Xin (Eric) Wang
Head of Research @ Simular
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Director, UCSC ERIC Lab
Jack Baskin School of Engineering
Founding Faculty, UCSC GenAI Center
University of California, Santa Cruz
Affiliate Faculty, UCSC NLP MS Program
Bio
Xin (Eric) Wang is Head of Research at Simular and an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at UC Santa Cruz. His research interests include Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision, and Machine Learning, with an emphasis on Multimodal, Generative, and Embodied AI. He worked at Google Research, Facebook AI Research (FAIR), Microsoft Research, and Adobe Research.
Xin has served as Area Chair for conferences such as ACL, NAACL, EMNLP, ICLR, and NeurIPS, as well as a Senior Program Committee for AAAI and IJCAI. He organized workshops and tutorials at conferences such as ACL, NAACL, CVPR, and ICCV. He has received several awards and recognitions for his work, including CVPR Best Student Paper Award, Google Research Faculty Award, Amazon Alexa Prize Awards, and various gift awards from Adobe, Snap, eBay, etc.
Xin has served as Area Chair for conferences such as ACL, NAACL, EMNLP, ICLR, and NeurIPS, as well as a Senior Program Committee for AAAI and IJCAI. He organized workshops and tutorials at conferences such as ACL, NAACL, CVPR, and ICCV. He has received several awards and recognitions for his work, including CVPR Best Student Paper Award, Google Research Faculty Award, Amazon Alexa Prize Awards, and various gift awards from Adobe, Snap, eBay, etc.
Teaching
Winter 2021
Spring 2021
Fall 2021
Winter 2021
Spring 2021
Fall 2021
News
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Two papers accepted to ECCV 2024!
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Two papers accepted to ACL 2024!
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Two papers accepted to NAACL 2024!
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Serving as Area Chair for NeurIPS 2024 and COLM 2024.
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Two workshops are accepted to ACL 2024! Will be co-organizing the 3rd Workshop on Advances in Language and Vision Research (ALVR 2024) and the Fourth International Combined Workshop on Spatial Language Understanding and Grounded Communication for Robotics (SpLU-RoboNLP 2024) in Bangkok, Thailand.
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Serving as Area Chair for NeurIPS 2024 and COLM 2024.
Selected Awards / Honorst
- Amazon Alexa Prize Award (SocialBot Second Place), 2023.
- Amazon Alexa Prize Award (SimBot Third Place), 2023.
- Amazon Alexa Prize Award (TaskBot Finalist, Top 5), 2023.
- Google Faculty Research Award, 2022.
- AAII Interdisciplinary Research Award, 2022.
- UCSB Outstanding Publication Award, 2020.
- CVPR Best Student Paper Award, 2019.
- Top 100 Excellent Undergraduate Students of the Year, China Computer Federation, 2014
Publications
- Facebook AI Research (FAIR), Menlo Park, US
Graduate Researcher, Spring 2019
Mentors: Xinlei Chen, Marcus Rohrbach, Dhruv Batra§ - Microsoft Research AI, Redmond, US
Research Intern, Summer 2018
Mentors: Lei Zhang, Asli Celikyilmaz, Jianfeng Gao
Academic Servicet
- Organizer:
- Tutorial on Self-Supervised Deep Learning for NLP, AACL-IJCNLP 2020
- Area Chair (or Senior Program Committee):
- ICLR 2024
- NeurIPS 2023
- ACL 2023
- ICLR 2023
- EMNLP 2022
- NAACL 2022
- ACL 2022
- AACL-IJCNLP 2022
- IJCAI-ECAI 2022
- NLPCC 2021 (Multimodality)
- NAACL 2021 (Interpretability and Analysis of Models for NLP)
- EMNLP 2020 (Interpretability and Analysis of Models for NLP)
- Session Chair:
- EMNLP 2020 (Language Grounding to Vision, Robotics and Beyond)
- AAAI 2019 (Natural Language Processing)
- Program Committee: ACL, NAACL, EMNLP, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, ICLR, AAAI, IJCAI, CoRL
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