Scholar
Zhecan James Wang
Google Scholar ID: uqHPnmgAAAAJ
Columbia University, UCLA
Citations & Impact
Citations
1,150
H-index
15
i10-index
18
Publications
20
Co-authors
0
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Publications
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Published 16 papers in top-tier conferences and 7 in top-tier workshops, secured 8 AI-related patents, and amassed 1000+ citations. Achieved top performance on the DARPA Visual Commonsense Reasoning leaderboard and SOTA performance on VCR, VQA v2, SNLI-VE, A-OKVQA, and OKVQA. Led a 12-student team to first place in the ICCV Microsoft Global MS-Celeb-1M Challenge.
Research Experience
- Conducted collaborative research projects at Google Brain/DeepMind's multimodal (Gemini) team for nearly two years, led by Dr. Quoc V. Le; involved in a 1-year collaborative research project at Microsoft Research as an intern/part-time researcher under the multimodal team led by Dr. Lu Yuan.
Education
- Ph.D. in Computer Science at Columbia University, graduated in August 2024, primarily advised by Prof. Shih-Fu Chang (Morris A. and Alma Schapiro Professor, Dean of the Columbia Engineering, a Fellow of the National Academy of Engineering and ACM); also co-advised by Prof. Kai-Wei Chang at UCLA-NLP. Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Natural Language Processing Group of Computer Science at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), since September 2024, under the mentorship of Prof. Kai-Wei Chang (Amazon Scholar and Sloan Fellow) and Prof. Nanyun Peng.
Background
- Research Interest: Multimodal Representation, Commonsense Reasoning. Professional Field: Natural Language Processing, Multimodal Learning, Explainable and Reliable Reasoning, Neural-Symbolic Learning.
Miscellany
- Currently applying as a Co-PI for industry funds like the Google Research Scholar Program and AI for Math Fund from Renaissance Philanthropy.
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