William Yang Wang

William Yang Wang is an Assistant Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He obtained his Ph.D. in Language and Information Technology from Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science (Language Technologies Institute) in 2016, under the advisement of William W. Cohen. His research focuses on Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, and Information Extraction, with contributions to multi-hop question answering and neuro-symbolic reasoning. Prior to his faculty position, he was affiliated with institutions like Google and CMU. His academic career emphasizes advancing AI techniques for language understanding and knowledge representation.