Zhangyang “Atlas” Wang is the Temple Foundation Endowed Associate Professor #7 in the Chandra Family Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. He leads the VITA group of UT (https://vita-group.github.io/). Since May 2024, he has been on leave from UT Austin to serve as the full-time Research Director for XTX Markets, heading their new AI Lab in New York City. Dr. Wang’s core research mission is to leverage, understand and expand the role of low dimensionality in ML and optimization, whose impacts span over many important topics such as the efficiency and trust issues in large language models (LLMs) as well as generative vision.