Xuan Wang, PhD
Dr. Xuan Wang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science Department at Virginia Tech. Her research interests are in natural language processing, data mining, AI for sciences, and AI for healthcare. Her current research directions include natural language understanding with limited supervision, complex reasoning and planning with large language models, and scientific discoveries with multi-modal science foundation models. She was a recipient of the Cisco Research Award 2025, NSF NAIRR Pilot Award 2024-2025, and NAACL Best Demo Paper Award 2021. She received a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science, an M.S. degree in Statistics, and an M.S. degree in Biochemistry from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2022, 2017, and 2015, respectively, and a B.S. degree in Biological Science from Tsinghua University in 2013.