Xuan Wang

Xuan Wang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Virginia Tech, affiliated with the Sanghani Center for Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics. She holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), with additional M.S. degrees in Statistics and Biochemistry from UIUC, and a B.S. in Biological Science from Tsinghua University. Her research focuses on Natural Language Processing (NLP), Data Mining, AI for Sciences, and AI for Healthcare, emphasizing applications in complex reasoning with LLMs, multi-modal science foundation models, and healthcare informatics.

Her work has been recognized through awards including the Nvidia Academic Grant (2025), Cisco Research Award (2025), and NSF NAIRR Pilot Award (2024-2025). She has organized workshops at ACL, VL/HCC, and ICDM, and serves on program committees for top conferences like NeurIPS, EMNLP, and KDD.

Xuan's research spans scientific text mining (e.g., knowledge extraction from biomedical literature), multi-agent LLM systems for clinical triage, and foundational models for multi-omics data analysis. Her lab actively collaborates with institutions like Children’s National Hospital and the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute, with funding from NSF, CCI, and industry partners.

• Education:
  • Ph.D. in Computer Science, UIUC (2022)
  • M.S. in Statistics, UIUC (2017)
  • M.S. in Biochemistry, UIUC (2015)
  • B.S. in Biological Science, Tsinghua University (2013)
• Grants & Awards:
  • NVIDIA Academic Grant (2025) – Small LLM Agent Systems
  • Cisco Research Award (2025) – Complex Reasoning with LLMs
  • NSF NAIRR Pilot (2024-2025) – Multi-omics Analysis
• Lab & Teams: Wang Lab focuses on AI-driven biomedical research, including single-cell omics analysis, brain signal interpretation, and LLM-based scientific discovery. Collaborations include the Virginia Tech Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship program and industry initiatives like the Amazon + VT Center for Efficient ML.