Biography
Wenxuan Zhang is an incoming tenure-track SUTD Assistant Professor (SAP) at the Information Systems Technology and Design pillar, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD). He received his Ph.D. degree from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and then joined Alibaba Singapore as a research scientist with the prestigious Ali Star award. His primary research areas are natural language processing (NLP) and large language models (LLMs). His research aims to advance NLP models that are inclusive, supporting diverse languages and cultures through multilingual language models; while also trustworthy by improving the understanding, safety, and robustness of the models. He (co-)led multiple influential open-source research projects, including SeaLLMs (Large Language Models specialized for Southeast Asian languages, with 300k+ model downloads), M3Exam, and AutoArena. He has published over 40 papers in top-tier AI conferences and journals, where multiple papers have been recognized as among the top 2% or top 3% most cited at their respective conferences. He also regularly serves as an area chair and on program committees for multiple leading conferences and journals.