I got my PhD in Computer Science from University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, advised by Prof. Svetlana Lazebnik.

The ultimate goal of my research interest is to build intelligent machines that not only understand and recreate the visual world but also communicate like human beings.

Recently, my main research themes include:

• joint modeling of images and natural language,
• multimodal learning and multimodal interactive system,
• controllable language generation and conversational AI,
• visual scene understanding, visual recognition and generation,
• ​machine learning methods for Computer Vision / NLP,
• ... 

Email :
lwang97@illinois.edu

News: 

• To generate coherent video paragraphs? Take a look at our ACL 2020 long paper-MART.
• I am co-organizing the second Learning from Imperfect Data workshop in CVPR 2020.
• One ICCV 2019 Oral for real time image-text grounding.
• One CVPR 2019 Oral for diverse and controllable language generation.