BACKGROUND / EXPERIENCE

A path shaped
by curiosity.

Researcher at Shanghai AI Laboratory. Previously trained in Luxembourg, Karlsruhe, and Shanghai.

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General Information

Name

Aoran Wang

Position

Researcher

Affiliation

Shanghai AI Laboratory, Shanghai, China

Languages

Chinese (Native), English (B2), German (C1)

Pronouns

He/Him

Research Interests

AI for Science and multimodal foundation models.

Scientific and formal reasoning, with an emphasis on equation discovery and visual-to-symbolic inference.

Structural inference and graph learning for dynamical systems.

Experience

May 2025 - Present

Researcher

Shanghai AI Laboratory, Shanghai, China

  • Conduct research in AI for Science, focusing on multimodal models and scientific reasoning.
  • Investigate equation discovery, visual-to-symbolic reasoning, and structural inference of dynamical systems.
  • Contribute to scientific foundation models, native structural reasoning, and physics reasoning benchmarks.
2020

Graduate Assistant for Autonomous Driving

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

  • Engineered an innovative visual localization technique using Graph Neural Networks and OpenCV to enhance the precision of monocular camera-based navigation in autonomous vehicles.
  • Successfully presented and published the outcomes of the visual localization research in a peer-reviewed conference.
  • Investigated combinatorial approaches to hierarchical visual localization, broadening the scope of research and uncovering potential advancements in the domain.
2018

Research Intern

Robert Bosch GmbH, Renningen, Germany

  • Organized and delivered a tutorial on AUTOSAR for the research team, initiated communication with the director.
  • Pioneered the development of a diagnosis system using an extended Kalman filter for an autonomous electric vehicle prototype’s electric propulsion system.
  • Explored the integration of modern AI methods into self-driving cars for diagnostic purposes.

Education

2024

PhD in Computer Science

Faculty of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

  • Structural Inference for Dynamical Systems
  • Network Science
  • Graph Theory
  • Supervised by Prof. Jun Pang
2019

Master of Science (MSc)

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

  • Cognitive Systems
  • Autonomous Driving
2015

Bachelor of Engineering (BEng)

Tongji University, China

  • Mechanics and Dynamics
  • Vehicle Engineering
  • Graduated with Honors

Projects

2025 - Present

Multimodal Models and Scientific Reasoning

  • Research on scientific multimodal foundation models and native structural reasoning across scientific domains.
  • Visual-to-symbolic discovery of physical laws with VIPER-R1.
  • Physics reasoning evaluation with PhysUniBench and scientific instruction following with SciIF.
2020 - Present

Structural Inference (AI4Science)

  • Structural inference of dynamical systems from observational trajectories.
  • Methods that handle irregular sampling, incomplete observations, and partial prior knowledge.
  • Developed StructInfer, an open benchmark for evaluating structural inference methods across disciplines.
  • Research includes SICSM, SGSI, and generative flow network approaches to structural inference.
2024 - Present

AI4EDU

  • Developed models for recommendation systems using spatio-temporal graphs, enhancing them with integrated database solutions.
  • Innovated techniques for addressing missing data issues by leveraging spatio-temporal similarities.
  • Launched the LLM4EDUKG benchmark, assessing the reasoning capabilities of pre-trained large language models on domain-specific knowledge graphs.

Academic Services

Conference Reviewer - ICML2022, SPIGM@ICML2023, NeurIPS2023, ICLR2024, ICML2024, IJCAI2024, AI4Science@ICML2024, ML4LMS@ICML2024, NeurIPS2024, NeurIPS2024 D&B Track

Honors and Awards

2023
  • ICML2023 Student Travel Grant
2022
  • NeurIPS2022 Student Travel Grant
2015
  • Bachelor Graduation with Honors
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