Xi Wang
Lecturer Of Natural Language Processing
Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolXi Wang is a Lecturer in Natural Language Processing at the University of Sheffield with nine years of research experience spanning conversational AI, personalization, and retrieval-augmented generation. After completing a PhD at the University of Glasgow, he worked on task-oriented dialogue systems as a postdoctoral research fellow at UCL and had industry exposure during an internship at NAVER LABS Europe. His work bridges NLP and IR, focusing on making conversational systems more context-aware and personalized through retrieval and hybrid architectures. Based in Sheffield, he combines academic rigor with practical system-building, often translating research prototypes toward real-world dialogue applications. An under-the-radar strength is his sustained focus on the intersection of retrieval methods and generation, positioning him to advance scalable, user-centered conversational agents.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Zhengzhou UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at University of Glasgow
Github Skills (27)
recommender-system9
text-generation7
ranking7
science7
graph-neural-network7
react7
computer-science6
data-augmentation5
phonetics5
knowledge-graph5
java5
retrieval5
pytorch4
information-retrieval4
acl4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
wangxieric/LLM-CogBias
Sep 2024 - Jan 2026
Contributions:2 PRs, 154 pushes in 1 year 4 months
wangxieric/beta-recsys
Jul 2020 - Mar 2021
BETA-Recsys: Build, Evaluate and Tune under A same framework for Recommendations
Contributions:20 PRs, 29 pushes in 8 months
nlpevaluaterecsystuneabtesting
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