Jian Wang (王健)

Research Professor

College of Computer Science,
Sichuan University,
No. 24, Southern Section, 1st Ring Road, Chengdu, China

Email: wangjian51 (at) scu.edu.cn
jwanglvy (at) gmail.com

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I am a Research Professor and a PhD supervisor at the College of Computer Science, Sichuan University. Before that, I was a Postdoctoral Fellow at PolyU NLP Group. I obtained my PhD degree from Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2024, supervised by Prof. Maggie Wenjie Li. During the spring and summer of 2024, I visited the SLED Lab at University of Michigan, where I was honored to work with Prof. Joyce Chai. During my graduate studies, I was fortunate to visit SIAT, Chinese Academy of Sciences and work with Prof. Min Yang. I obtained MSc and BEng degrees from School of Computer Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology.

Research

My research interests are in natural language processing (NLP), large language models (LLMs), and AI for Science more broadly. Recently, I have been focusing on the following directions:

LLM-based Agents: world models for agents (EMNLP'26a, EMNLP'26b), embodied agents (ACL Findings'26a), task tutoring (ACL Findings'25), agentic RL (arXiv'25a), context learning, etc.
Reasoning and Interaction: strategic reasoning (ACL'26a), situated interaction (ACL'26b), reasoning belief (ACL Findings'26b), test-time scaling (arXiv'25b, AAAI'26), latent reasoning (EMNLP Findings'26), multi-turn consistency (ACL'24), etc.
AI for Biomedicine: AI agents for drug discovery and clinical healthcare.

News

[Sep. 2026] 🔥 We got two papers accepted by NeurIPS 2026! Preprints will be released soon.

[Aug. 2026] 🔥 We got six papers accepted by EMNLP 2026! Congratulations to Youwei, Beichen, Dongding, Rubing, and Xinghao! Welcome to have a chat in Budapest on October!

[Aug. 2026] 🔥 I gave an invited talk on "From PhD to Junior Faculty: Navigating Academic Career Planning and Choices" at YSSNLP 2026.

[Jul. 2026] I gave an invited talk on "From Self-Beliefs to Situational Intelligence: Shaping, Foreseeing, and Reverse Inference of LLM Reasoning" at CCAC 2026.

[May 2026] We got one paper accepted by ICML 2026 and one paper accepted by IJCAI 2026.

[Apr. 2026] I gave an invited talk on "Reasoning and Interaction in LLM Agents" at SCU.

[Apr. 2026] We got four papers accepted by ACL 2026. Congratulations to Dongding, Jiashuo, Chak Tou, and Hanlin!

[Apr. 2026] I gave an invited talk on "AI Agents and Their Applications in Biomedicine" at SCU State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy.

[Dec. 2025] I gave an invited talk on "Stepwise Verification in LLM Agents: Planning, Tutoring, and Test-time Scaling" at SUSTech, Shenzhen.

[Nov. 2025] I will be heading to Suzhou for EMNLP 2025. Welcome to have a chat!

[Jun. 2025] Our ACL paper was selected as an oral presentation (Top 8%)! Congrats to Chak Tou Leong!

[May. 2025] We got three papers accepted by ACL 2025! Welcome to have a chat in Vienna.

[Feb. 2025] I was thrilled to be awarded the PolyU Postdoc Matching Fund!

[Nov. 2024] I started to work as a Postdoc at PolyU NLP Group.

[Sep. 2024] I defended my PhD thesis. Huge thanks to my supervisor and committee members!

[May 2024] I got one paper accepted by ACL 2024! Welcome to have a chat in Bangkok.

[Dec. 2023] I will be visiting the SLED Lab at University of Michigan, starting from Feb. 2024. This is so exciting!

[Oct. 2023] I got two papers accepted by EMNLP 2023! I will be heading to Singapore in December.

[Jul. 2023] I will be heading to Toronto for ACL 2023. This is the first time to attend an in-person academic conference during my PhD journey, and the first time to visit abroad during my life!

[Apr. 2023] I passed the confirmation of registration at PolyU. Officially became a PhD candidate!