Chao Wang
Applied Research Scientist
Model Readiness
Chao Wang is an Applied Research Scientist at ServiceNow AI Research. He earned his PhD in 2021 from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at York University. Prior to joining ServiceNow, he worked across industry as a Research Scientist at Quantiphi and LG Electronics and as an Applied Scientist at Amazon, gaining hands-on experience in natural language processing, computer vision, and multimodal learning. Before transitioning into AI, he was a software architect for million-user information systems.
Interests
- Machine Learning
- Reinforcement Learning
- Natural Language Processing
- Computer Vision
- Large Language Models
- Multimodal Models
- AI Agents
- Software Engineering
Publications
StarFlow: Generating Structured Workflow Outputs From Sketch Images.
European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL),
2026.
AlignVLM: Bridging Vision and Language Latent Spaces for Multimodal Document Understanding.
Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS),
2025.
AlignVLM: Bridging Vision and Language Latent Spaces for Multimodal Understanding.
Workshop at the International Conference of Learning Representation (ICLR),
2025.