Wenxuan Zhang 张雯轩

wxzhang [at] sutd.edu.sg

National Research Foundation (NRF) Fellow

SUTD Assistant Professor
Information Systems Technology and Design Pillar
Singapore University of Technology and Design

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I'm a tenure-track Assistant Professor at the Information Systems Technology and Design (ISTD) Pillar, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), where I hold the SUTD Assistant Professorship (SAP) research award. I'm also a Singapore National Research Foundation (NRF) Fellow (Class of 2026). Before joining SUTD, I was a research scientist at Alibaba Group Singapore. I obtained my Ph.D. from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, advised by Prof. Wai Lam.

My research spans natural language processing, large language models, large audio-language models, and LLM agents. I lead the iNLP Lab, where we work toward AI systems that stay reliable and efficient for diverse people, languages, and real-world settings. Much of that has centered on multilingual and multicultural LLMs, and increasingly on collective intelligence: how AI agents behave, coordinate, and evolve when they interact with each other and with people. Along the way, we've released open models and benchmarks widely used by the community, such as SeaLLMs, Babel, M3Exam, and DR-Arena.

My work has been featured in the AAAI New Faculty Highlight and received a SAC Highlight award at ACL 2026. I've also received the Alistar (阿里星) award (with Alibaba), named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia 2026 list, and recognized among the World's Top 2% Scientists.

News

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• [Aug 2026] The CFP for PlurVA-LLM, the First Workshop on Pluralistic Value Alignment of LLMs @ AACL-IJCNLP 2026, is now open — submissions welcome!
• [Aug 2026] New openings for 2–3 Research Assistants: see Openings for details
• [Jul 2026] 🏆 DR-Arena won a SAC Highlight award at ACL 2026!
• [Jul 2026] Congrats to Ryan Lee on receiving the AISG PhD Fellowship!
• [Jul 2026] Welcome Yuchen (Tsinghua U) and Jingshen (Tianjin U) joining us as visiting students!
• [Jul 2026] Invited to serve as an Area Chair for AAAI 2027
• [May 2026] Honored to be named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia list!
• [Apr 2026] We have 6 papers accepted to ACL 2026, see you in San Diego :)
• [Feb 2026] Excited to share that I'm awarded NRF Fellow (Class of 2026)!
• [Jan 2026] Happy to share that we have 4 papers accepted to ICLR 2026 (out of 4 submissions!)