UCSB Computer Science

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 va