Weiqi Wang 王伟琪 Mighty
About me
Hi there! Welcome to my personal homepage. I’m a third-year Ph.D. student in Computer Science and Engineering at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, supervised by Professor Yangqiu Song. Currently, I am a visiting Ph.D. student at Johns Hopkins University, where I am supervised by Prof. Daniel Khashabi. Previously, I was an applied scientist intern at Amazon in Palo Alto, CA, USA, working with Dr. Limeng Cui, Dr. Xin Liu, and Dr. Chen Luo. I received my bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Mathematics from HKUST in 2022, and I am currently funded by the HKPFS award.
This webpage is last updated on 2024/11/17.
Research Interest
I’m mainly interested in the research of Natural Language Processing. In the era of Large Language Models, I’m actively working on:
- Unlocking Trustworthy Creativity and Generalizable System II Reasoning within LLMs via Conceptualization (🐈, 🚗, 🕯️) and Metaphysical Reasoning (🪐)
- Human Behavior Understanding via Complex Intention Modeling with Large Foundation Models in E-Commerce (FolkScope, IntentionQA, MIND) and Social Media (MIKO)
Education
Johns Hopkins University (JHU)
- Visiting PhD Scholar at Center for Language and Speech Processing, Nov. 2024 - Apr. 2025
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
- Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science and Engineering, Sep. 2022 – Jul. 2026 (Expected)
- Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Mathematics, Sep. 2018 – Jun. 2022, First Class Honors
Internship
Amazon Search Experience Science, Amazon Inc., Palo Alto, CA, USA
- Applied Scientist Intern, Jun. 2024 – Sep. 2024
Academic Service
- Area Chair: ACL Rolling Review (2024 - Now), ACL (2024), EMNLP (2024), COLING (2025), NAACL (2025)
- Conference Reviewer: ACL Rolling Review (2022 - 2023), EACL (2024), NAACL (2024), EMNLP (2022, 2023), ACL (2023), KDD (2023, 2024, 2025), NeurIPS (2024), NeurIPS-DB (2024), ICLR (2025)
- Conference Volunteer: IJCAI-2023
Awards
- EMNLP 2024 Outstanding Paper Award (2024)
- HKUST RedBird Academic Excellence Award for Continuing PhD Students (2023 - 2024)
- Hong Kong PhD Fellowship (2022 - 2026)
- HKUST RedBird PhD Scholarship (2022)
- Dean’s List for the School of Engineering (Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Spring 2022)
- University’s Scholarship Scheme for Continuing Undergraduate Students (2019 - 2022)
Contact me!
You can reach me at mightyweaver829 [at] gmail [dot] com.