Haonan Wang

Haonan Wang

Auburn University

🔥 News

  • [Sep. 2026]: 🎉 I join Auburn University as a first-year Ph.D. student.
  • [Jan. 2025]: 🎉 I became a Graduate Research Assistant Volunteer with the ISLE lab, working with Ziang Xiao and Jie Gao at Johns Hopkins University.
  • [Dec. 2024]: 🎉 Graduated with my Master's in Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University.

👋 About me

  • Currently Now:
    I am an Incoming PhD student at the Computer Science and Software Engineering at Auburn University, advised by Effat Farhana.

  • In my Master:
    I received my Master’s degree in Computer Science Engineering at Johns Hopkins University (JHU) in the 2025 Spring. During my master’s study, I am also a graduate research assistant volunteer at the Johns Hopkins University, working withProf. Ziang Xiao and Postdoc Fellow. Jie Gao and I have also actively engaged in NLP discussions with Prof. Jason Eisner(Faculty advisor) at the Center for Language and Speech Processing (CLSP).

  • In my Undergraduate:
    I received my B.S. degree in Information and Computer Science, and Mathematics from Liaoning Technology University in the 2023 Spring. During my undergrad study, I spent time at the Institute of Mathematics and Systems Science and the Institute of Machine Learning and Data Mining, where I was advised by Prof. Wei Liu and Prof.Yu Zhang works in Multivariate Statistical Analysis, Machine Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Informatics Theory, Numerical Analysis, and Math Modeling and Optimization Algorithms.
  • Another activity:
    I am also a Co-founder of SpringTeng AI, a startup and community based in the China National University Science Park. This community focuses on developing AI data analysis systems, Software Patents Apps for industry technologies, and collaborating with companies such as EACON Driverless and the Chinese Ming Group.

🤔 Research interest

My research lies at the intersection of Large Language Models, Machine Learning, and Legal AI. I am particularly interested in building and evaluating LLM-based systems that can understand, extract, and explain structured information from long legal documents.

Currently, my work focuses on:

  • Legal Argument Mining with LLMs: extracting structured arguments, obligations, claims, evidence, and reasoning patterns from legal texts.
  • Human-Centered Legal AI: studying whether the outputs generated by LLMs are reliable, interpretable, and understandable to human users.
  • Long-Document Legal Understanding: evaluating how LLMs handle long, complex legal documents in realistic legal decision-making scenarios.

📖 Publications

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2026

Position: Large Language Models are Insufficient for Complex Real-World Legal Argumentation Mining
    Haonan Wang, Mingjia Zhao, Sungbin Park, Vitor Ribas Moura, Effat Farhana.
arXiv / Paper

2025

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
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
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
    Haonan Wang, Junfeng Sun, Xindi Yuan, Ruoyao Wang, Ziang Xiao.
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

🖥 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 for China

🎖 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

📖 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

💻 Internships

🤝 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.