Weicheng Ma

Assistant Professor, Oakland University
Visiting Scholar, Dartmouth College

Education:
  • (2019–2024) Ph.D. in CS, Dartmouth College
    • Advisor: Prof. Soroush Vosoughi
  • (2013–2015) M.S. in CS, New York University
    • Advisor: Prof. Ralph Grishman
  • (2009–2013) B.S. in CS, Communication University of China
Visiting Experience:
  • (2023-2024) Visiting Student Researcher, Stanford University
    • Hosted by Prof. Diyi Yang
  • (2023) Visiting Student Researcher, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
    • Hosted by Prof. Heng Ji

Grants

The following grants I helped write have been awarded:
  • Neukom CompX Faculty Grants, 2023. Epigenomic-Trascriptomic Modeling with Multi-Omic Data and DNA Sequences Leveraging Graph Neural Networks
    • PI(s): Xiaofeng Wang and Soroush Vosoughi
  • Google Research Award, 2022. Culture-Aware Language Models
    • PI(s): Soroush Vosoughi
  • Cisco Research Grant, 2022. Personality-Aware Dialogue Generation
    • PI(s): Soroush Vosoughi

Mentoring

The following students are currently doing research under my supervision:
  • Anusha Murali (since 08/2025) [Master's student, Dartmouth College]
  • Biyon Wanninayake (since 06/2025) [Undergrad student, Dartmouth College]
  • Lorenzo Cuellar (since 06/2024) [Undergrad student, Dartmouth College]
  • Stanley Chen (since 06/2024) [Undergrad student, Dartmouth College]
  • Kason Sabazan-Chambers (since 04/2024) [Undergrad student, Dartmouth College]
  • Joe Zhu (since 02/2025) [Undergrad student, Georgia Institute of Technology]
  • Zishuo Wang (since 02/2025) [Undergrad student, Georgia Institute of Technology]
  • Yahan Zheng (since 10/2024) [Master's student, Dartmouth College]
  • Ashna Ghanate (since 04/2024) [Master's student, Dartmouth College]
  • John Guerrerio (since 03/2024) [Undergrad student, Dartmouth College]
  • Zachary Stephens (since 03/2024) [Undergrad student, Dartmouth College]
  • James Quirk (since 03/2024) [Undergrad student, Dartmouth College]
  • Idil Sahin (since 03/2024) [Undergrad student, Dartmouth College]
  • Ahmed Elmi (since 03/2024) [Undergrad student, Dartmouth College]
  • Ram Gorthi (since 03/2024) [Undergrad student, Dartmouth College]
  • Chip Nguyen (since 03/2024) [Undergrad student, Dartmouth College]
  • Ethan Gearey (since 07/2023) [Undergrad student, Dartmouth College]
  • Brian Chiang (since 02/2023) [Undergrad student, Dartmouth College]
  • Tyler Vergho (since 10/2023) [Master's student, Dartmouth College]
  • Barkin Cavdaroglu (since 09/2023) [Master's student, Dartmouth College]
  • Kamakshi Moparthi (since 09/2023) [Master's student, Dartmouth College]