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Xin (Eric) Wang

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Xin (Eric) Wang

Assistant Professor
Computer Science

Affiliation: 
Computer Science

Contact

2104 Harold Frank Hall

UC Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-5110

Honors

J.P. Morgan Chase Faculty Research Award; Best Paper Award, ICLR Agentic AI for Science; eBay Faculty Award; Cisco Research Award; Finalist, UC Santa Cruz Innovator of the Year Award; TaskBot Finalist, Amazon Alexa Prize Award; Google Faculty Research Award; AAII Interdisciplinary Award

Research

Visual Computing and Interaction, Machine Learning and Data Mining

Wang aims to build intelligent multimodal AI agents that can understand the world, collaborate with humans, and perform real-world tasks—from everyday activities to high-stakes missions. His work spans multimodal representation learning, embodied AI for human-agent collaboration, and the ethical design of trustworthy AI systems. Drawing on methodologies from machine learning, computer vision, natural language processing, and robotics—with insights from cognitive science and neuroscience—his research develops generalizable, efficient, and socially responsible agents that perceive, communicate, and act in complex environments.

Education

PhD   Computer Science, UC Santa Barbara
BE     Computer Science, Zhejiang University