William Wang
@WilliamWangNLP
CEO & Founder, @AlphaDesignAI. We make http://ChipAgents.ai I'm also Mellichamp Chair Prof. at UCSB CS. PhD @ CMU SCS.
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
It is official: my first day at UCSB as a faculty. Happy to join the force to advance AI research and nurture talent. Let's go @ucsbNLP @ucsbcs!
On Monday, a United States District Court ruled that training LLMs on copyrighted books constitutes fair use. A number of authors had filed suit against Anthropic for training its models on their books without permission. Just as we allow people to read books and learn from them…
What a day at #DAC2025 conference! We are building the next generation of agentic AI EDA solutions. Join us: chipagents.ai/careers
Super excited about showcasing ChipAgents agentic AI solutions for design and verification at DAC 2025!
Exciting to see big crowd at ChipAgents’ Waveform Agent demo at DAC!
Congratulations to all! Super excited to graduate 7 PhD students this year: they are joining UW, Princeton, Google x 2, xAI, Amazon, and Meta. They are the future of AI!
Lined up and ready to walk (put me on the Jumbotron pls) #ucsb2025
ChipAgents' Head of Engineering Mehir Arora explains the differences between LLMs and AI Agents to the EDA community. A must watch! 🚀
Agentic AI In Chip Design SemiEngineering's latest Tech Talk looks at what comes next after generative AI, and how that will be used in EDA. semiengineering.com/agentic-ai-and… #semiEDA #LLMs @AlphaDesignAI #AgenticAI #GenAI #semiconductor
Trying out the new, free Starlink Internet access on a United regional flight. It’s shockingly fast. 🤯
ChipAgents is hiring multiple positions: chipagents.ai/careers We’re a fast-moving, venture-backed startup building AI agents that revolutionize chip design and verification—and we’re growing our on-site team in beautiful Santa Barbara. Come help us push the boundaries of…
New paper 🚨📜🚀 Introducing “Agents of Change: Self-Evolving LLM Agents for Strategic Planning”! In this work, we show how LLM-powered agents can rewrite their own prompts & code to climb the learning curve in the board game Settlers of Catan 🎲 🧵👇
Revoking visas to Chinese PhD students is economically shortsighted and inhumane. Most Chinese PhD students stay in the U.S. after graduation (first image, stats from 2022). They're staying and building technology in the U.S., not taking it to China. Immigrant students create…
International students, and Chinese students in particular, are essential to the AI research ecosystem in the US. You can't say you support AI research in this country and then threaten to revoke Chinese students' visas.
Thrilled Gödel Agent got noticed by Sakana AI & excited for their expansion! Accepted at ACL 2025, our 1st fully self-referential agent can read & modify its entire logic (even that logic). Done via recursion. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2410.04444
Introducing The Darwin Gödel Machine: AI that improves itself by rewriting its own code sakana.ai/dgm The Darwin Gödel Machine (DGM) is a self-improving agent that can modify its own code. Inspired by evolution, we maintain an expanding lineage of agent variants,…
Approximately 44% of U.S. unicorn startups (valued at $1 billion or more) were founded by immigrants. As of 2024, 46% of Fortune 500 companies were founded by immigrants or their children, collectively generating over $8.6 trillion in revenue and employing millions. Immigrants…
Lab celebration lunch after @XinyiWang98's defense!
DeepPath hits 1,000 citations! 🎉 Back in 2017, we introduced DeepPath, one of the earliest reinforcement learning frameworks for multi-hop reasoning over discrete knowledge graph structures. The idea was simple but ambitious: use an RL agent to learn relational paths in…
Amazing Alfonso! We are lucky to have you as a part of the team!
📰 Thrilled to be featured in my hometown newspaper🤯 @diariodeburgos as part of a series on people living abroad! The article discusses my journey from Burgos to California. Check out the article in español 🇪🇸🔗diariodeburgos.es/noticia/z35dd9…
Excited to share our paper at #ICML2025! We've developed MELON🍉, a robust defense method against indirect prompt injection attacks on LLM agents that achieves near 0 ASR! Hope you enjoy🍉! Grateful to my incredible collaborators! @WilliamWangNLP @WenboGuo4 @jd92wang @xianjun_agi
Happening Now: Xinyi Wang on distributional memorization vs distributional generalization for tracing LLM capabilities back to training data at #ICLR2025 @XinyiWang98 poster 244.
