Welcome! I am currently pursuing Ph.D. study, focusing on representation learning, algorithm fairness, computational social science, and conversational AI. Before that, I was a COVID-19 research team leader in the BIG DATA & AI Lab at IntelligentRabbit LLC. Besides, I was a machine learning engineer at Tianjin Value Fair Technology Inc in China for NLP-based financial application development for public company annual reports in 2017. I have earned my master’s degree in Data Science in 2018 and a bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering at Aeronautical Engineering direction in 2014. I am also a Data Science volunteer at DataKind Global, having served Goolge AI Impact Challenge in 2019 and data.org Growth and Recovery Challenge for COVID-19 in 2020. In 2016, I achieved a certification from Google Developer StudyJams on Android mobile app in Java.

Now I am actively seeking Research Internship. Please feel free to contact me if you think I match with any position that you provide or want to recommend to me. Email: xinwang35314@gmail.com

My research works have been published in International Journal of Society Systems Science, International Journal of Data Science (Elsevier index), International Journal of Operations Research and Information Systems, International Journal of Decision Science, International Journal of Data Analysis and Information Systems and IGI Global. I had done research on fake news and misinformation detection, anti-Asian hater profile and geographical analysis, anti-Asian hate indicator establishment, smart ship, the relationship between Bitcoin and stock market, AI music generation, image diagnosis on skin cancer, region-based bird call recognition, face mask detection, and etc.

I have taught courses in Mobile App Development and Python Programming in AI at BIG DATA & AI Lab at IntelligentRabbit LLC. As an Instructor at GEC academy, I have taught Academic Writing course for AI HUB and Intro to Java course for general class in undergraduate and graduate levels.

News

• Oct 2024, served as Reviewer for JAMIA Open.
• Oct 2024, served as Reviewer for the ACM CHI conference 2025.
• Jun 2024, our team (2-member team including myself) won the 2nd place🥈($500 prize award) in Generative AI Hackathon held by Trustworthy AI Lab at University of California, Los Angeles.
• Jun 2024, served as Reviwer for CSCW conference 2024.
• May 2024, my first-authored research on AI chatbot for patient feedback improvement was selected and featured on ACM Research Showcase. Thank you so much for the affirmation. 🎉 [link]
• May 2024, extended version of user trust modeling work was accepted by CUI conference 2024 as a poster paper.
• May 2024, user trust modeling work was accepted by CUI workshop@CHI’24 [link].
• May 2024, awarded Jim Geer Summer Scholarship ($2,400). 🎉 This is a big funding support for my summer research project on trust&bias-based conversational agent.
• Apr 2024, served as Reviewer for the ACM CUI conference 2024.
• Apr 2024, awarded Watson Professional Development Fund for conference attendance ($500).
• Mar 2024, got acceptance offer for Oxford Machine Learning Summer School. Main topic: Generative AI & Representation Learning. [link]
• Feb 2024, our research (accepted by CHI’24) on patient experience AI chatbot was featured by BingUNews. [link]
• Dec 2023, my first-author case study paper was accepted by the ACM CHI conference 2024. (Acceptance rate: 24%) [link]
• Oct 2023, served as Reviewer for the ACM CHI conference 2024.
• Jun 2023 - Aug 2023, did Summer Research Intern at Research Foundation at SUNY.
• Jun 2023, my short paper was accepted by Health Resilience Workshop under the ACM SIGCHI on Designing Interactive Systems 2023 Conference. [PDF]
• Feb 2023, my poster proposal was accepted by Human-computer Interaction (HCI) International 2023.
• Feb 2023, attended Art-of-the-Possible Webinar: The Power of Data Science for Social Impact, organized by DataKind Global.
• Jun 2022, attended Data+AI Summit 2022, organized by Databricks.
• Nov 2021, attended Samsung AI Forum, organized by Samsung.
• Sep 2021, attended Virtual DataDive Event 2021, organized by DataKind Global.
• Jul 2021, my co-authored paper on anti-Asian hate on Twitter was selected as finding news by Indersceicne Research. [link]
• Jun 2021, multiple technology media reported my fake news research, including Techxplore, TechiLive.in, News AZI, News8Plus etc.
• Jun 2021, my first-author paper on COVID-19 fake news and misinformation was selected as finding news by Inderscience Research. [link]
• Oct 2020, attended 2020 IDEAS Global AI Conference, organized by International Data Engineering and Science Association.
• Jul 2020, attended ALife 2020, organized by Internaltional Society for Artificial Life.
• Jun 2020, awarded ALife Student Scholarship by ALife 2020 organizing committee.
• Jul 2014, awarded Third Prize of 2014 Cross-Strait Contest of Outstanding Bachelor’s Degree Thesis (10/15, among China Mainland, Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan) by Chinese Institute of Industrial Engineering.