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Research Team Profile
Zixuan Wang
Research at the intersection of computational social science, language technology, and applied AI, spanning publications, research software, and conference presentations.
Overview
Selected publications, manuscripts, open-source software, and conference presentations by Zixuan Wang.
Available for research collaboration, invited talks, and correspondence related to current work and open-source tools.
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Manuscripts
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Software
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Presentations
Research focus
Computational social science
Research on social attitudes, social positions, and digital behavior using quantitative and computational approaches.
Research focus
Language technology
Work on large language models, retrieval-augmented systems, and representation questions in language and cognition.
Research focus
Open research tools
Software projects built to make research workflows and dialogue data generation more practical and reusable.
Publications
Published and in press.
Peer-reviewed work published or accepted for publication.
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Wang, Z., & Peng, C. (2026). Concerns about attributing weight change to processing in a crossover feeding trial. Nature Medicine.
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Wang, Z., & Peng, C. (in press). From ties to coordinates: Recovering latent social positions with graph neural networks. Frontiers in Big Data, 8, 1650187.
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Wang, Z. (in press). Contact with women and misogynistic attitudes among cisgender heterosexual men. Current Psychology.
Manuscripts Under Review & In Revision
Current review pipeline.
Current submissions and revision-stage manuscripts in active review.
Leivada, E., Wang, Z., D'Alessandro, R., Dentella, V., Lopez, L., Moro, A., Morosi, P., Moskvina, N., Pagliarini, E., Murphy, E., & Günther, F. (n.d.). Large language models do not make active use of latent tree-structure sentence representations. Nature Human Behaviour.
Under Review, Revision Submitted
Wang, Z.*, & Peng, C. (n.d.). PhiloGPT: A retrieval-augmented language model system enables coherent and source-grounded responses to complex philosophical queries. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications.
Minor Revision
Software & Open Source
Research software.
Open-source tools and data workflows supporting research and model development.
Open-source project
GTFlow
End-to-end tool for Grounded Theory research.
Open-source project
Text2Dialog
Converting Long Texts into Trainable Dialogue Data.
Conference Presentations
Talks and conference papers.
Selected talks and conference presentations across social areas.
Conference
The British Psychological Society Social Psychology Section Annual Conference 2025
Oral Presentation
Wang, Z., & Peng, C. "Tracking emotional intake on social media through screenomics"
Blitz Presentation
Wang, Z. "Scarce and Sour: Contact with Women and Misogynistic Attitudes among Cisgender Heterosexual Men"
Conference
2026 Southeast Regional Conference of the Association for Asian Studies
Wang, Z. "Ghost Characters and Name Rights in East Asia: Encoding, Recognition, and Everyday Citizenship"
Conference
Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting 2026
Wang, Z. "Adapting Large Language Models for Applied Anthropology: Benchmarking, Risks, and Reinforcement Learning Posttraining"
Contact
Research collaborations and correspondence.
For research collaboration, invited talks, software questions, or general correspondence.
Email is the best route for discussing ongoing research, conference invitations, software collaboration, or questions about publications and manuscripts.
Messages with a clear research question, project context, or collaboration idea are especially welcome.