Jindong Wang
Assistant Professor, William & Mary
jdw [at] wm.edu, jindongwang [at] outlook.com
Integrated Science Center 3383, Williamsburg, VA, USA
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Dr. Jindong Wang is an Assistant Professor at William & Mary Department of Data Science and also an affiliated faculty member of Future of Life Institute. Previously, he was a Senior Researcher in Microsoft Research Asia from 2019 to 2024. His research interest spans machine learning, large foundation models, and generative AI. He is among World’s Top 2% Highly Cited Scientists and Most Influential AI Scholars. He is associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS), guest editor for ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST), area chair for ICML, NeurIPS, ICLR, KDD, ACL, ACMMM, and ACML, and SPC of IJCAI and AAAI. He published over 60 papers at top-tier venues (27000+ citations, H-index 58). His research is supported by William & Mary Faculty Research Award and industrial awards from Amazon, Google, NVIDIA, Microsoft, and AMD. His work was integrated into Microsoft health products that reduced token consumptions by 15%, and quant finance with increased stock price prediction accuracy, and also reported by Forbes, MIT Technology Review, and other international media. He received best paper awards at several conferences and workshops. He published a book Introduction to Transfer Learning and gave tutorials at IJCAI’22, WSDM’23, KDD’23, AAAI’24, AAAI’25, CVPR’25, and CVPR’26.
News
| Jun 20, 2026 | One paper is accepted by ECCV 2026. Congrats! |
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| Jun 08, 2026 | Our paper, FedUMM, received the Best Student Paper Award at WWW’26 FL workshop! |
| Jun 08, 2026 | We received the Gemini Academic Research Award! |
| Apr 22, 2026 | Our UMM tutorial is accepted by IJCAI 2026! |
| Apr 19, 2026 | We got the Google Awards for Machine Learning Research and Education with TPUs! |
| Apr 06, 2026 | One paper is accepted by ACL 2026 main conference. Congrats! |
| Mar 20, 2026 | Our proposal is accepted by Lambda Research Grant program! |
| Feb 21, 2026 | Two papers and one tutorial are accepted by CVPR 2026. Congrats! |
| Feb 11, 2026 | Our AI education paper “Classroom AI: Large Language Models as Grade-Specific Teachers” has been accepted by NPJ Artificial Intelligence (a Nature portfolio journal)! |
| Feb 08, 2026 | I received the AAAI 2026 Outstanding SPC Award (35 among 1700+ SPCs)! |
| Jan 26, 2026 | We have three papers accepted at ICLR 2026! Congrats! |
| Jan 16, 2026 | Invited to be a senior program member (SPC) of IJCAI 2026. |
| Jan 06, 2026 | Invited to be serve on the NSF panel of machine learning and large language models. |
| Dec 17, 2025 | Our collaborated paper “General scales unlock ai evaluation with explanatory and predictive power” is accepted by Nature! Congrats Lexin! 🎉🎉🎉 |
| Dec 15, 2025 | We got the NVIDIA Academic Research Grant (4x RTX Pro 6000 GPUs)! |
| Nov 24, 2025 | We have 1 paper accepted by AAAI 2026 and KDD 2026, respectively. Congrats to authors! |
| Nov 20, 2025 | Invited to be an area chair (AC) of ICML 2026. |
| Oct 22, 2025 | We got the prestigious Amazon Research Award! |
| Oct 17, 2025 | We received an unrestricted gift (award) from Google Deepmind! |
| Oct 16, 2025 | We got the AMD University Program HPC Award! |
| Oct 13, 2025 | Our NeurIPS 2025 workshop on LLM persona has been accepted! |
| Oct 07, 2025 | We got the Google Cloud Research Credit award! |
| Sep 18, 2025 | Three papers got accepted by NeurIPS 2025. Congrats! |
| Sep 16, 2025 | Our group received an academic compute grant from Modal! |
| Sep 03, 2025 | Received the Faculty Travel Grant from William & Mary! |
| Sep 02, 2025 | Our group received the Cohere Labs Catalyst Grant! |
| Aug 16, 2025 | Invited to be an Area Chair for ICLR 2026. |
| May 24, 2025 | Three papers accepted by ACL 2025, including one main, one findings, and one demo paper. Congrats! |
| May 01, 2025 | Four papers are accepted by ICML 2025. Congrats! |
| Apr 20, 2025 | Invited to be a faculty member at the AI Safety Community of Future of Life Institute! |