Zhu (Ellen) Wang

Hi, I’m Zhu (Ellen) Wang. I am a Postdoctoral Scholar at Northwestern University, working with Prof. Brian Uzzi. I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Chicago. During my doctoral studies, I was affiliated with the ADVIS Lab and was advised by Prof. Isabel Cruz (In Memoriam). I later worked with Prof. Saythi Ravi on multimodal vision–language models.

My research lies at the intersection of deep learning and network science. I study multimodal AI systems that integrate vision, language, and structured knowledge to support robust reasoning across domains. My work spans vision–language modeling, open-vocabulary learning, and large-scale analysis of scientific and technological systems.

More broadly, I focus on AI for scientific discovery — developing systems that model and reason over complex knowledge structures in science.