Zhihui Chen
Ph.D. Student in Artificial Intelligence, National University of Singapore

I am currently a first-year PhD student at the National University of Singapore, supervised by Prof. Mengling Feng.

Reviewer for NIPS, IJCAI, ACM TIST, with over 10 papers reviewed.

Research Interests: Trustworthy and Agentic LLM • Multi-modality Intelligence in Healthcare

Looking for a summer 26' internship!! 🙏


Education
  • National University of Singapore
    National University of Singapore
    Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence
    Jan. 2025 - present
  • The University of Hong Kong
    The University of Hong Kong
    M.Sc. in Artificial Intelligence
    Sep. 2022 - Jul. 2024
  • The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
    The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
    B.Sc. in Statistics, Data Science Stream
    Sep. 2018 - May. 2022
Honors & Awards
  • Full Ph.D. Scholarship, National University of Singapore
    2025
  • Outstanding College Graduate, CUHK-Shenzhen Diligentia College
    2022
  • Undergraduate Research Excellence Award, CUHK-Shenzhen
    2021
News
2025
[EMNLP] One first-author paper accepted to EMNLP 2025. Finally! 🎉
Aug 20
[NUS] Started my PhD journey at NUS! Ready to debug my life and my code simultaneously 🐛
Jan 15
[Award] Received full PhD scholarship from NUS. Time to invest in more coffee ☕
Jan 01
2024
[HKU] Graduated from HKU with M.Sc. in AI. One step closer to teaching robots to take over the world (responsibly) 🤖
Jul 15
[NAMRC] Paper on manufacturing efficiency analysis accepted to NAMRC 2024.
Apr 15
Selected Publications (view all )
DivScore: Zero-Shot Detection of LLM-Generated Text in Specialized Domains
DivScore: Zero-Shot Detection of LLM-Generated Text in Specialized Domains

Zhihui Chen, Kai He, Yucheng Huang, Yunxiao Zhu, Mengling Feng

Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) 2025

Detecting LLM-generated text in specialized and high-stakes domains like medicine and law is crucial for combating misinformation and ensuring authenticity. We propose DivScore, a zero-shot detection framework using normalized entropy-based scoring and domain knowledge distillation to robustly identify LLM-generated text in specialized domains. Experiments show that DivScore consistently outperforms state-of-the-art detectors, with 14.4% higher AUROC and 64.0% higher recall at 0.1% false positive rate threshold.

DivScore: Zero-Shot Detection of LLM-Generated Text in Specialized Domains

Zhihui Chen, Kai He, Yucheng Huang, Yunxiao Zhu, Mengling Feng

Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) 2025

Detecting LLM-generated text in specialized and high-stakes domains like medicine and law is crucial for combating misinformation and ensuring authenticity. We propose DivScore, a zero-shot detection framework using normalized entropy-based scoring and domain knowledge distillation to robustly identify LLM-generated text in specialized domains. Experiments show that DivScore consistently outperforms state-of-the-art detectors, with 14.4% higher AUROC and 64.0% higher recall at 0.1% false positive rate threshold.

All publications