Zhen Wang

Honors and Awards

Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Fellowship, 2025
OpenAI Research Grant Award (11 teams worldwide), 2024
Top Reviewer Award, NeurIPS, 2023
NeurIPS Oral (Top 2%), 2023
Best Paper Award, SoCal NLP, 2023
Third-Place Honor, Inaugural Alexa Prize TaskBot Challenge, 2022
Graduate Research Award (Mike Liu Scholarship), CSE, OSU, 2022
Graduate Student Research Poster Award (Top 5), CSE, OSU, 2021
SIGIR Student Travel Grant, 2021
Rising Stars in Data Science, Center for Data and Computing (CDAC), University of Chicago, 2021
SIGKDD Student Travel Award, 2019
Excellent Bachelor Degree Thesis Award in Shandong Province, China, 2016
Excellent Graduate Thesis Award of UPC, China, 2015
China Scholarship Council (CSC) Scholarship, Ministry of Education, China, 2015
Visiting Student Program at Polytech Nice Sophia, Nice, France
National Scholarship (Top 0.2%), Ministry of Education, China, 2014
Soong Ching Ling Foundation (SCLF) Scholarship, China, 2013
National Scholarship for Encouragement, China, 2012

Organization:

Organizer (primary contact), LAW 2025: Bridging Language, Agent, and World Models for Reasoning and Planning @ NeurIPS 2025
Organizer (primary contact), Biologia Ex Machina 2026: Toward Trusted AI Collaborators for Biological Discovery (submitted workshop proposal)
Co-organizer, AI/LLM Agents for Social Simulation: Challenges and Opportunities (submitted workshop proposal)

Area Chair/Senior PC Member:

Program Committee Member:

ICML (2023, 2024, 2025)
NeurIPS (2023, 2024, 2025)
ICLR (2024, 2025, 2026)
ACL ARR (Oct'21, Nov'21, Jan'22, Apr'22, Sep'22, Oct'22, Dec'22, Feb'23, Oct'23, Dec'23, Feb'24, Apr'24, June'24, Aug'24, May'25, July'25)
EMNLP (2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025)
NAACL (2021, 2022, 2024, SUKI 2022 Workshop)
ACL (2018, 2021, 2023, 2024)
COLM (2024, 2025)
KDD (2019, 2020, 2023, 2024)
AAAI (2023, 2024)
NLPCC (2020, 2021, 2022, 2024)
Neural Networks
Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

External Reviewer: