🔥 News

[Sep. 2026] 🎉 I joined Auburn University as a first-year Ph.D. student.

👋 About me

🤔 Research interest

My research broadly focuses on LLM Agent Reasoning and Evaluation to build language-model agents that can reason, collaborate, and evaluate their decisions more reliably.

My current research centers on two directions:

  • legal AI reasoning: developing and evaluating LLM-based systems for long-document legal reasoning, understanding, and verifiable decision-making benchmarks.

  • Reasoning and Behavior as Agent Harness: studying reasoning dynamics in multi-agent systems, including collaboration, debate, feedback, self-correction, and the influence of model scale on agent interactions.

📖 Publications

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🌟Google Scholar · [20] citations 🎉

2025

ByteSized32Refactored: Towards an Extensible Interactive Text Games Corpus for LLM World Modeling and Evaluation
    Haonan Wang, Junfeng Sun, Xindi Yuan, Ruoyao Wang, Ziang Xiao.
The 5th WordPlay Workshop at EMNLP 2025 / Paper / Code / Slides / Video
From Noise to Nuance: Enriching Subjective Data Interpretation through Qualitative Analysis
    Ruyuan Wan, Haonan Wang, Ting-Hao Kenneth Huang, Jie Gao.
The 4th HCI + NLP Workshop at EMNLP 2025 / Paper
PerspectiveCoder-LM: An LLM-based Multi-agent System for Large-scale Corpus Inductive Text Coding Analysis
    Haonan Wang, Ziang Xiao, Jie Gao.
GitHub / Project

2024

Unsupervised Feature Selection Algorithm Based on L2,p-norm Feature Reconstruction
    Wei Liu, Qian Ning, Guangwei Liu, Haonan Wang, Yixin Zhu, Miao Zhong.
PLOS ONE / Paper / Code

2022

Research on geometric figure classification algorithm based on Deep Learning
    Ruiyang Wang, Haonan Wang, Junfeng Sun, Mingjia Zhao, Meng Liu.
Advances in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning / Paper

2021

Research status and future prospects of machine learning algorithms in big data analysis
    Haonan Wang
Scientific Journal of Intelligent Systems Research / Paper

📋 Invited Talks & Presentations

“From Interactive Worlds to Agent Reasoning: World Modeling with Large Language Models” May 2026

Institute of Machine Learning and Data Mining, Liaoning Technical University, China

👨‍⚖️ Teaching Experience

[COMP 1230] — Introduction to Computing with MATLAB Graduate Teaching Assistant
Fall 2026
Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering
Auburn University
Numerical Analysis (National First-Class Undergraduate Course) Undergraduate Teaching Assistant
Fall 2020, Fall 2021
College of Science
Liaoning Technical University
Data Mining Undergraduate Teaching Assistant
Fall 2022
College of Science
Liaoning Technical University

🛎 Employment

Research Assistant(Phd Student)
Collaborative Software Engineeringg lab, Auburn University
2026.08 – present
Research Assistant(Master Student)
ISLa lab, Johns Hopkins University
2024.06 – 2026.02
Research Collaborator
Microsoft Research Montréal
2025.4 – 2025.9
Research Intern
EACON, Beijing Easy Control Intelligent Driving Technology Co., LTD
2024.07 – 2024.08
Image Data Science Research Assistant
Computational Cognition, Vision, and Learning Lab, Johns Hopkins University
2024.03 – 2024.04
Research Assistant(Undergraduate Student)
Institute of Mathematics and Systems Science, Liaoning Technology University
2021.09 – 2023.09

📖 Educations

  • 2026.08 - present, Ph.D. Student, Computer Science and Software Engineering, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, USA.

  • 2023.08 - 2025.01, M.S.E. in Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

  • 2019.09 - 2023.07, B.S. degree, Information and Computer Science and Mathematics, Liaoning Technical University, Fuxin, Liaoning, China.

Auburn University Johns Hopkins University Liaoning Technical University

🎖 Honors and Awards

  • Oct 2022 China National Scholarship (Top 1%)
    Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China
    Awarded the highly competitive China National Scholarship, granted to the top 1% of students nationwide in recognition of outstanding academic performance, research excellence, and comprehensive personal development
  • May 2023 Outstanding Student Scholarship, Special Prize(Top 1%)
    Liaoning Province Governiment
  • May 2019,2020,2021,2022 Outstanding Student Scholarship, First Prize(Top 10%)
    Liaoning Technology University

🖥️ Software & Intellectual Property

Software copyrights resulting from collaborative university–industry research projects with academic and industrial partners in China.

[P.1] Artificial Intelligence Robot Programming Interactive Control System
Haonan Wang, Mingjia Zhao, et al. · PRC Software Copyright · 2022 · Registration No. 2022SR1053901

[P.2] Image Recognition Processing Operation Platform
Haonan Wang, Junfeng Sun, et al. · PRC Software Copyright · 2022 · Registration No. 2022SR1052419

[P.3] Artificial Intelligence Community Security Equipment Monitoring System
Haonan Wang, Chang Liu, et al. · PRC Software Copyright · 2022 · Registration No. 2022SR1052492

[P.4] A Network Behavior Analysis System Based on Machine Learning
Haonan Wang, Meng Liu, et al. · PRC Software Copyright · 2022 · Registration No. 2022SR1049807

[P.5] Autonomous Driving Intelligent Dispatching Center Management System
Haonan Wang, Chi Li, et al. · PRC Software Copyright · 2022 · Registration No. 2022SR1052526

[P.6] Unmanned Shortest Path Planning System
Haonan Wang, Ruiyang Wang, et al. · PRC Software Copyright · 2022 · Registration No. 2022SR0935020

[P.7] Data Operation Analysis and Collection System Based on Machine Learning
Haonan Wang, Junfeng Sun, et al. · PRC Software Copyright · 2022 · Registration No. 2022SR1052428

Selected Competition Awards

Award Level Year
1st Place, 12th Mathor Cup College Mathematical Modeling Challenge National 2022
1st Place, 2th Liaoning Mathematical Modeling Contest Provincial 2022
1st Place, 7th Shuwei Mathematical Modeling Challenge for College Students National 2022
1st Place, Liaoning Province “Shuo Ri Cup” College Student Computer Design Competition Provincial 2021
1st Place, Liaoning Agricultural Economic Modeling Competition Provincial 2021
2nd Place, National College Students “Hua Shu Cup” Mathematical Modeling Competition National 2021
2nd Place, 1th Liaoning Mathematical Modeling Contest Provincial 2021
3rd Place, Liaoning Province “Shuo Ri Cup” College Student Computer Design Competition Provincial 2022
3rd Place, 4th Northeast Three Provinces Mathematical Modeling Competition Provincial 2022
3rd Place, 14th National Undergraduate Computer Design Competition National 2021
3rd Place, 11th Mathor Cup University Mathematical Modeling Challenge National 2021

👨‍💻 Mentoring Experience

Junfeng Sun (Master's Student, Institute of Mathematics and Systems Science, Liaoning Technical University)
Project: Horizon-Reachability-Aware Any-Step Dynamics model for Offline Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning
Fall 2024
Mingjia Zhao (Master's Student, Institute of Mathematics and Systems Science, Liaoning Technical University)
Project: Incremental Expansion Method for Modular Reinforcement Learning Based on Language Embedding
Fall 2025
Linhai Zhang (Master's Student, Institute of Mathematics and Systems Science, Liaoning Technical University)
Project: HPPO-ALNS: Hierarchical Control of Search Segments for Vehicle Routing with Time Windows
Fall 2025
Diandian Li (Master's Student, Institute of Mathematics and Systems Science, Liaoning Technical University)
Project: In Progress
Fall 2025

🤝 Collaborators

I deeply appreciate and am grateful to my collaborators and institutions for their continuous support and opportunities to grow in both academic and professional domains.