Jay Wang | Machine Learning + Visualization Researcher (original) (raw)
Zijie Jay Wang
Hi, I'm Jay. I'm a safety researcher at OpenAI.
My research focuses on making AI more accessible, interpretable, and accountable, by designing and developing novel interactive interfaces for people to easily and enjoyably interact with machine learning systems at scale.
I received my ML PhD from Georgia Tech, advised by Polo Chau, with support from Apple and J.P. Morgan fellowships, and honored as a Forbes 30 Under 30 in Science.
News
Aug. 13, 2024
I'm thrilled to begin my first full-time role as a safety researcher at OpenAI. I have also moved to San Francisco! 🌉
July 26, 2024
I have successfully defended my PhD thesis! Huge thanks to my incredible committee members: Polo Chau, Judy Hoffman, Munmun De Choudhury, Lauren Wilcox, Jenn Wortman Vaughan, and Rich Caruana!! 🎓
July 10, 2024
I will attend SIGIR'24 in DC to present MeMemo, a JavaScript library that enables vector search and vector database in web browsers. MeMemo won the Best Short Paper, Honorable Mention Award! Let's meet up! 🏛️
April 25, 2024
Farsight is recognized with a Best Paper, Honorable Mention award at CHI 2024! I will attend CHI in Honolulu. Let's meet up! 🌊
Featured Publications
@inproceedings{wangMeMemoOndeviceRetrieval2024, title = {{{MeMemo}}: {{On-device Retrieval Augmentation}} for {{Private}} and {{Personalized Text Generation}}}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 47th {{International ACM SIGIR Conference}} on {{Research}} and {{Development}} in {{Information Retrieval}}}, author = {Wang, Zijie J. and Chau, Duen Horng}, year = {2024}, urldate = {2024-06-26}, langid = {english} }
@inproceedings{wangFarsightFosteringResponsible2024, title = {Farsight: {{Fostering Responsible AI Awareness During AI Application Prototyping}}}, booktitle = {{{CHI Conference}} on {{Human Factors}} in {{Computing Systems}}}, author = {Wang, Zijie J. and Kulkarni, Chinmay and Wilcox, Lauren and Terry, Michael and Madaio, Michael}, year = {2024} }
@article{wangWordflowSocialPrompt2024, title = {Wordflow: {{Social Prompt Engineering}} for {{Large Language Models}}}, shorttitle = {Wordflow}, author = {Wang, Zijie J. and Chakravarthy, Aishwarya and Munechika, David and Chau, Duen Horng}, year = {2024}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/2401.14447}, urldate = {2024-01-29}, archiveprefix = {arxiv}, journal = {arXiv 2401.14447} }
@article{wangSuperNOVADesignStrategies2023, title = {{{SuperNOVA}}: {{Design Strategies}} and {{Opportunities}} for {{Interactive Visualization}} in {{Computational Notebooks}}}, shorttitle = {{{SuperNOVA}}}, author = {Wang, Zijie J. and Munechika, David and Lee, Seongmin and Chau, Duen Horng}, year = {2024}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/2305.03039}, booktitle = {Extended {{Abstracts}} of the 2022 {{CHI Conference}} on {{Human Factors}} in {{Computing Systems}}}, publisher = {{ACM}} }
@inproceedings{wangWizMapScalableInteractive2023, title = {{{WizMap}}: {{Scalable}} Interactive Visualization for Exploring Large Machine Learning Embeddings}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 3: {{System}} Demonstrations)}, author = {Wang, Zijie J. and Hohman, Fred and Chau, Duen Horng}, year = {2023}, url = {https://aclanthology.org/2023.acl-demo.50} }
@inproceedings{wangDiffusionDBLargescalePrompt2023, title = {{{DiffusionDB}}: {{A}} Large-Scale Prompt Gallery Dataset for Text-to-Image Generative Models}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: {{Long}} Papers)}, author = {Wang, Zijie J. and Montoya, Evan and Munechika, David and Yang, Haoyang and Hoover, Benjamin and Chau, Duen Horng}, year = {2023}, url = {https://aclanthology.org/2023.acl-long.51} }
@inproceedings{wangGAMCoachInteractive2023, title = {{{GAM Coach}}: {{Towards Interactive}} and {{User-centered Algorithmic Recourse}}}, booktitle = {{{CHI Conference}} on {{Human Factors}} in {{Computing Systems}}}, author = {Wang, Zijie J. and Vaughan, Jennifer Wortman and Caruana, Rich and Chau, Duen Horng}, year = {2023}, doi = {10.1145/3544548.3580816} }
(*Authors contributed equally)
@inproceedings{robertsonAnglerHelpingMachine2023, title = {Angler: {{Helping Machine Translation Practitioners Prioritize Model Improvements}}}, booktitle = {{{CHI Conference}} on {{Human Factors}} in {{Computing Systems}}}, author = {Robertson, Samantha and Wang, Zijie J. and Moritz, Dominik and Kery, Mary Beth and Hohman, Fred}, year = {2023}, doi = {10.1145/3544548.3580790}, langid = {english} }
@inproceedings{wangWebSHAPExplainingAny2023, title = {{{WebSHAP}}: {{Towards Explaining Any Machine Learning Models Anywhere}}}, shorttitle = {{{WebSHAP}}}, booktitle = {Companion {{Proceedings}} of the {{Web Conference}} 2023}, author = {Wang, Zijie J. and Chau, Duen Horng}, year = {2023}, doi = {10.1145/3543873.3587362}, }
@inproceedings{wangInterpretabilityThenWhat2022, title = {Interpretability, {{Then What}}? {{Editing Machine Learning Models}} to {{Reflect Human Knowledge}} and {{Values}}}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 28th {{ACM SIGKDD Conference}} on {{Knowledge Discovery}} and {{Data Mining}}}, author = {Wang, Zijie J. and Kale, Alex and Nori, Harsha and Stella, Peter and Nunnally, Mark E. and Chau, Duen Horng and Vorvoreanu, Mihaela and Wortman Vaughan, Jennifer and Caruana, Rich}, year = {2022}, series = {{{KDD}} '22} }
@inproceedings{wangTimberTrekExploringCurating2022, title = {{{TimberTrek}}: {{Exploring}} and {{Curating Sparse Decision Trees}} with {{Interactive Visualization}}}, booktitle = {2022 {{IEEE Visualization Conference}} ({{VIS}})}, author = {Wang, Zijie J. and Zhong, Chudi and Xin, Rui and Takagi, Takuya and Chen, Zhi and Chau, Duen Horng and Rudin, Cynthia and Seltzer, Margo}, year = {2022} }
@inproceedings{wangStickyLandBreaking2022, title = {{{StickyLand}}: {{Breaking}} the {{Linear Presentation}} of {{Computational Notebooks}}}, shorttitle = {{{StickyLand}}}, booktitle = {Extended {{Abstracts}} of the 2022 {{CHI Conference}} on {{Human Factors}} in {{Computing Systems}}}, author = {Wang, Zijie J. and Dai, Katie and Edwards, W. Keith}, year = {2022}, publisher = {{ACM}} }
@article{wangNOVAPracticalMethod2022, title = {{{NOVA}}: {{A Practical Method}} for {{Creating Notebook-Ready Visual Analytics}}}, shorttitle = {{{NOVA}}}, author = {Wang, Zijie J. and Munechika, David and Lee, Seongmin and Chau, Duen Horng}, year = {2022}, month = may, journal = {arXiv:2205.03963 [cs]}, archiveprefix = {arXiv} }
@inproceedings{wangDodrioExploringTransformer2021, title = {Dodrio: {{Exploring Transformer Models}} with {{Interactive Visualization}}}, author = {Wang, Zijie J. and Turko, Robert and Chau, Duen Horng}, shorttitle = {Dodrio}, booktitle = "Proceedings of the Joint Conference of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations", year = {2021}, address = "Online", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", pages = "132--141", url = {https://zijie.wang/papers/dodrio/} }
@article{wangCNNExplainerLearning2020, title = {{{CNN Explainer}}: {{Learning Convolutional Neural Networks}} with {{Interactive Visualization}}}, shorttitle = {{{CNN Explainer}}}, author = {Wang, Zijie J. and Turko, Robert and Shaikh, Omar and Park, Haekyu and Das, Nilaksh and Hohman, Fred and Kahng, Minsuk and Chau, Duen Horng}, journal={IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG)}, publisher={IEEE}, year={2020}, url={https://zijie.wang/papers/cnn-explainer/} }
(*Authors contributed equally)
@inproceedings{wangPuttingHumansNatural2021, title = {Putting Humans in the Natural Language Processing Loop: {{A}} Survey}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the First Workshop on Bridging Human{--}Computer Interaction and Natural Language Processing}, author = {Wang, Zijie J. and Choi, Dongjin and Xu, Shenyu and Yang, Diyi}, year = {2021}, month = apr, pages = {47--52}, publisher = {{Association for Computational Linguistics}}, address = {{Online}}, url = {https://zijie.wang/papers/human-in-the-loop-nlp/} }
@article{wrightComparativeAnalysisIndustry2020, title = {A {{Comparative Analysis}} of {{Industry Human}}-{{AI Interaction Guidelines}}}, author = {Wright, Austin P. and Wang, Zijie J. and Park, Haekyu and Guo, Grace and Sperrle, Fabian and {El-Assady}, Mennatallah and Endert, Alex and Keim, Daniel and Chau, Duen Horng}, year = {2020}, month = oct, eprint = {2010.11761}, journal = {arXiv:2010.11761} }
Fun Projects
RecRec: Interactive recommender for recommendation letter writers, such as for tenure package and green card petition.
Clip2imgur: Convenient macOS command line tool for uploading screen-shots from the clipboard to Imgur.
FaceData: MacOS GUI to auto-annotate facial landmarks from a video. Landmarks can be used to train GANs.
Graphics on the Web: Interactive 2D, 2.5D and 3D computational graphics with shaders and textures, created with HTML canvas and webGL.
Group Assignment Problem: Flexible and robust Mixed Integer Quadratic Programming model written in Julia to solve a real-life optimization problem.
Dean's list Vis: Interactive geo-visualization to explore where UW–Madison Chinese students are from.