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William Wang
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CEO & Founder, @AlphaDesignAI. We make ChipAgents.ai I'm also Mellichamp Chair Prof. at UCSB CS. PhD @ CMU SCS.
Santa Barbara, CA
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    William Wang
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    Feb 17
    Today, I’m excited to share a major milestone for ChipAgents. 🚀 We’ve closed a $50M Series A1, bringing our total capital raised to $74M. The round was led by Matter Venture Partners, a TSMC-backed HardTech fund, with continued support from our existing investors, Bessemer
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    ChipAgents.ai
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    Feb 17
    We're thrilled to announce that ChipAgents has raised an oversubscribed $50M Series A1, bringing our total funding to $74M. This round was led by Matter Venture Partners, a TSMC-backed HardTech VC firm, with continued support from Bessemer Venture Partners, Micron, MediaTek,
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    William Wang
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    Jun 4, 2024
    Just another day, waking up to find out that the undergrad hired by your grad student generated a $20,000 OpenAI API bill in the last three days, without your authorization. 😅
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    William Wang
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    Feb 16, 2025
    Many PhD students ask me what to work on given academia’s compute constraints. 🤔🤔🤔 My answer: Focus on questions only fundamental research can solve. Some ideas to share with everyone: → Why and how did LLMs have the reasoning capabilities? (Theory gaps ≠ scaling) 1/n
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    William Wang
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    Oct 14, 2024
    I got out of my PhD in 2016 and had 200 citations. My work has now been cited over 20,000 times! 🙌 Huge thanks to all the researchers who found it helpful in advancing their own ideas. 🚀 No celebration, but plenty of gratitude & virtual high-fives🙏
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    William Wang
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    May 31, 2020
    This is the toughest time for international grad students in the US: they have to deal with months of self-isolation, COVID-19, far away from home, worry that visa / OPT being taken away, find jobs, and now reading all the sad news about protests... faculty: let’s offer support.
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    William Wang
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    Jul 13, 2021
    🎉 🎉 🎉 My first promotion letter just came in after my fifth work anniversary! Looks like faculty are not too tired of me and I will be associating with them from now own. Very grateful to my students, collaborators, mentors, colleagues, #NLProc community letter writers.
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    William Wang
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    Oct 3, 2024
    BREAKING: Taylor Swift's Eras Tour just did what AI couldn’t—pushed NeurIPS by a whole day! 🤖 🤣🤣🤣 #NeurIPS 2024 Conference Date Change The conference start date has been changed to Tuesday December 10 in order to support delegates arriving on Monday. neurips.cc
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    William Wang
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    Feb 18, 2023
    Papers before PhD are terrible metrics of future success and research potentials. Three of my best PhD graduates had ZERO top conference papers when they came in. 🤷
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    Pengpeng Xiao
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    Feb 13, 2023
    My jaws keep dropping as I go through 70 PhD applicant files. People w/ 2 coauthored papers & an interesting solo writing sample don’t even make it to the top 10 in my pile. The level of knowledge, research experience & passion these kids bring to the table is just remarkable! 🤩
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    William Wang
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    Jul 17, 2020
    A collection of 300+ survey papers on Natural Language Processing (#NLProc) and Machine Learning (ML) by topics:
    GitHub - NiuTrans/ABigSurvey: A collection of 1000+ survey papers on Natural Language Processing...
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    William Wang
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    Feb 4, 2024
    🤩Apple opensources MGIE! Now one can take random pictures w. iPhone & edit w. language! Guiding Instruction-based Image Editing via Multimodal Large Language Models #ICLR2024 spotlight: openreview.net/forum?id=S1RKW… Apple repo github.com/apple/ml-mgie Gradio github.com/tsujuifu/pytor…
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    William Wang
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    Jul 11, 2020
    Personal news in this very challenging academic year: I just received a call from the chancellor, and this letter came in. I want to say THANK YOU and express my deepest gratitude to my family, UCSB #NLProc students, mentors, colleagues, #NLProc friends, and collaborators.
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    William Wang
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    Jan 22, 2020
    Attending your first academic conference...
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    William Wang
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    Mar 19, 2020
    The most comprehensive survey I’ve seen on pretrained language models for #NLProc: arxiv.org/pdf/2003.08271…
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    William Wang
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    Sep 19, 2023
    This is the 7th year after my Ph.D. , and now looking back at my grad school, there are 5 things I wish I had known when I started graduate school. 🧵 1/6
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