🔥 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

[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)
Collaborative Software Engineeringg lab, Auburn University
2026.08 – present
Research Assistant
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
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 and Competition Awards

Software Patents :

—🙏Thanks to the software application development collaboration with all Professors and Graduate Assistants from the SpringTeng AI and Liaoning Technical University, Liaoning University, and Qinghua University, being funded through our collaboration with Chinese central State-owned Shenhua Ming Group Ltd and Zijin Ming Group Ltd enterprises.
[P.1] Haonan Wang, Mingjia, Zhao, et al. (2022). Artificial intelligence robot programming interactive control system. PRC Software Copyright Patent, Patent No. 2022SR1053901.
[P.2] Haonan Wang, Junfeng, Sun, et al. (2022). Image recognition processing operation platform. PRC Software Copyright Patent, Patent No. 2022SR1052419.
[P.3] Haonan Wang, Chang, Liu, et al. (2022). Artificial Intelligence Community Security Equipment Monitoring System. PRC Software Copyright Patent, Patent No. 2022SR1052492.
[P.4] Haonan Wang, Meng, Liu, et al. (2022). A network behavior analysis system based on machine learning. PRC Software Copyright Patent, Patent No. 2022SR1049807.
[P.5] Haonan Wang, Chi, Li, et al. (2022). Autonomous Driving Intelligent Dispatching Center Management System. PRC Software Copyright Patent, Patent No. 2022SR1052526.
[P.6] Haonan Wang, Ruiyang, Wang, et al. (2022). Unmanned shortest path planning system. PRC Software Copyright Patent, Patent No.2022SR0935020.
[P.7] Haonan Wang, Junfeng Sun, et al. (2022). Data operation analysis and collection system based on machine learning. PRC Software Copyright Patent, Patent No. 2022SR1052428.
[P.8] Jiawei, Zhang, Pengyu, Cai, Haonan Wang, et al. (2021). Staff check-in face recognition system.PRC Software Copyright. PRC Software Copyright Patent, Patent No. 2021SR0699354.

Competition Awards(Mathematical Modeling and Computer Science Design):

• 1st Place, 12th Mathor Cup College Mathematical Modeling Challenge 2022
National-level award in China
• 1st Place, Liaoning Mathematical Modeling Contest 2022
Provincial-level award in China
• 1st Place, 7th Shuwei Mathematical Modeling Challenge for College Students 2022
National-level award in China
• 1st Place, 12th Mathor Cup College Mathematical Modeling Challenge 2022
National-level award in China
• 3rd Place, Liaoning Province “Shuo Ri Cup” College Student Computer Design 2022
Provincial-level award in China
• 3rd Place, Northeast Three Provinces Mathematical Modeling Competition 2022
Provincial-level award in China
• 2nd Place, American Mathematical Contest in Modeling 2022
International award
• 3rd Place, 14th National Undergraduate Computer Design Competition 2021
National-level award in China
• 3rd Place, 11th Mathor Cup University Mathematical Modeling Challenge 2021
National-level award in China
• 2nd Place, National College Students “Hua Shu Cup” Mathematical Modeling 2021
National-level award in China
• 1st Place, Liaoning Province “Shuo Ri Cup” College Student Computer Design 2021
Provincial-level award in China,
• 1st Place, Liaoning AgricuLNTUral Economic Modeling Competition 2021
Provincial-level award in China
• 1st Place, Outstanding Scholarship of the Faculty of Science, LNTU 2021
School-level award in China
• 1st Place, Career Planning Competition of the Faculty of Science, LNTU 2021
School-level award in China
• Academic Achievement Award of the School of Science, LNTU 2021
School-level award in China
• 2nd Place, Liaoning Mathematical Modeling Contest 2021
Provincial-level award in China

🤝 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.