William Wang, UC Santa Barbara Computer Science (original) (raw)

Bio highlights:

* 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

* 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

Full Biography

Director, UCSB NLP Group
Director, Center for Responsible Machine Learning

Mellichamp Professor of Artificial Intelligence
University of California, Santa Barbara
Henley Hall, Room 2005
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
william@cs.ucsb.edu
Follow @WilliamWangNLP
PhD, Carnegie Mellon University

Founder and CEO, ChipAgents.ai

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

PhDs and Postdocs Mentored

Wenyue Hua (Postdoc, 2025, Microsoft Research)
Weixi Feng (Ph.D., 2025, Amazon)
Michael Saxon (Ph.D., 2025, UW)
Xinyi Wang (Ph.D., 2025, Princeton)
Wenda Xu (Ph.D., 2025, Google)
Jiachen Li (Ph.D., 2025, Res. Scientist, xAI)
Yujie Lu (Ph.D., 2025, Res. Scientist, Meta GenAI)Liangming Pan (Postdoc, 2024, Asst. Prof. at Arizona)
Xianjun Yang (Ph.D., 2024, Meta GenAI)
Yi-Lin Tuan (Ph.D., 2024, Startup)
Wanrong Zhu (Ph.D., 2024, Res. Scientist at Adobe)
Tsu-Jui (Ray) Fu (Ph.D., 2024, Res. Scientist at Apple AI/ML)
Alon Albalak (Ph.D., 2024, Res. Scientist at SynthLabs)
Sharon Levy (Ph.D., 2023, Asst. Prof. at Rutgers)
Zhiyu Chen (Ph.D., 2022, Asst. Prof. at UT-Dallas)
Yijun Xiao (Ph.D., 2022, Research Scientist at Meta AI)
Wenhu Chen (Ph.D., 2021, Asst. Prof. at Univ. Waterloo)
Wenhan Xiong (Ph.D., 2021, Research Scientist at xAI)
Xin Eric Wang (Ph.D., 2020, Asst. Prof. at UC Santa Cruz)
Mai Elsherief (Ph.D., 2019, Asst. Prof. at Northeastern)
Vivek Kulkarni (Postdoc, 2019, Research Scientist at Twitter)