Hi, I'm Fang WU!

portraitWelcome to my personal web page! I am a Ph.D. student at Stanford Computer Science, advised by Yejin Choi and Jure Leskovec. I have great fortune to work with James Zou and Brian Trippe during the first-year rotation. Previously, I was a research engineer at Tsinghua University advised by Jinbo Xu. I obtained my Master's degree at Columbia University, advised by Dragomir Radev. It is a profound loss for me to lose Prof. Radev on March 29, 2023 (in memoriam). My present research focuses on LLMs, agent systems, and AI4Science.

           
Email: fangwu97 [at] stanford [dot] edu
Address: Stanford, CA, USA
Last update time: 2024.06

News and Highlights

   [2025/05] One papers is accepted by KDD 2025.
   [2025/05] Two papers are accepted by ACL 2025.
   [2025/04] One collaborated paper is accepted by ICML 2025. Congrats to Arthor Deng!
   [2025/02] One paper on mutant effect prediction is accepted by TMLR.
   [2024/12] One paper on dynamic surface modeling is accepted by AAAI 2025.

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Research Summary

* represents equal contribution and co-first authorship. † denotes the corresponding author(s).

   The Invisible Leash: Why RLVR May Not Escape Its Origin.
   Fang Wu*, Weihao Xuan*, Ximing Lu, Zaid Harchaoui, Yejin Choi
   ICML 2025 AI4MATH Workshop
   [Paper]

   Large Language Models are Good Relational Learners. GitHub stars
   Fang Wu, Vijay Prakash Dwivedi, Jure Leskovec
   ACL 2025
   [Paper]    [Code]

   LocAgent: Graph-Guided LLM Agents for Code Localization. GitHub stars
   Zhaoling Chen*, Xiangru Tang*, Gangda Deng*, Fang Wu, Jialong Wu, Zhiwei Jiang, Viktor Prasanna, Arman Cohan, Xingyao Wang
   ACL 2025
   [Paper]    [Code]

   When to Trust Context: Self-Reflective Debates for Context Reliability GitHub stars
   Zeqi Zhou*, Fang Wu*, Shayan Talaei*, Haokai Zhao, Cheng Meixin, Tinson Xu, Amin Saberi, Yejin Choi
   ACL 2025 KnowFM Workshop
   [Paper]    [Code]

   Retrieval-Reasoning Large Language Model-based Synthetic Clinical Trial Generation GitHub stars
   Zerui Xu, Fang Wu, Tianfan Fu, Yue Zhao
   KDD 2025 Agent4IR Workshop
   [Paper]    [Code]

Education

   Stanford University, 2024-now
   • Ph.D. in Computer Science

   Columbia University, 2019-2021
   • Master of Science
   • GPA: 3.51/4.0

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Industry Experience

   Research Scientist Intern (2025.06)
   • Bytedance Research
   • Led by Quanquan Gu

   Research Scientist (2023.06-2024.06)
   • BioMap
   • Led by Le Song

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Research Experience

Before joining Stanford University, I feel fortunate to be a research assistant/engineer advised by Jinbo Xu at Tsinghua University and Stan Z. Li at Westlake University, and recieved guidance as a visiting student from Huajun Chen, Xiang Bai and Danny Lan.

   Research Student (2024.09-2024.12)
   • Arc Institute
   • Advised by Brian Hie

   Research Engineer (2022.08-2023.05)
   • Tsinghua University
   • Advised by Jinbo Xu

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Professional Services

Reviewer: ICLR 2024-2025, NeurIPS 2023-2025, ICML 2025, CVPR 2025, ICCV 2025, KDD 2025, AISTATS 2025, AAAI 2026, IJCAI 2025, ML4H 2023-2024, TMLR, IEEE TNNLS

Teaching: CS224N (2024 Winter)

Acknowledgement

My study cannot be possible without the support from my awesome friends, mentors, and collaborators! Check out some of them:

Prof. Jure Leskovec, Prof. James Zou, Prof. Brian Trippe, Dr. Auther Deng at Stanford University.
Prof. Dragomir Radev, Dr. Xiangru Tang at Yale University. R.I.P. to Dr. Dragomir.

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Aside from university collaborations, I also collaborated with many industrial AIDD companies, including MindrankAI, MoleculeMind, and Biomap

Dr. Zhangming Niu, Dr. Xurui Jin, and Dr. Yinghui Jiang at MindrankAI.
Dr. Xiaoyang Jing, Dr. Tenglong Wang, Dr. Wuwei Tan at MoleculeMind.

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