Lucy Wang

Lucy Lu Wang is an Assistant Professor at the University of Washington Information School and holds adjunct appointments in Biomedical Informatics & Medical Education, Human Centered Design & Engineering, and Computer Science & Engineering. She leads the LARCH lab focused on language accessibility research.

Research Interests:

• Designing language technologies for information accessibility
• Reducing barriers in scientific/healthcare domains
• Human-AI collaboration for research translation

Recent Article Trends: Focus on accessibility evaluation frameworks, generative AI customization, LLM abstention behavior, multimodal generation benchmarks, and clinical AI applications across journals like ASSETS, DIS, and TACL.

Scientific Awards:

• Best Artifact Award, ASSETS 2021
• Best Paper: Honorable Mention, CHI 2021

Advising & Grants includes Microsoft's Accelerating Foundation Models Research Award and Google's Gemma Academic Program Award. She contributes to open-access tools like FigurA11y and PaperPlain.