Xiaowei R. Wang, PhD

Xiaowei Wang is a postdoctoral fellow at UCLA and The Center on Race and Digital Justice.1 They are also a faculty member for the Master in Design for Responsible AI program at Elisava, the University School of Design and Engineering of Barcelona.

Wang's work focuses on the intersection of responsible AI, media, and design in the context of climate emergency. Some key points about Xiaowei Wang include:

Research and Academic Positions

• Postdoctoral scholar at the University of California Los Angeles's Center on Race and Digital Justice1
• Faculty member teaching a course on responsible AI as part of the Master in Design for Responsible AI program at Elisava

Other Roles

• Lead Steward of Collective Action School, a community-driven school for tech workers seeking to make changes within or outside their workplaces1

Research Interests

Wang's work explores topics such as:

• Critical approaches to AI and technology
• Climate change and its relationship to colonialism and computation
• Queer computing and alternative models of computation
• Speculative approaches to history and archaeology using AI

Current Projects

Wang is working on a project called "An Archive of Witch Fever," which examines:

• Climate, queer computation, and speculative approaches to the past
• Using artificial neural networks to explore and reimagine historical archives
• Creating speculative botany patterns that challenge colonial narratives of progress and extraction

Wang's approach emphasizes critical perspectives on technology, challenging linear notions of progress, and exploring alternative ways of understanding the past and future through AI and computation.