About
I am Xiaohan Wang, a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at Vanderbilt University. My research aims to design representations for different data modalities and leverage AI/machine learning methods to make data exploration and understanding more efficient and accessible.
🎓 Education
- Ph.D. in Computer ScienceVanderbilt UniversityAug. 2023 – Expected May 2028
- B.Eng. in Software EngineeringNanjing Normal University, Yingcai Honors CollegeSep. 2019 – Jun. 2023
🌱 Interests
- Code and program understanding with large language models
- Large-scale scientific simulation data exploration using machine learning techniques
đź“š Selected Publications
- 2026
- 2026
- 2026
- 2025Seeing the Many: Exploring Parameter Distributions Conditioned on Features in Surrogates 🏅Best Paper Award
- 2025Topology Guidance: Controlling the Outputs of Generative Models via Vector Field Topology
- 2025Who's Pushing the Code? An Exploration of GitHub Impersonation
- 2025EmotionLens: Interactive visual exploration of the circumplex emotion space in literary works via affective word clouds
đź“° News
- Update — 10/2026Our paper “STILL: Recovering Lowered STL Semantics for LLM-assisted C++ Decompilation” has been accepted to EMNLP 2026 Main Conference.
- Update — 10/2026Our paper “ICL4Decomp: Towards Re-executable Reverse Engineering” has been accepted to Findings of EMNLP 2026.
- Update — 10/2026Our paper “Constraint-Guided Multi-Agent Decompilation for Executable Binary Recovery” has been accepted to NeurIPS 2026 Workshop on Evaluation of Interactive Agents.
- 🏆 11/2025Our paper “Seeing the Many: Exploring Parameter Distributions Conditioned on Features in Surrogates” is accepted and received the Best Paper Award at the IEEE Workshop on Uncertainty Visualization.
- 📄 5/2025Our work “Topology Guidance: Controlling the Outputs of Generative Models via Vector Field Topology” is released as an arXiv preprint.
- 📄 3/2025Our collaborative project “EmotionLens: Interactive visual exploration of the circumplex emotion space in literary works via affective word clouds” is published in Visual Informatics.
- 📄 3/2025Our paper “Who's Pushing the Code? An Exploration of GitHub Impersonation” is accepted by ICSE.
- 🎓 2025I began a new research direction under the guidance of Prof. Leach.
- 🎓 11/2024I passed my PhD preliminary examination.
- 🎓 8/2023I started my PhD in Computer Science at Vanderbilt University under the supervision of Prof. Berger.
- 🎓 2020I was selected for Yingcai Honors College.
🏅 Awards
- 2020 - 2022Outstanding Student Scholarship - First Prize Top 5% of cohort