Ying Wang

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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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News

Feb 2026	Excited that our latest paper, Temporal Straightening for Latent Planning, was selected for an oral presentation at the World Modeling Workshop.
Dec 2025	Honored to be recognized as an Outstanding Reviewer for NeurIPS 2025.
Sep 2024	I started my PhD at NYU 💜💜💜
Jun 2024	Our team has won the third place in the Ego4D EgoSchema challenge.
Jun 2024	Started my summer internship as a research scientist at Meta (Video recommendation), Bellevue.

Selected Publications

2026

Temporal Straightening for Latent Planning

Ying Wang, Oumayma Bounou, Gaoyue Zhou, Randall Balestriero, Tim G. J. Rudner, Yann LeCun, and Mengye Ren

Preprint, 2026

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2025

In-Context Clustering with Large Language Models

Ying Wang, Mengye Ren, and Andrew Gordon Wilson

Preprint, 2025

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2023

LifelongMemory: Leveraging LLMs for Answering Queries in Long-form Egocentric Videos

Ying Wang, Yanlai Yang, and Mengye Ren

3rd Place Award in Ego4d NLQ Challenge at CVPR 2023 & 3rd Place Award in Ego4d EgoSchema Challenge at CVPR 2024, 2023

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Visual Explanations of Image-Text Representations via Multi-Modal Information Bottleneck Attribution

Ying Wang, Tim G. J. Rudner, and Andrew Gordon Wilson

In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2023

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Adapting Grounded Visual Question Answering Models to Low Resource Languages

Ying Wang, Jonas Pfeiffer, Nicolas Carion, Yann LeCun, and Aishwarya Kamath

In CVPR Multimodal Learning and Applications Workshop [Oral], Jun 2023

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