I am a third-year Ph.D. candidate at Illinois Institute of Technology 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).
I am actively seeking industry research internship for Summer 2025.
💡 Research
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
- 2024.08: 🎉🎉 Our Fin-Fact dataset has been used for shared task for FinNLP@COLING2025.
- 2024.07: 🎉🎉 One paper has been accepted by CIKM 2024.
- 2024.05: 🎉🎉 One paper has been accepted by ICML 2024.
- 2024.02: 🎉🎉 Passed Ph.D. Qualifying Exam.
📝 Publications
Haoran Wang, Kai Shu
Proceedings of ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management 2024
TrustLLM: Trustworthiness in Large Language Models
Lichao Sun*, Yue Huang*, 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 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 ACM Web Conference 2023
📝 Preprints
- Piecing It All Together: Verifying Multi-Hop Multimodal Claims Haoran Wang, Aman Rangapur, Xiongxiao Xu, Yueqing Liang, Haroon Gharwi, Carl Yang, Kai Shu
- FIN-FACT: A Benchmark Dataset for Multimodal Financial Fact Checking and Explanation Generation Aman Rangapura, Haoran Wang, Ling Jian, Kai Shu
- Investigating Online Financial Misinformation and Its Consequences: A Computational Perspective Aman Rangapura, Haoran Wang, Kai Shu
- Combating Health Misinformation in Social Media: Characterization, Detection, Intervention, and Open Issues Canyu Chen*, Haoran Wang*, Matthew Shapiro, Yunyu Xiao, Fei Wang, Kai Shu (*: eqaul contribution)
📖 Educations
- 2022 - Now, Ph.D., Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology.
- 2021, M.S., Computer Science. University of Oregon.
- 2019, B.S., Computer Science. Purdue University.
Academic Service
- Session Chair: CIKM 2024
- Reviewer/Program Committee: KDD{2024, 2025}, AAAI{2024, 2025}, PAKDD{2025}
- Volunteer: ACM FAccT 2023
- External Reviewer: SIGIR{2023, 2024}, WWW{2023, 2024}, TKDE{2023}, NIPS{2023, 2024}, ACL{2023, 2024}, ICDM{2023, 2024}, IJCAI{2023, 2024}, PAKDD2024, SDM{2025}
Last updated on Nov 15, 2024.
