Wenxuan Zhang (张雯轩)

Senior Algorithm Engineer (算法专家)
Language Technology Lab
Singapore R&D Center
DAMO Academy, Alibaba Group

Contact: isakzhang [at] gmail.com
More about me: Google Scholar | Blog Posts | LinkedIn | X (Twitter)

About me

I am currently a research scientist at Language Technology Lab, Alibaba DAMO Academy. Prior to that, I obtained my Ph.D. degree from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, under the supervision of Prof. Wai Lam.

My research aims to advance NLP models that are inclusive, supporting diverse languages and cultures (e.g., multilingual large language models), while also trustworthy through techniques that improve safety and robustness of language models. I am passionate about ensuring NLP benefits people equally by making systems accessible, controllable and reliable.

Current research projects are (full publications can be found here or Google Scholar):

• [Multilingual] Understanding and enhancing multilingual capabilities of LLMs: SeaLLMs
• [Safety] Ensuring safety of LLMs from development to deployment: multilingual jailbreak
• [Evaluation] Comprehensive and fair evaluation of foundation models: M3Exam, Auto-Arena

Feel free to drop me an email if you want to collaborate. Research intern positions are also available based in Singapore or China (Hangzhou).

News

• [Aug 2024] I will serve as an Area Chair for ICLR 2025
• [July 2024] 🔥 SeaLLMs 3 is here - the latest iteration of SeaLLMs with SOTA performance of diverse tasks while specifically enhanced to be more trustworthy. Check out the model and paper!
• [June 2024] SeaLLMs was awarded the "Best Innovate for Impact Award" by The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) of United Nations.
• [May 2024] M3Exam was officialy used to evaluate GPT-4o's multilingual and multimodal capability.
• [Apr 2024] I am honored to speak at SCS and IMDA about our SeaLLMs project and the evaluation / safety measures we've implemented during the development.
• [Jan 2024] Two papers accepted to ICLR 2024: multilingual jailbreak challenge & plug-and-play policy planner for LLM-based dialog agent.

Professional Service

• Area Chair: EMNLP 2024, ICLR 2025
• Regular PC Member (or Reviewer): ACL, EMNLP, ACL Rolling Review, COLING; NeurIPS, AAAI, IJCAI; SIGKDD, WWW, WSDM
• Journal Reviewer: ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS), IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB), Neurocomputing, Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing (TASLP)

Teaching & Talk

• July 2024: invited keynote talk at Singapore ACM SIGKDD Symposium 2024.
• Apr 2024: invited talk at SCS and IMDA about our SeaLLMs project and the evaluation / safety measures.
• Mar 2024: invited talk on multilingual LLMs at NTU.
• Feb 2024: invited talk on multilingual LLMs at SUTD AI Mega Centre.
• Sep 2023: invited talk on M3Exam at multilingual & multimodal LLMs session of MLNLP 2023
• Aug 2023: half-day tutorial "Sentiment Analysis in the Era of LLMs" at IJCAI 2023. [slides]
• Mar 2023: invited talk "A Survey on Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis" at Singapore Symposium on Sentiment Analysis (S3A).
• Guest lecture "Neural models for text" for SEEM5680 Text Mining Models and Applications