Ao-Ran Wang @ LAMDA
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王 傲 然
Ao-Ran 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 |
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Biography
- Currently, I am a Ph.D. student of School of Artificial Intelligence in Nanjing University, advised by Prof. Zongzhang Zhang and Prof. Yang Yu. I am 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
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Aoran Wang, Jingtao Zhang, Maosen Li, Zongzhang Zhang. DiReCL: Learning Differentiable Reward Code with Inverse Reinforcement Learning. To appear in: Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 40 (NeurIPS'26), 2026.
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Wenjie Qiu*, Xuqin Zhang*, Yihang Zhang, Aoran Wang, Zongzhang Zhang, Yang Yu. Bridging Reward Model Evaluation and Policy Evaluation through Ranking Consistency. In: Proceedings of the 32nd ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD'26), 2026.
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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), 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。