Zijie Jay Wang

Hi, I'm Jay. I'm a safety researcher at OpenAI.

My research focuses on making AI more accessible, interpretable, and accountable, by designing and developing novel interactive interfaces for people to easily and enjoyably interact with machine learning systems at scale.

Previously, I was an ML PhD student working with Polo Chau at Georgia Tech, with funding from the Apple Scholars in AI/ML PhD fellowship and the J.P. Morgan AI PhD Fellowship.

News
Aug. 13, 2024
I'm thrilled to begin my first full-time role as a safety researcher at OpenAI. I have also moved to San Francisco! 🌉
July 26, 2024
I have successfully defended my PhD thesis! Huge thanks to my incredible committee members: Polo Chau, Judy Hoffman, Munmun De Choudhury, Lauren Wilcox, Jenn Wortman Vaughan, and Rich Caruana!! 🎓
July 10, 2024
I will attend SIGIR'24 in DC to present MeMemo, a JavaScript library that enables vector search and vector database in web browsers. MeMemo won the Best Short Paper, Honorable Mention Award! Let's meet up! 🏛️
April 25, 2024
Farsight is recognized with a Best Paper, Honorable Mention award at CHI 2024! I will attend CHI in Honolulu. Let's meet up! 🌊
March 5, 2024
Two papers Farsight and SuperNOVA are accepted to CHI 2024! Farsight fosters responsible AI awareness during AI prototyping 🌱, while SuperNOVA highlights design opportunities and challenges for visualizations in computational notebooks! 📝
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Featured Publications
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Fun Projects
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RecRec: Interactive recommender for recommendation letter writers, such as for tenure package and green card petition.
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Clip2imgur: Convenient macOS command line tool for uploading screen-shots from the clipboard to Imgur.
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FaceData: MacOS GUI to auto-annotate facial landmarks from a video. Landmarks can be used to train GANs.
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Graphics on the Web: Interactive 2D, 2.5D and 3D computational graphics with shaders and textures, created with HTML canvas and webGL.
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Group Assignment Problem: Flexible and robust Mixed Integer Quadratic Programming model written in Julia to solve a real-life optimization problem.
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Dean's list Vis: Interactive geo-visualization to explore where UW–Madison Chinese students are from.