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Wenxuan Zhang (张雯轩)

Contact: isakzhang [at] gmail.com
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I will join SUTD as an Assistant Professor in early 2025. I am actively looking for highly motivated PhD students (2025 Fall) / Research Assistants / Visiting students, check out this page on how to get involved.

About me [Short bio]

I will join Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in early 2025. Currently, I am a research scientist at Language Technology Lab, Alibaba DAMO Academy, Singapore. Prior to that, I received my Ph.D. from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, where I was advised by Prof. Wai Lam.

My research interests lie broadly in natural language processing and machine learning, though most of my research are centered around large language models these days. I am passinate 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 understanding, safety and robustness of language models.

Research projects I'm working on / plan to work on:
  • [Multilingual] Understanding and enhancing multilingual capabilities of LLMs (SeaLLMs Project)
  • [Safety] Ensuring safety of LLMs from development to deployment (MultiJail)
  • [Evaluation] Comprehensive and fair evaluation of foundation models (M3Exam, Auto-Arena)
  • [Accessiblity] Making LLMs more accessible to general users, through model compression or small-large model collaboration

News

  • [Oct 2024] Glad to be invited to give a keynote talk at SSNLP 2024.
  • [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.
  • [Nov 2023] We release SeaLLMs - the first LLM dedicated to languages in Southeast Asia region.

Selected Honors & Awards

  • Alibaba Star, Alibaba Group, 2022
  • National Scholarship, 2017
  • National Cyber Security Scholarship (Only 100 undergraduates in China are awarded every year), 2017
  • National Scholarship, 2016

Professional Service

  • Area Chair: ICLR 2025, NAACL 2025, EMNLP 2024
  • Regular PC Member (or Reviewer): ACL, EMNLP, ACL Rolling Review, COLING; NeurIPS, ICML, AAAI, IJCAI; SIGKDD, WWW, WSDM
  • Journal Reviewer: Computational Linguistics (CL), 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