Mengting Wan

Principal Researcher, Microsoft

Joined

July 2019

Names

Mengting Wan

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Career & Education History

Principal Researcher

Microsoft (microsoft.com)

2020 – Present

PhD student

University of California, San Diego (ucsd.edu)

2015 – 2019

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Julian McAuley

2015 – 2019

Expertise

large language models

2023 – Present

text mining

2015 – Present

computational social sciences

2015 – Present

recommender system

2015 – Present

graph machine learning

2015 – Present

Publications

DP-RFT: Learning to Generate Synthetic Text via Differentially Private Reinforcement Fine-tuning
Fangyuan Xu, Sihao Chen, Zinan Lin, Taiwei Shi, Sydney Graham, Pei Zhou, Mengting Wan, Alexander Stein, Virginia Estellers, Charles Chen, Tadas Baltrusaitis, Richard Speyer, Jennifer Neville, Eunsol Choi, Longqi Yang
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
Self-Correction via Task Distillation
Hossein A. Rahmani, Mengting Wan, Pei Zhou, Longqi Yang, Nick Craswell, Emine Yilmaz, Sujay Kumar Jauhar
- ICLR 2026 Conference Withdrawn Submission
- Readers: Everyone
WildFeedback: Aligning LLMs With In-situ User Interactions And Feedback
Taiwei Shi, Zhuoer Wang, Longqi Yang, Ying-Chun Lin, Zexue He, Mengting Wan, Pei Zhou, Sujay Kumar Jauhar, Sihao Chen, Shan Xia, Hongfei Zhang, Jieyu Zhao, Xiaofeng Xu, Xia Song, Jennifer Neville
- ICLR 2026 Conference Withdrawn Submission
- Readers: Everyone
Interactive Speculative Planning: Enhance Agent Efficiency through Co-design of System and User Interface
Wenyue Hua, Mengting Wan, JAGANNATH SHASHANK SUBRAMANYA SAI VADREVU, Ryan Nadel, Yongfeng Zhang, Chi Wang
- ICLR 2025 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
WildFeedback: Aligning LLMs With In-situ User Interactions And Feedback
Taiwei Shi, Zhuoer Wang, Longqi Yang, Ying-Chun Lin, Zexue He, Mengting Wan, Pei Zhou, Sujay Kumar Jauhar, Xiaofeng Xu, Xia Song, Jennifer Neville
- NeurIPS 2024 Workshop on Behavioral ML
- Readers: Everyone
BasConv: Aggregating Heterogeneous Interactions for Basket Recommendation with Graph Convolutional Neural Network
Zhiwei Liu, Mengting Wan, Stephen Guo, Kannan Achan, Philip S. Yu
- 2020 (modified: 15 Jan 2026)
- SDM 2020
- Readers: Everyone
CosRec: 2D Convolutional Neural Networks for Sequential Recommendation
An Yan, Shuo Cheng, Wang-Cheng Kang, Mengting Wan, Julian J. McAuley
- 2019 (modified: 21 Feb 2025)
- CIKM 2019
- Readers: Everyone
Fine-Grained Spoiler Detection from Large-Scale Review Corpora
Mengting Wan, Rishabh Misra, Ndapa Nakashole, Julian J. McAuley
- 2019 (modified: 08 Nov 2022)
- CoRR 2019
- Readers: Everyone
Addressing Marketing Bias in Product Recommendations
Mengting Wan, Jianmo Ni, Rishabh Misra, Julian J. McAuley
- 2019 (modified: 08 Nov 2022)
- CoRR 2019
- Readers: Everyone
Representing and Recommending Shopping Baskets with Complementarity, Compatibility and Loyalty
Mengting Wan, Di Wang, Jie Liu, Paul Bennett, Julian J. McAuley
- 2018 (modified: 02 Feb 2026)
- CIKM 2018
- Readers: Everyone

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