Zixu Wang (王梓旭)

zixu.wang@imperial.ac.uk

About me

I'm a PhD student at Imperial College London and Research Engineer at conteX.ai.

Research

I study multimodal machine Learning and natural language processing.

Publications
(*: equal contribution)

Distilling Context for Toxicity Detection via Information Bottleneck
Zixu Wang, Marina Fomicheva, Lucia Specia
EMNLP 2022

Contrastive Video-Language Learning with Fine-grained Frame Sampling
Zixu Wang, Yujie Zhong, Yishu Miao, Lin Ma, Lucia Specia
AACL-IJCNLP 2022
[paper]

Guiding Visual Question Generation
Nihir Vedd, Zixu Wang, Marek Rei, Yishu Miao, Lucia Specia
NAACL 2022
[paper]

Scene Text Recognition with Semantics
Joshua Placidi, Yishu Miao, Zixu Wang, Lucia Specia
[paper]

Cross-Modal Generative Augmentation for Visual Question Answering
Zixu Wang, Yishu Miao, Lucia Specia
BMVC 2021
[paper]

Latent Variable Models for Visual Question Answering
Zixu Wang, Yishu Miao, Lucia Specia
CLVL @ ICCV 2021
[paper]

Exploring Supervised and Unsupervised Rewards in Machine Translation
Julia Ive, Zixu Wang, Marina Fomicheva, Lucia Specia
EACL 2021
[paper]

Distinguishing between Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) and Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) using Mental Health Records: a Classification Approach
Zixu Wang, Julia Ive, Sinéad Moylett, Christoph Mueller, Rudolf Cardinal, Sumithra Velupillai, John O'Brien, Robert Stewart
ClinicalNLP @ EMNLP 2020
[paper]

Is Artificial Data Useful for Biomedical Natural Language Processing Algorithms?
Zixu Wang, Julia Ive, Sumithra Velupillai, Lucia Specia
BioNLP @ ACL 2019
[paper]

Experience

2022.01-present: Research Engineer, conteX.ai
2021.06-2022.02: Research Assistant, Multimodal Machine Learning, Imperial College London
2019.10-2020.03: Research Assistant, Biomedical NLP, King's College London
2017.08-2017.12: NLP Engineer, Intern, MOMO Techonology

Education

2020-present: PhD in Multimodal Machine Learning, Imperial College London
2018-2019: MSc in Computing (Machine Learning), Imperial College London
2014-2018: BEng in Software Engineering, Nankai University, China