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.

Short Bio

Dr. Wenxuan Zhang is an incoming tenure-track assistant professor at the Information Systems Technology and Design (ISTD) pillar, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD). He is currently a research scientist at Alibaba DAMO Academy in Singapore. He received his Ph.D. degree from the Chinese University of Hong Kong supervised by Prof. Wai Lam, and then joined Alibaba Singapore with the Ali Star award. His primary research areas are natural language processing (NLP) and trustworthy AI. His research aims to advance NLP models that are inclusive, supporting diverse languages and cultures through multilingual language models, while also trustworthy by improving the understanding, safety, and robustness of the models. He has published over 40 papers in top-tier AI conferences and journals, including ICLR, NeurIPS, ACL, EMNLP, SIGIR, WWW, TOIS, and TKDE. He is the tech lead of the SeaLLMs project (Large Language Models specialized for Southeast Asian languages), which has received significant community attention with over 250k downloads. His multiple papers have been recognized as among the top 2% or top 3% most cited at their respective conferences. He also regularly serves as an area chair and on program committees for multiple leading conferences and journals.