Biography

Hi, my name is Zhu(Ellen) Wang. I am currently a Postdoctoral Scholar at Northwestern University. I earned my Ph.D in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago. I used to work at ADVIS Lab, advised by Prof. Isabel Cruz(In Memoriam). Currently, I am advised by Prof. Saythi Ravi, and work on multimodal analysis of vision and language models.

My research interests are primarily in Deep Learning models and Graph Mining. Particularly, I am working on their interdisciplinary field therein to solve multimodal problems, especially on vision and language related tasks, such as VQA, visual reasoning and open-vocabulary object detection. My future research directions mainly focus on applying AI technologies for science, such as biology, pyschology and social science.

Updates

• [08/2025] One paper is accepted by EMNLP 2025!🆕
• [05/2025] Two paper are accepted by ACL 2025!
• [03/2025] One paper is accepted by AISTAT 2025!
• [03/2025] I defended my Ph.D thesis on Semantic-Driven Multimodal Learning!
• [10/2024] New paper is accepted by NeurIPS24!
• [11/2023] I have given a few talks on “Multimodal Representation Learning and applications” at CS418@UIC, IM Lab@Uchicago, NICO@Northwestern, and Zhen’s Radiation Oncology lab@Uchicago!
• [10/2023] Participate OAEI2023
• [09/2023] New paper is accepted by NeurIPS23!
• [08/2023] New paper is accepted by OM2023 long paper!