Chi Wang

About

I am a principal researcher in Microsoft Research AI Frontiers. My current research focuses on Large Language Model and AI frameworks. I built AutoGen (opens in new tab), an open-source library for enabling the next-generation of large language model and AI applications and lead the research and development of it. My past research has led to life-changing technologies for data scientists and engineers. For example, I built FLAML (opens in new tab), a fast library for automated machine learning and tuning. It is used widely inside and outside Microsoft, for example, in Azure, Microsoft 365, Microsoft Fabric, and Visual Studio.

I completed my PhD from the Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) (opens in new tab), winning a SIGKDD Data Science/Data Mining PhD Dissertation Award in 2015 (opens in new tab). I had the pleasure to be advised by Professor Jiawei Han (opens in new tab) during the course of my PhD as a member of the Database and Information System (DAIS) Lab (opens in new tab). I received my Bachelor’s degree in CS from Tsinghua University.