Xin (Eric) Wang
About
Xin (Eric) Wang is an Assistant Professor in The Computer Science Department at UC Santa Barbara and the Head of Research at Simular. His research interests include Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision, and Machine Learning, with an emphasis on Multimodal and Embodied AI Agents. Previously, he was a faculty at UC Santa Cruz and also spent time at Google Research, Meta FAIR, Microsoft Research, and Adobe Research. Eric has served as (Senior) Area Chair for conferences such as ACL, NAACL, EMNLP, ICLR, and NeurIPS, and organized workshops and tutorials at those venues. He has received several awards and recognitions for his work, including Best Paper Awards from CVPR and ICLRW, Google Research Faculty Award, Amazon Alexa Prize Awards, Cisco Research Award, eBay Research Awards, and various gift awards from Adobe, Snap, Microsoft, Cybever, etc.
Research Performance Summary
First Recorded Paper
Multimodal Transfer: A Hierarchical Deep Convolutional Neural Network for Fast Artistic Style Transfer
Year: 2017
Citations: 223
Venue: CVPR 2017
Latest Recorded Paper
Hidden in Plain Sight: Probing Implicit Reasoning in Multimodal Language Models
Year: 2025
Citations: 0
Venue: EMNLP 2025
Last 10 Years Publication Activity
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