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Sitong Wang

PhD Candidate, Columbia CS

I am a final-year CS PhD student at Columbia University Columbia, lucky to be advised by Prof. Lydia Chilton. My research focuses on human-AI interaction, with an emphasis on creative and multimodal AI systems.

I design, build, and evaluate AI-powered tools that support human creativity and productivity, spanning video authoring, exploratory programming, and agentic workflows.

Previously, I was fortunate to intern at Adobe Research Adobe twice with Ding Li, Anh Truong, and Mira Dontcheva, and to work with Prof. Xiaojuan Ma at HKUST HKUST and Prof. Panagiotis Apostolellis at UVA UVA.

I am joining Microsoft Research Asia Microsoft this fall as a senior researcher in the Future Media Experience team. If you're interested in research collaboration or just want to chat, please feel free to reach out!

Research

Rewriting Video
IUI 2026 ✨Best Paper Candidate✨ Rewriting Video: Text-Driven Reauthoring of Video Footage Sitong Wang, Anh Truong, Lydia Chilton, Ding Li
Schemex
Under submission Schemex: Discovering Structural Abstractions from Examples Sitong Wang, Samia Menon, Ding Li, Xiaojuan Ma, Rich Zemel, Lydia Chilton
PodReels
DIS 2024 PodReels: Human-AI Co-Creation of Video Podcast Teasers Sitong Wang, Zheng Ning, Anh Truong, Mira Dontcheva, Ding Li, Lydia Chilton
ReelFramer
CHI 2024 ReelFramer: Human-AI Co-Creation for News-to-Video Translation Sitong Wang, Samia Menon, Tao Long, Keren Henderson, Ding Li, Kevin Crowston, Mark Hansen, Jeff Nickerson, Lydia Chilton
PopBlends
CHI 2023 PopBlends: Strategies for Conceptual Blending with Large Language Models Sitong Wang, Savvas Petridis, Taeahn Kwon, Xiaojuan Ma, Lydia Chilton

Zoro
Under submission Zoro: Active Rules for Reliable Vibe Coding Jenny Ma, Sitong Wang, Josh Kung, Lydia Chilton
DoubleAgents
Under submission DoubleAgents: Human-Agent Alignment in a Socially Embedded Workflow Tao Long*, Xuanming Zhang*, Sitong Wang, Zhou Yu, Lydia Chilton
JumpStarter
Under submission JumpStarter: Human-AI Planning with Task-Structured Context Curation Xuanming Zhang*, Sitong Wang*, Jenny Ma, Alyssa Hwang, Andrew Head, Zhou Yu, Lydia Chilton
SSR
ACL 2026 Findings Simple Self-Rewarding Reinforcement Learning for Machine Translation Wenjie Yang, Mao Zheng, Mingyang Song, Zheng Li, Sitong Wang
Longitudinal Study
UIST 2025 Facilitating Longitudinal Interaction Studies of AI Systems Tao Long, Sitong Wang, Émilie Fabre, Tony Wang, Anup Sathya, Jason Wu, Savvas Petridis, Ding Li, David Ledo, Tuhin Chakrabarty, Yue Jiang, Jingyi Li, Tiffany Tseng, Ken Nakagaki, Qian Yang, Nikolas Martelaro, Jeff Nickerson, Lydia Chilton
DynEx
CHI 2025 ✨Best Paper Honorable Mention Award✨ DynEx: Dynamic Code Synthesis with Structured Design Exploration for Accelerated Exploratory Programming Jenny Ma, Karthik Sreedhar, Vivian Liu, Pedro Perez, Sitong Wang, Riya Sahni, Lydia Chilton
AI Style Transfer
CHI 2025 Copying style, Extracting value: Illustrators' Perception of AI Style Transfer and its Impact on Creative Labor Julien Posture, Sitong Wang, Lydia Chilton
MoodSmith
ICCC 2024 MoodSmith: Enabling Mood-Consistent Multimedia for AI-Generated Advocacy Campaigns Samia Menon, Sitong Wang, Lydia Chilton
Writing Assistants
CHI 2024 A Design Space for Intelligent and Interactive Writing Assistants Mina Lee, Katy Gero, John Chung, [et al., including Sitong Wang]
Tweetorial Hooks
ICCC 2023 Tweetorial Hooks: Generative AI Tools to Motivate Science on Social Media Tao Long, Dorothy Zhang, Grace Li, Batool Taraif, Samia Menon, Kynnedy Smith, Sitong Wang, Katy Gero, Lydia Chilton
Metaphoraction
TOCHI 2022 Metaphoraction: Support Gesture-based Interaction Design with Metaphorical Meanings Zhida Sun, Sitong Wang, Chengzhong Liu, Xiaojuan Ma
Health Rumor
ICWSM 2022 Know it to Defeat it: Exploring Health Rumor Characteristics and Debunking Efforts on Chinese Social Media during COVID-19 Wenjie Yang, Sitong Wang*, Zhenhui Peng*, Chuhan Shi, Diyi Yang, Xiaojuan Ma
MetaMap
CHI 2021 MetaMap: Supporting Visual Metaphor Ideation through Multi-dimensional Example-based Exploration Youwen Kang*, Zhida Sun*, Sitong Wang, Zeyu Huang, Ziming Wu, Xiaojuan Ma
Food Postcard
DIS 2020 "A Postcard from Your Food Journey in the Past": Promoting Self-Reflection on Social Food Posting Zhida Sun, Sitong Wang, Wenjie Yang, Onur Yürüten, Chuhan Shi, Xiaojuan Ma

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