I am a 4th-year Ph.D. candidate at Emory University advised by Dr. Kai Shu. I obtained my M.S. degree in computer science from University of Oregon in 2021 (advised by Dr. Thien Nguyen), and my B.S. degree in computer science from Purdue University in 2019 (working with Dr. Yung-Hsiang Lu). Previously, I worked as an applied scientist intern at Amazon AGI, Summer 2025.
💡 Research Interests
My research involves building trustworthy AI systems, with a specific emphasis on enhancing both robustness and interpretability. I am broadly interested in fundamental research and interdisciplinary collaborations motivated by important applications, including detecting misinformation and analyzing social network.
🔥 News
- 2025.08:  🎉🎉 Completed my internship as an Applied Scientist at Amazon AGI!
- 2025.07:  🎉🎉 Invited to serve as Program Committee member for AAAI 2026.
- 2025.05:  🎉🎉 Excited to join Amazon AGI as an Applied Scientist Intern for Summer 2025 in Bellevue, WA.
- 2025.05:  🎉🎉 Invited to serve as Area Chair for the NeurIPS Position Track.
- 2025.02:  🎉🎉 Research Access Program has been awarded. Thanks OpenAI!
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- 2025.01: Fin-Fact has been accepted by WWW 2025. Congratulations Aman!
- 2024.12: Invited as PC for ICML 2025 Position Track.
- 2024.11: MMCV has been accepted by COLING 2025.
- 2024.08: Our Fin-Fact dataset has been used for shared task for FinNLP@COLING2025
- 2024.07: TA2 has been accepted by CIKM 2024.
- 2024.05: TrustLLM has been accepted by ICML 2024. Congratulations Yue!
- 2024.02: Passed Ph.D. Qualifying Exam.
- 2023.10: FOLK has been accepted by EMNLP 2023.
- 2023.02: MARL has been accepted by WWW 2023.
📜 Selected Publications
Piecing It All Together: Verifying Multi-Hop Multimodal Claims
Haoran Wang, Aman Rangapur, Xiongxiao Xu, Yueqing Liang, Haroon Gharwi, Carl Yang, Kai Shu
Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics
Haoran Wang, Kai Shu
Proceedings of the 33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management
TrustLLM: Trustworthiness in Large Language Models
Yue Huang*, Lichao Sun*, Haoran Wang*, Siyuan Wu*, Qihui Zhang*, Chujie Gao*, Yixin Huang*, Wenhan Lyu*, Yixuan Zhang*, Xiner Li*, Zhengliang Liu*, Yixin Liu*, Yijue Wang*, Zhikun Zhang*, Bhavya Kailkhura, Caiming Xiong, et al. (*: major contribution).
Proceedings of the Forty-first International Conference on Machine Learning
Explainable Claim Verification via Knowledge-Grounded Reasoning with Large Language Models
Haoran Wang, Kai Shu
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023
Attacking Fake News Detectors via Manipulating News Social Engagement
Haoran Wang, Yingtong Dou, Canyu Chen, Lichao Sun, Philip S. Yu, Kai Shu
Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2023
🔬 Research Experience
Emory University, Jan, 2025 – Present
Research Assistant
Amazon AGI, May, 2025 – Aug, 2025
Applied Scientist Intern
Illinois Institute of Technology, Aug, 2022 – Jan, 2025
Research Assistant
Purdue University, Aug, 2018 – May, 2019
Research Assistant
Education
- 2022 - Now, Ph.D., Computer Science. Emory University.
- 2021, M.S., Computer Science. University of Oregon.
- 2019, B.S., Computer Science. Purdue University.
Academic Service
- Area Chair: NeurIPS 2025 Position Track
- Session Chair: CIKM 2024
- Reviewer/Program Committee: KDD{2024, 2025}, AAAI{2024, 2025, 2026}, PAKDD{2025, 2026}, NeurIPS {2025}, ICML {2025}, ACML {2025}
- Volunteer: ACM FAccT 2023
Last updated on Aug 16, 2025.
