Zichao Wang

Research Scientist, Adobe Research

Joined

September 2018

Names

Zichao Wang (Preferred)

Emails

****@rice.edu (Confirmed)

****@gmail.com (Confirmed)

****@adobe.com (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Research Scientist

Adobe Research (adobe.com)

2023 – Present

PhD student

Rice University (rice.edu)

2016 – 2023

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Richard Baraniuk

Present

Coauthor

Andrew Lan

Present

Expertise

natural language generation

2017 – Present

AI/ML/NLP for education

2016 – Present

Publications

Varfa: A variational factor analysis framework for efficient bayesian learning analytics
Zichao Wang, YI GU, Andrew Lan, Richard Baraniuk
- Proceedings of The 13th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2020)
- Readers: Everyone
Reasoning-Based Personalized Generation for Users with Sparse Data
Bo Ni, Branislav Kveton, Samyadeep Basu, Subhojyoti Mukherjee, Leyao Wang, Franck Dernoncourt, Sungchul Kim, Seunghyun Yoon, Zichao Wang, Ruiyi Zhang, Puneet Mathur, Jihyung Kil, Jiuxiang Gu, Nedim Lipka, Yu Wang, Ryan A. Rossi, Tyler Derr
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
Spinning Straw into Gold: Relabeling LLM Agent Trajectories in Hindsight for Successful Demonstrations
Zichao Li, Gang Wu, Zichao Wang, Ruiyi Zhang, Wanrong Zhu, Ryan A. Rossi, Vlad I Morariu, Jihyung Kil
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
A Personalized Conversational Benchmark: Towards Simulating Personalized Conversations
Li Li, Peilin Cai, Ryan A. Rossi, Franck Dernoncourt, Branislav Kveton, Junda Wu, Tong Yu, Linxin Song, Tiankai Yang, Yuehan Qin, Nesreen K. Ahmed, Samyadeep Basu, Subhojyoti Mukherjee, Ruiyi Zhang, Zhengmian Hu, Bo Ni, Yuxiao Zhou, Zichao Wang, Yue Huang, Yu Wang et al. (4 additional authors not shown)
- ICLR 2026 Conference Withdrawn Submission
- Readers: Everyone
RADAR: Reasoning–Ability and Difficulty-Aware Routing for Reasoning LLMs
Nigel Fernandez, Branislav Kveton, Ryan A. Rossi, Andrew Lan, Zichao Wang
- MATH-AI 2025 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
RADAR: Reasoning-Ability and Difficulty-Aware Routing for Reasoning LLMs
Nigel Fernandez, Branislav Kveton, Ryan A. Rossi, Andrew Lan, Zichao Wang
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
A Personalized Conversational Benchmark: Towards Simulating Personalized Conversations
Li Li, Peilin Cai, Ryan A. Rossi, Franck Dernoncourt, Branislav Kveton, Junda Wu, Tong Yu, Linxin Song, Tiankai Yang, Yuehan Qin, Nesreen K. Ahmed, Samyadeep Basu, Subhojyoti Mukherjee, Ruiyi Zhang, Zhengmian Hu, Bo Ni, Yuxiao Zhou, Zichao Wang, Yue Huang, Yu Wang et al. (4 additional authors not shown)
- MTI-LLM @ NeurIPS 2025 Spotlight
- Readers: Everyone
On Mechanistic Circuits for Extractive Question-Answering
Samyadeep Basu, Vlad I Morariu, Ryan A. Rossi, Nanxuan Zhao, Zichao Wang, Soheil Feizi, Varun Manjunatha
- COLM 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Personalization of Large Language Models: A Survey
Zhehao Zhang, Ryan A. Rossi, Branislav Kveton, Yijia Shao, Diyi Yang, Hamed Zamani, Franck Dernoncourt, Joe Barrow, Tong Yu, Sungchul Kim, Ruiyi Zhang, Jiuxiang Gu, Tyler Derr, Hongjie Chen, Junda Wu, Xiang Chen, Zichao Wang, Subrata Mitra, Nedim Lipka, Nesreen K. Ahmed et al. (1 additional authors not shown)
- Accepted by TMLR
- Readers: Everyone
Understanding and Enhancing Context-Augmented Language Models Through Mechanistic Circuits
Samyadeep Basu, Vlad I Morariu, Zichao Wang, Ryan A. Rossi, Nanxuan Zhao, Soheil Feizi, Varun Manjunatha
- Submitted to ICLR 2025
- Readers: Everyone

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