Human-Centered AI
Designing intelligent systems that prioritize human agency well-being.
Hi, I'm Liam
I'm a PhD student at the University of Cambridge, working at the intersection of human-centered AI and healthcare. My research spans language models, multimodal sensing, and personalized health technologies, with a focus on making AI both effective and healthy to interact with.
Research Interests
AI for Health
Turning patient-generated, physiological, and behavioral data into useful insights for people and clinicians.
Multimodal Intelligent Systems
Combining language models, sensing, and personalization to understand real-world health context.
Featured Projects
SnappyMeal
Context-aware and flexible logging. Specifically nutritional logging. Paper is in submission.
Read More →Multimodal Cancer Risk Analysis
What AI techniques and modalities can we use to analyze the risk of cancer patients?
Read More →Preconsultation Chatbot
Address survey fatigue while giving physicians best context for preconsultations. Paper is in submission.
Read More →Publications
Brenna Li, Liam Bakar, ..., Alex Mariakakis, and Khai N. Truong. (2026). Digitizing the Pre-consultation Experience: Impacts and Design Recommendations. Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26), Article 776, 1–17.
Liam Bakar, ..., Shwetak Patel, Vikram Iyer. (2025). SnappyMeal: Design and Longitudinal Evaluation of a Multimodal AI Food Logging Application. arXiv.
Latest Thoughts
February 5, 2026
Game Theory IRL
Games are everywhere in our life, but should we be modeling our lives to win all these games? My thoughts on how to succeed in social relationships <3
Read More →July 18, 2025
Are LLMs the new calculators?
Large language models are some of the most powerful tools at the hands of individuals with internet access. However, should they be used at such high frequencies?
Read More →July 16, 2025
USA Men's Volleyball
Is the US falling behind in volleyball? I have some thoughts on the state of men's volleyball.
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