Xiaoya Wang is a first-year MA student in Applied Linguistics at Teachers College, Columbia University. She holds a bachelor's degree in Business English. Her research interests focus on language assessment, computational linguistics, and corpus linguistics.

Before joining Teachers College, Xiaoya was a visiting student at UC Berkeley for a year, specializing in Phonetics and Phonology. During her time there, she worked as a research assistant on projects related to Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Large Language Models (LLMs) in the Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program (URAP) under the supervision of Dr. Zehlia Babaci-Wilhite.