Xin (Eric) Wang is an Assistant Professor and Head of Research at Simular who specializes in multimodal and embodied AI, blending NLP, computer vision, and machine learning across both academic and industry settings. With nine years of experience and a Ph.D. from UC Santa Barbara, he has held research roles at Google, Meta FAIR, Microsoft Research, and Adobe, and transitioned from faculty at UC Santa Cruz to leadership at UCSB’s Center for Responsible Machine Learning. His work is recognized by best paper awards at CVPR and ICLRW and by multiple industry research grants, reflecting a strong track record of impactful, cross-disciplinary publications. Eric regularly serves as senior area chair for flagship venues like ACL, EMNLP, ICLR, and NeurIPS, and he actively bridges research and product through advising startups and leading industry research at Simular. An interesting throughline in his career is the steady movement between top-tier research labs and applied roles, signaling a talent for turning foundational research into deployable multimodal agents.
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