The public opinion simulation paper was accepted to KDD 2026.

TwinVoice was accepted to ACL 2026 Findings.

SimVBG was accepted to EMNLP 2025.

The EEG study on polarized short-video content was published in Scientific Reports.

Selected Publications

Papers

See the full and most recent list on Google Scholar.

How do Humans Process AI-generated Hallucination Contents: a Neuroimaging Study

Shuqi Zhu, Yi Zhong, Ziyi Ye, Bangde Du, Yujia Zhou, Qingyao Ai, Yiqun Liu

ICML 2026

Parametric Social Identity Injection and Diversification in Public Opinion Simulation

Hexi Wang, Yujia Zhou, Bangde Du, Qingyao Ai, Yiqun Liu

KDD 2026

TwinVoice: A Multi-dimensional Benchmark Towards Digital Twins via LLM Persona Simulation

Bangde Du, Minghao Guo, Songming He, Ziyi Ye, Xi Zhu, Weihang Su, Shuqi Zhu, Yujia Zhou, Yongfeng Zhang, Qingyao Ai, Yiqun Liu

ACL 2026 Findings

SimVBG: Simulating Individual Values by Backstory Generation

Bangde Du, Ziyi Ye, Zhijing Wu, Monika A. Jankowska, Shuqi Zhu, Qingyao Ai, Yujia Zhou, Yiqun Liu

EMNLP 2025 Main Conference

Understanding the Effect of Opinion Polarization in Short Video Browsing

Bangde Du, Ziyi Ye, Zhijing Wu, Monika Jankowska, Qingyao Ai, Yiqun Liu

SIGIR 2025

EEG Reveals the Cognitive Impact of Polarized Content in Short Video Scenarios

Bangde Du, Ziyi Ye, Monika Jankowska, Zhijing Wu, Qingyao Ai, Yujia Zhou, Yiqun Liu

Scientific Reports, 2025

Education

Academic Background

Tsinghua University

Ph.D. Student, Department of Computer Science and Technology

Awards

Honors & Scholarships

Tsinghua Friends - Bosch Talent Scholarship, First Class

2026

Tsinghua University Scholarship

2022

Second Prize, 40th Tsinghua University Challenge Cup

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