Ying Wang

I am a PhD student in the CILVR Lab at NYU Center for Data Science, working on world models with Prof. Mengye Ren and Prof. Yann LeCun.

Prior to starting my PhD, I earned an MS in Data Science at NYU as well and a BS in Computer Science, Statistics, and Finance at McGill University.

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Portrait of Ying Wang

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May ’26
Summer intern at Ami Labs working on world models ❤️
May ’26
Temporal Straightening for Latent Planning accepted to ICML 2026 — see you in Seoul.
Apr ’26
Lightning talk on Temporal Straightening at the NYC Computer Vision Day.
Feb ’26
Temporal Straightening selected for an oral at the World Modeling Workshop.
Dec ’25
Recognized as an Outstanding Reviewer for NeurIPS 2025.
Sep ’24
I started my PhD at NYU 💜💜💜
Jun ’24
3rd place, Ego4D EgoSchema challenge.
Jun ’24
Summer at Meta (Video recommendation), Bellevue.
Oct ’23
Received Travel Award for NeurIPS 2023! See you in New Orleans ⚜️
Sep ’23
Multi-Modal Information Bottleneck Attribution accepted to NeurIPS 2023.
Jun ’23
3rd place, Ego4D NLQ challenge.

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