RESEARCHER · SHANGHAI AI LABORATORY

Aoran Wang.

Thinking across modalities.
Reasoning about science.

I work on AI for Science, with a focus on multimodal models and scientific reasoning — from equation discovery to the structure of dynamical systems.

Aoran Wang

From observations
to understanding.

AI for ScienceMultimodal modelsScientific reasoning

01 / NEWS & MILESTONES

Recently.

VIPER-R1, our work on visual-to-symbolic physics formula discovery, has been accepted to NeurIPS 2026.

Joined Shanghai AI Laboratory as a researcher.

Successfully defended my doctoral thesis!

More news (4)

Two papers accepted by NeurIPS2024! 🎉 - “Structural Inference of Dynamical Systems with Conjoined State Space Models” is accepted by NeurIPS 2024 Main Track. - “Benchmarking Structural Inference Methods for Interacting Dynamical Systems with Synthetic Data” is accepted by NeurIPS 2024 Datasets and Benchmarks Track.

Our benchmark on LLMs’ ability to reason with educational knowledge graphs is now live! 🎉

Our benchmark on structural inference with synthetic data is now updated with more methods! ⭐

Joined Squirrel AI as a research intern.

02 / SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Ideas, put to paper.

All publications

03 / SELECTED PROJECTS

A few things I’m working on.

All projects

AI FOR SCIENCE

VIPER-R1

Visual-to-symbolic discovery of physical laws from motion plots and observations. Accepted at NeurIPS 2026.

Explore project

A LITTLE BEYOND RESEARCH

Life, off the page.

A place for photographs, small moments, and the occasional note.

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