Zhaowei Wang
E-mail: zwanggy # cse dot ust dot hk

Hi, I’m Zhaowei (James) Wang (Chinese: 王昭为). I’m currently a visiting scholar at EdinburghNLP, working with Mark Steedman. I’m pursuing my PhD in the Department of CSE at HKUST, supervised by Yangqiu Song. I received my MPhil degree from the Department of CSE at HKUST in August 2023.
My current research interests mainly focus on the long-context ability of MLLMs, as well as on the long-term memory of MLLMs, which is a highly relevant application of long-context understanding. Prior to the advent of LLMs, I worked on event understanding, such as discourse relation and event abstraction.
I am always open to new collaborations. Please feel free to reach out via email.
Research Highlights by Topic
Multimodal Long Context
Abstraction Knowledge
News
Jun 9, 2025 | The workshop version of our MMLongBench has been accepted by the LCFM Workshop at ICML 2025. |
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May 20, 2025 | Our new paper about Multimodal Long Context is now available: MMLongBench: Benchmarking Long-Context Vision-Language Models Effectively and Thoroughly. |
May 16, 2025 | Our new paper about LLM memory is now available: Rethinking Memory in AI: Taxonomy, Operations, Topics, and Future Directions. |
May 15, 2025 | Two papers on entailment and factual knowledge have been accepted by ACL2025. |
Dec 1, 2024 | One paper on entailment has been accepted by NAACL2025. |
Jun 1, 2024 | Two paper about abstraction and conceptualization are accepted by ACL2024. |
Mar 13, 2024 | A paper about implementing K-Line Theory for abstraction is accepted to NAACL 2024. |
Mar 13, 2024 | A paper about temporal relation bias is accepted to NAACL 2024. |
Selected Awards
HKUST RedBird Academic Excellence Award for Continuing PhD Students 2025
HKUST Overseas Research Award 2025
HKUST RedBird PhD Award 2023-2024
Hong Kong PhD Fellowship 2023
National Scholarship 2018-2019
National Scholarship 2017-2018
Merit Student in Heilongjiang Province 2017-2018
National Scholarship 2016-2017
Service
Area Chair: ACL ARR 2024 (all rounds); ACL ARR 2025 Feb, May, July
Conference Reviewer: NeurIPS 2024, 2025; ICLR 2025; ICML 2025; ICCV 2025; ACL 2023, 2024; EMNLP 2022, 2023; NAACL 2024; KDD 2023; SIGIR 2025; CIKM 2023; AAAI 2024; ACL ARR 2023 (all rounds); ACL ARR 2024 Feb, Apr; ACL ARR 2025 May; COLM 2024, 2025; EACL 2023, 2024; COLING 2022, 2025; LREC-COLING 2024; SDM 2023; AACL 2022, 2023; AKBC 2022; WiNLP@EMNLP 2024
External Journal Reviewer: JAIR 2023 Apr