About
William Yang Wang is the Founder and CEO of ChipAgents, an agentic AI platform that generates RTL, verification assets, and automated root-cause analysis for semiconductor development; the company has raised $134M in funding and been deployed at 120 semiconductor companies. He also serves as the Duncan and Suzanne Mellichamp Endowed Chair Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he directs the Natural Language Processing group and the Center for Responsible Machine Learning, and holds a PhD from Carnegie Mellon University. Wang has published more than 200 papers in NLP, AI, and ML venues, and his recognitions include a DARPA Young Faculty Award, an NSF CAREER Award, the IEEE AI's 10 to Watch Award, and the British Computer Society Karen Spärck Jones Award.
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Experience
- ChipAgentsFounder and CEOcurrent2024 — presentSanta Barbara, CA
- UC Santa BarbaraDuncan and Suzanne Mellichamp Chair Professor in AI and Designscurrent2016 — presentSanta Barbara, California Area
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)Amazon Visiting Academics2022 — 2024
- Carnegie Mellon UniversityPhD research fellow2011 — 2016Greater Pittsburgh Area
- YahooIntern Scientist2015New York
- Microsoft ResearchResearch Intern2012 — 2013
- Microsoft Research RedmondResearch Intern2012Redmond, WA
- Columbia UniversityResearch Assistant2010 — 2011
- University of Southern CaliforniaVisiting Research Assistant2010
- Columbia Business SchoolComputer Consultant2009 — 2010
Skills & more
Machine Learning22Natural Language Processing9Computational Linguistics5Artificial Intelligence11Computer Science14Data Mining4Text Mining3Information Retrieval6Algorithms9Lisp1Signal Processing4Matlab2
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JavaPerlSpoken Language ProcessingSpoken Dialogue ProcessingFrom William's professional profile.
Frequently asked questions
- Who is William Yang Wang?
- William Yang Wang is the Founder and CEO of ChipAgents, an agentic AI platform that generates RTL, verification assets, and automated root-cause analysis for semiconductor development; the company has raised $134M in funding and been deployed at 120 semiconductor companies. He also serves as the Duncan and Suzanne Mellichamp Endowed Chair Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he directs the Natural Language Processing group and the Center for Responsible Machine Learning, and holds a PhD from Carnegie Mellon University. Wang has published more than 200 papers in NLP, AI, and ML venues, and his recognitions include a DARPA Young Faculty Award, an NSF CAREER Award, the IEEE AI's 10 to Watch Award, and the British Computer Society Karen Spärck Jones Award.
- Where does William Yang Wang work?
- William Yang Wang is Founder of Chipagents.
- What companies did William Yang Wang found?
- William Yang Wang founded Chipagents.
- Where did William Yang Wang go to school?
- William Yang Wang studied at Carnegie Mellon University (PhD, Computer Science); Columbia Engineering (MS, Computer Science).
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Shared employers
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