Xin Wang

Xin (Eric) Wang is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), and serves as Head of Research at Simular AI. His research focuses on Multimodal and Embodied AI Agents, blending methodologies from machine learning, computer vision, natural language processing, and robotics.

Education:

• Ph.D. in Computer Science, UC Santa Barbara
• B.Eng. in Computer Science, Zhejiang University

Research Interests:

• Natural Language Processing
• Computer Vision
• Multimodal AI
• Embodied AI
• Trustworthy AI Systems

His work emphasizes agents that collaborate with humans in complex environments, addressing ethical design and generalizable reasoning.

Awards:

• Best Paper Awards at CVPR 2019 and ICLR 2025
• Google Faculty Research Award, 2022
• eBay & Cisco Faculty Awards (2022–2024)
• Amazon Alexa Prize Awards (multiple years)

Advising & Grants: Supervised students Dr. Xuehai He and Dr. Jing Gu. Secured grants from Microsoft, Adobe, eBay, and Snap. Organized workshops on vision-language research and embodied AI.

Labs/Teams: Leads the ERIC Lab at UCSB, focusing on multimodal agent systems and ethical AI design.