Yongjie Wang王永杰

Ph.D.

Joint NTU-WeBank Research Centre
Nanyang Technological University

Office: N4-B3b-06, 50 Nanyang Ave, Singapore, 639798
Email: yongjie.wangATntu.edu.sg, yongjie002ATe.ntu.edu.sg



Biography

I am now a research staff at the Joint NTU-WeBank Research Centre at Nanyang Technological University, under the supervision of Dr. Shen Zhiqi. I received my Ph.D. in July 2023 at the College of Computing and Data Science (CCDS, NTU), under the supervision of Professor Miao Chunyan and Professor Wang Ke. Before that, I received a Bachelor's degree from the College of Software, Jilin University, and a Master's degree from the Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, advised by Professor Zhang Yongdong and Associate Professor Gao Ke.

My research interests are centered on (1) developing trustworthy AI by integrating various explanation techniques to enhance model trustworthiness and robustness; (2) applying modern models (e.g., LLMs) to high-stakes applications.

  • Exploring the philosophy of explainable AI from multiple disciplines, e.g., causality, psychology, and social science.
  • Investigating effective retrieval augmented generation to mitigate the LLM hallucination.
  • Leveraging counterfactual explanations into learning paradigm.
  • Studying and probing modern Large Language Models (LLMs), such as how in-context learning can enhance their capabilities.
  • Concept-level explanation, i.e., understanding the high-level representation coined in LLMs.

  • I am open and welcome to collaborate with researchers with similar interests in XAI/LLM. Feel free to drop me an email.


    Publications (*: equal contribution)


    Experience

    • Webank-NTU Singapore Joint Research Institute, Nanyang Technological University
      Oct. 2023 - Present
    • Research Fellow
      Topic: LLM Interpretability, Counterfactual Explanations, In-context Learning, Retrieval Augmented Generation.
    • Alibaba-NTU Singapore Joint Research Institute, Nanyang Technological University
      Aug. 2019 - Oct. 2023
    • Research Associate
      Topic: Counterfactual explanation, Feature attribution, Model Security.
    • Advanced Computer Research Center, Institute of Computing Technology, CAS
      Jan. 2016 - Jul. 2018
    • Research Assistant
      Topic: Image processing, and retrieval on large-scale systems.

    Professional Activities

    Conference Reviews: EMNLP (2024), WWW (2025)

    Journal Reviews: TNNLS (2024)

    Hobbies

    Basketball (shooting guard), Badminton (中羽3级), Table Tennis, Tennis, Skiing, Running


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