Zhao Wang

Ph.D.
Assistant Instructional Professor in MACSS
The University of Chicago
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Selected Publications

Enhancing Model Robustness and Fairness with Causality: A Regularization Approach
Zhao Wang, Kai Shu, Aron Culotta.
EMNLP, the First Workshop on Causal Inference and NLP, 2021.
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Robustness to Spurious Correlations in Text Classification via Automatically Generated Counterfactuals.
Zhao Wang, Aron Culotta.
In Thirty-Fifth Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Conference (AAAI), 2021.
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Identifying Spurious Correlations for Robust Text Classification.
Zhao Wang, Aron Culotta.
The Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (Findings of EMNLP), 2020.
[Paper] [Code]
When do Words Matter? Understanding the Impact of Lexical Choice on Audience Perception using Individual Treatment Effect Estimation.
Zhao Wang, Aron Culotta.
In Thirty-Third Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Conference (AAAI), 2019.
[Paper] [Code]
Personality and Behavior in Team-based Online Games.
Zhao Wang, Anna Sapienza, Aron Culotta and Emilio Ferrara.
In IEEE Conference on Games (COG), 2019.
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Are Words Commensurate with Actions? Quantifying Commitment to A Cause from Online Public Messaging.
Zhao Wang, Jennifer Cutler, and Aron Culotta.
In IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) Workshop on Data science for Human Performance in Social Networks, 2017.
[Paper] [Poster] [Code]
IAfinder: identifying potential implicit assumptions to facilitate validation in medical cyber-physical system.
Zhicheng Fu, Zhao Wang, Chunhui Guo, Zhenyu Zhang, Shangping Ren, Lui Sha.
Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2018.
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