Assistant Professor
Prof. Zhangyang “Atlas” Wang is a tenured associate professor and holds the Temple Foundation Endowed Faculty Fellowship #7 in the Chandra Family Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. He is also a faculty member of UT Computer Science, and the Oden Institute CSEM program. Since May 2024, Dr. Wang has been on leave from UT Austin to serve as the full-time Research Director for XTX Markets in New York City, leading groundbreaking efforts at the intersection of algorithmic trading and deep learning.
Previously, Dr. Wang was the Jack Kilby/Texas Instruments Endowed Assistant Professor in the same department from 2020 to 2023; and an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University from 2017 to 2020. Alongside his academic career, he has also explored multiple exciting opportunities in the industry. He was a visiting scholar at Amazon Search from 2021 to 2022, leveraging geometric deep learning for recommendation systems. Later, he took on the (part-time) role of Director of AI Research & Technology for Picsart from 2022 to 2024, where he led the company’s ambitious initiative in video generative AI. He earned his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from UIUC in 2016, under the guidance of Professor Thomas S. Huang, and his B.E. in EEIS from USTC in 2012.