William Yang Wang
Scholar

William Yang Wang

Google Scholar ID: gf8Ms_8AAAAJ
Mellichamp Chair Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara
Natural Language ProcessingMachine LearningArtificial IntelligenceLanguage and Vision
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
27,088
 
H-index
79
 
i10-index
273
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
186
list available
Contact
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • - IEEE SPS Pierre-Simon Laplace Award, 2024
  • - CRA Undergraduate Research Faculty Mentoring Award, 2023
  • - British Computer Society - Karen Spärck Jones Award, 2022
  • - NSF CAREER Award, 2021
  • - IEEE AI's 10 to Watch, 2020
  • - CVPR Best Student Paper Award, 2019
  • - DARPA Young Faculty Award, 2018
  • - Multiple papers accepted to EMNLP, NeurIPS, ICLR, EACL, etc.
Research Experience
  • - Founder and CEO, ChipAgents.ai
  • - Mentored multiple PhD students and postdocs, including Wenyue Hua, Weixi Feng, Michael Saxon, etc.
Education
  • - PhD, Carnegie Mellon University
Background
  • - Mellichamp Professor of Artificial Intelligence, UC Santa Barbara, 2019-present
  • - Director, UCSB Center for Responsible Machine Learning, 2019-present
  • - Director, UCSB Mind and Machine Intelligence Initiative, 2019-present
  • - Director, UCSB NLP Group, 2016-present
  • - Research Interests: Natural Language Processing, Large Language Models, Language & Vision, Machine Learning, Science of Generative AI, Science of LLMs, Artificial Intelligence, Neuro-Symbolic AI & Reasoning, Responsible AI