Sitong Wang

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I am a final-year PhD student at Columbia CS Columbia, advised by Lydia Chilton. My work focuses on human-AI interaction, with an emphasis on multimodal and agentic AI. I design, build, and evaluate AI systems that support human creativity and productivity.

Previously, I interned twice at Adobe Research Adobe with Dingzeyu Li, Anh Truong, and Mira Dontcheva on the video research team. I've also collaborated with Xiaojuan Ma at HKUST CSEHKUST and Panagiotis Apostolellis at UVA CSUVA.

I will be joining Microsoft Research Asia Microsoft this September as a Senior Researcher on the Future Media Experience team. If you are interested in collaborating or would like to connect, please feel free to reach out!

Research

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Rewriting Video
IUI 2026 ✨Best Paper Candidate✨ Rewriting Video: Text-Driven Reauthoring of Video Footage Sitong Wang, Anh Truong, Lydia Chilton, Dingzeyu Li
Schemex
Under submission Schemex: Discovering Structural Abstractions from Examples Sitong Wang, Samia Menon, Dingzeyu Li, Xiaojuan Ma, Richard Zemel, 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
Human Creativity
HICSS 2026 The Role of Human Creativity in the Presence of AI Creativity Tools at Work: A Case Study on AI-Driven Content Transformation in Journalism Sitong Wang, Jocelyn McKinnon-Crowley, Tao Long, Kian Lua, Keren Henderson, Kevin Crowston, Jeffrey Nickerson, Mark Hansen, 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 Workshop Facilitating Longitudinal Interaction Studies of AI Systems Tao Long, Sitong Wang, Émilie Fabre, Tony Wang, Anup Sathya, Jason Wu, Savvas Petridis, Dingzeyu Li, David Ledo, Tuhin Chakrabarty, Yue Jiang, Jingyi Li, Tiffany Tseng, Ken Nakagaki, Qian Yang, Nikolas Martelaro, Jeffrey 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 Porquet, Sitong Wang, Lydia Chilton
PodReels
DIS 2024 PodReels: Human-AI Co-Creation of Video Podcast Teasers Sitong Wang, Zheng Ning, Anh Truong, Mira Dontcheva, Dingzeyu Li, Lydia Chilton
MoodSmith
ICCC 2024 MoodSmith: Enabling Mood-Consistent Multimedia for AI-Generated Advocacy Campaigns Samia Menon, Sitong Wang, Lydia Chilton
ReelFramer
CHI 2024 ReelFramer: Human-AI Co-Creation for News-to-Video Translation Sitong Wang, Samia Menon, Tao Long, Keren Henderson, Dingzeyu Li, Kevin Crowston, Mark Hansen, Jeffrey Nickerson, 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
PopBlends
CHI 2023 PopBlends: Strategies for Conceptual Blending with Large Language Models Sitong Wang, Savvas Petridis, Taeahn Kwon, Xiaojuan Ma, 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
ASEE
ASEE 2020 A Student Engagement Evaluation Methodology Inspired from Usability Engineering for Extracting Course Design Requirements Sitong Wang, Panagiotis Apostolellis

Mentoring

One of the most rewarding parts of my PhD has been mentoring these incredible students and seeing how they grow and thrive.