Ao-Ran Wang @ LAMDA

王 傲 然 Ao-Ran Wang (A.-R. Wang) Ph.D. student, LAMDA Group School of Artificial Intelligence National Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China Email: wangar@lamda.nju.edu.cn Laboratory: Room A201, Shaoyifu Building, Nanjing University Xianlin Campus Supervisor: Professor Zong-Zhang Zhang

Biography

• Currently, I am a Ph.D. student of School of Artificial Intelligence in Nanjing University and a member of LAMDA Group (LAMDA Publications), led by professor Zhi-Hua Zhou.
• I received my B.Sc. degree in School of Artificial Intelligence from Nanjing University in June 2022. In the same year, I was admitted to study for a Ph.D. degree without entrance examination.

Research Interest

My research interests include Reinforcement Learning and its applications. I am currently working on:

• Challenges in Imitation Learning
• Reward Modeling

Publications

Conference Paper:

• Aoran Wang, Lei Ou, Yang Yu, Zongzhang Zhang. Reward Model Evaluation via Automatically-Ranked Policy Alignment. In: Proceedings of the 40th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'26) Main Track, 2026. (Oral)

Awards & Honors

• Excellent Undergraduate Student of Nanjing University. 2022.
• MCM/ICM, Mathematical Contest in Modeling, Meritorious Winner. 2021.
• Huawei Scholarship. 2020.
• Huawei Scholarship. 2019.

Teaching Assistant

• Multi-Agent Systems (with Prof. Zongzhang Zhang, for undergraduate students), Spring, 2024.

Correspondence

Mail:
National Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology, Nanjing University, Xianlin Campus Mailbox 603, 163 Xianlin Avenue, Qixia District, Nanjing 210023, China
(In Chinese:) 南京市栖霞区仙林大道163号，南京大学仙林校区603信箱，软件新技术国家重点实验室，210023。

Last modified: 2025-11-16