Victor Wang

I'm a PhD student at UT Austin, advised by Elias Stengel-Eskin and supported by an NSF GRFP fellowship. I did my undergrad at UT Austin, where I studied computer science and math in the Turing Scholars honors program and worked with Eunsol Choi and Elias Stengel-Eskin.

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Photo taken by my amazing girlfriend Michelle Ding in Hokkaido, Japan!

Research

My research is in natural language processing, with a focus on confidence calibration and developing trustworthy, robust models.

Evaluating Persistent Calibration under Evolving Model Knowledge
Victor Wang, Thomas Hofweber, Mohit Bansal, Elias Stengel-Eskin
arXiv 2026

Calibrating Verbalized Confidence with Self-Generated Distractors
Victor Wang, Elias Stengel-Eskin
ICLR 2026 [poster]

Improving LLM-as-a-Judge Inference with the Judgment Distribution
Victor Wang, Michael J.Q. Zhang, Eunsol Choi
EMNLP 2025 Findings [poster]

Designing LLM-Based Support for Homelessness Caseworkers
Whitney Nelson, Victor Wang, Eunsol Choi, Min Kyung Lee
AAAI PubLLM 2024

Syllable-PBWT for space-efficient haplotype long-match query
Victor Wang, Ardalan Naseri, Shaojie Zhang, Degui Zhi
Bioinformatics 2023

P-smoother: efficient PBWT smoothing of large haplotype panels
William Yue, Ardalan Naseri, Victor Wang, Pramesh Shakya, Shaojie Zhang, Degui Zhi
Bioinformatics Advances 2022

MorphSet: Improving Renal Histopathology Case Assessment Through Learned Prognostic Vectors
Pietro Antonio Cicalese, Syed Asad Rizvi, Victor Wang, Sai Patibandla, Pengyu Yuan, Samira Zare, Katharina Moos, Ibrahim Batal, Marian Clahsen-van Groningen, Candice Roufosse, Jan Becker, Chandra Mohan, Hien Van Nguyen
MICCAI 2021

Polaratio: A magnitude-contingent monotonic correlation metric and its improvements to scRNA-seq clustering
Victor Wang, Pietro Antonio Cicalese, Anto Sam Crosslee Louis Sam Titus, Chandra Mohan
bioRxiv 2020

Industry

Schlumberger
Menlo Park, CA, Summer 2022

Created an application to allow a robot to locate a sound source and approach it

Worked with sensors such as a lidar, microphone array, and event-based camera

Personal

I enjoy learning languages. I have studied Spanish and Japanese and am now learning Mandarin. In December 2023, I passed the JLPT N1 with a score of 172/180. Check out my post on recommendations from my journey! I extended my undergraduate studies to study abroad at Kyoto University in Spring 2025.

Last updated: 10/23/2026