Gengyu Wang (王庚聿)
Genies | LLM | AI | San Francisco 🇺🇸 | New York 🇺🇸 | Seoul 🇰🇷
I am Engineering Manager, Senior Research Engineer of the LLM Team at Genies, we build the AI behind Genies AI Avatar. The LLM team at Genies develops LLM/ML models and scalable backend systems to support text chat, vision understanding, speech generation (TTS), multi-agent system and 3D animation generation.
Contact: gengyu.wang at columbia.edu
Experience
Genies, San Francisco, CA, USA
(2024 ~)
Engineering Manager, Senior Research Engineer
Founded the LLM Team at Genies, building the AI behind Genies AI Avatar.
IBM Watson, New York, NY, USA
(2021 ~ 2024)
NLP Research Engineer at Watson Assistant
JD AI Research, JD.COM, Mountain View, California, USA
(2020)
NLP Research Intern, Mentor by Senior Director Dr. Jing Huang
Education
M.S. in Computer Science, Columbia University, New York City, USA (2019 ~ 2021)
Thesis: Fact-Checking Misinformation in Climate Change and COVID-19
Advised and funded by Prof. Kathleen McKeown
B.S. in Computer Science, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea (2014 ~ 2018)
Advised by Prof. Seung-won Hwang
Publications
Check-COVID: Fact-Checking COVID-19 News Claims with Scientific Evidence
Gengyu Wang, Kate Harwood, Lawrence Chillrud, Amith Ananthram, Melanie Subbiah, Kathleen McKeown
ACL Findings – 2023 Annual Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Toronto, Canada 2023
IdealGPT: Iteratively Decomposing Vision and Language Reasoning via Large Language Models
Haoxuan You, Rui Sun, Zhecan Wang, Long Chen, Gengyu Wang, Hammad A Ayyubi, Kai-Wei Chang, Shih-Fu Chang
EMNLP Findings – The 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. Singapore 2023
Benchmarking Language-agnostic Intent Classification for Virtual Assistant Platforms
Gengyu Wang*, Cheng Qian*, Lin Pan, Haode Qi, Ladislav Kunc, Saloni Potdar (*equal contribution)
NAACL – MIA Workshop on 2022 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Seatle, WA 2022
Distinguish Sense from Nonsense: Out-of-Scope Detection for Virtual Assistants
Cheng Qian, Haode Qi, Gengyu Wang, Ladislav Kunc, Saloni Potdar
EMNLP – Industry Track on The 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Abu Dhabi, UAE 2022
Semantic Categorization of Social Knowledge for Commonsense Question Answering
Gengyu Wang, Xiaochen Hou, Diyi Yang, Kathleen McKeown, Jing Huang
EMNLP – SubstaiNLP2021 Workshop on The 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2021
Evidence based Automatic Fact-Checking for Climate Change Misinformation
Gengyu Wang, Lawrence Chillrud, Kathleen McKeown
ICWSM – SocialSens Workshop on The International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 2021
Soft Representation Learning for Sparse Transfer Learning
Haeju Park, Jinyoung Yeo, Gengyu Wang, Seung-won Hwang
ACL – Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Florence, Italy, 2019
Machine-Translated Knowledge Transfer for Commonsense Causal Reasoning
Jinyoung Yeo, Gengyu Wang, Hyunsouk Cho, Seungtaek Choi, Seung-won Hwang
AAAI – AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, New Orleans, USA, 2018
Visual Choice of Plausible Alternatives: An Evaluation of Image-based Commonsense Causal Reasoning
Jinyoung Yeo, { Gengyu Wang, Gyungbok Lee}*, Seungtaek Choi, Hyunsouk Cho, Reinald Kim Amplayo, Seung-won Hwang
(* authors in alphabetical order with equal contribution)
LREC – Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, Miyazaki, Japan, 2018
Dataset
Patents
Caching policy to cache key-value vectors
US US20250291722A1 Gengyu Wang, IBM, 2024
Intent suggestion recommendation for artificial intelligence systems
US US20250005432A1 Gengyu Wang, IBM, 2023
Services
Reviewer for AAAI2025, ACL ARR 2024 Jun, ICML2024, ICLR2024, NeurIPS2023, EMNLP2023, NLPCC2023, LREC2020
Interests
Entrepreneurship
Art, Design, Outdoor Activities
Language
Native Chinese, Fluent English and Korean