Zichao (Jack) Wang 王子超

Zichao (Jack) Wang
王子超

Machine intelligence for human intelligence

About

I am a research scientist at Adobe Research. My research vision is to develop AI that works with humans, with applications to learning, productivity, and creativity. Specifically, my current research focuses on the following directions:

Human-Centered Workflow Automation
Developing AI agents that automate complex workflows under a mixed-initiative paradigm — where the human remains in the driver's seat, can naturally interrupt or take over at any point, and the system intelligently determines what to automate and when to defer to the user.
Agent-UX Co-Design
Developing AI agents with end-user experience as a first-class design consideration, jointly shaping agent capabilities and interaction patterns with the interface.
Scalable Experimentation and Evaluation
Developing simulation-based techniques for rapid evaluation of product prototypes, early user signal extraction, and scalable A/B testing.

My research has led to several major technical contributions to the award-winning Acrobat AI Assistant used by millions of professionals, including personalized question generation and on-device small language model for document summarization. I hold 2 US patents with 8 additional patents pending.

See my research work on AI for education
Before joining Adobe, I pioneered multiple novel AI methodologies for education use cases [1,2,3] during my doctoral studies, some of which are patented [1] or already deployed [1]. I continue to contribute to this direction through academic collaborations [1,2] and by serving as a speaker, organizer, and advisor in various AI for education initiatives [1,2,3]. I am a recipient of the Rising Star in Data Science award, a grand prize winner at the NAEP Reading Automated Scoring Challenge, the Loewenstern Fellowship, the Ken Kennedy Institute Schlumberger Graduate Fellowship, among others.

Collaborations and discussions are always welcome! I especially welcome internship collaborations relevant to my Adobe research interests/initiatives, and academic collaborations relevant to AI for education applications. We start to look for interns around Oct/Nov every year. Apply here.

Contact: jackwa at adobe com

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