PhD in Computer Science, 2020
UC Santa Barbara
BS in Computer Science, 2015
Zhejiang University
Xin (Eric) Wang is 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 and Embodied AI. He obtained his Ph.D. degree from UC Santa Barbara and Bachelor’s degree from Zhejiang University. He worked at Google AI, Facebook AI Research, 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, and Amazon Alexa Prize Awards, as well as faculty gift awards from eBay, Snap, Adobe, etc.