Biography

• 04/2023 - present: Scientist, I2R, A*STAR, Singapore

• 09/2021 - 03/2023: Research Fellow, National University of Singapore

• 08/2017 - 05/2021: Ph.D. Student, University of Southern California, USA

• 05/2020 - 08/2020: Research Intern, JD AI Research, USA

• 09/2013 - 07/2017: Undergraduate Student, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China

• 07/2016 - 10/2016: Research Intern, Ontario Tech University, Canada

• 08/2015 - 12/2015: Exchange Student, City University of Hong Kong

• 09/2010 - 07/2013: Student, Jining No.1 High School, Shandong, China

Awards

• APSIPA Sadaoki Furui Prize Paper Award, 2024

• Best Paper Award - C3NLP Workshop, ACL 2024

• APSIPA Sadaoki Furui Prize Paper Award, 2022

• GSG Research Travel Grant, USC, 2019

• Excellent Graduate of Sichuan Province, 2017

• Undergraduate National Scholarship, China, 2016

• Tanglixin Scholarship, UESTC, 2016

• Undergraduate National Scholarship, China, 2015

• Samsung Undergraduate Scholarship, 2015

• Outstanding Student Leadership, UESTC, 2014

Short Bio.

Bin Wang is a Scientist with the Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R, A*STAR, Singapore). Before that, he obtained his PhD degree from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles in 2021 and B.Eng from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. He was a Research Fellow with the National University of Singapore from 2021 to 2023. His research focuses on Multimodal LLM and conversational AI systems. He served the publication chair at EMNLP 2023 and was an Editorial Member for APSIPA Transactions. He has published more than 40+ academic papers in top journals and conferences including ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, ACM KDD, TNNLS and TASLP, and won multiple best-paper awards.