Xin Wang

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 building embodied AI agents that can communicate with humans using natural language to perform real-world multimodal tasks. He obtained his Ph.D. degree from UC Santa Barbara and Bachelor's degree from Zhejiang University. He also worked at Google AI, Facebook AI Research, Microsoft Research, and Adobe Research.

Xin has served as Area Chair for ACL, NAACL, EMNLP, ICLR, etc., and Senior Program Committee (SPC) for AAAI and IJCAI. He organized multiple workshops and tutorials at CVPR, ICCV, ACL, NAACL, AACL, etc. He has received a CVPR Best Student Paper Award (2019), an Amazon Alexa Prize Award (2022-2023), a Google Faculty Research Award (2022-2023), etc.

Research Interests

Xin's research interests include Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision, and Machine Learning, with an emphasis on building multimodal embodied agents that can communicate with humans using natural language to perform real-world tasks.

• Natural Language Processing (natural language grounding, knowledge reasoning, fairness and bias, multilingualism)
• Computer Vision (vision and language, visual navigation and robotics, activity understanding in videos)
• Machine Learning (multimodal machine learning, self-supervised learning, reinforcement learning, efficiency, causality)