William (Bill) Xia

Bio

Hello! I am currently working as an AI Product Management Intern at Dassault Systèmes SolidWorks. I graduated from Tufts University in May 2025 with a BS in Computer Science and minors in English and Mathematics.

My work mainly deals with natural language processing. Specifically, I have worked on numerous projects centered around large language models, with topics including biomedical text simplification, information retrieval, and embodied AI agents.

I was previously a Summer Research Intern at the National Library of Medicine (NLM) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). My work at the NLM primarily revolved around PLABA. As part of my internship, I developed a suite of language models capable to identifying complex terms in biomedical abstracts and producing consumer-friendly simplifications for those terms.

Recent Projects

Senior Honors Thesis. I recently defended and submitted my Senior Honors Thesis, under the advisorship of Professor Vasanth Sarathy and Professor Matthias Scheutz. My project involved using natural language world models to ground LLMs to embodied puzzle environments.

Senior Capstone Project. In addition to my Senior Thesis, I also worked on a Senior Capstone Project this year with two of my classmates. Our client was ASLDeafined, an American Sign Language education website. We integrated an AI-powered, Duolingo-like activity generation system into their website.

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