Xinrun Wang

Xinrun Wang is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Lee Kong Chian Fellow at Singapore Management University's School of Computing and Information Systems. He joined SMU in July 2024 after completing his PhD at Nanyang Technological University in 2020.

His research focuses on fundamental decision making through single- and multi-agent reinforcement learning, decision making applications including RL for FinTech and MARL for urban security, and foundation agents for computer control and auto research. His work spans AI for Science, financial technology, and theoretical computer science with a particular emphasis on NP-hard problems.

Wang's recent publications demonstrate strong trends in foundation agents, reinforcement learning for complex decision making, and applications of AI to financial technology and scientific discovery. His research group has produced significant work on autonomous alloy discovery, financial workflow automation with LLMs, and solving NP problems through reasoning benchmarks.

• Outstanding Student Paper Award (GameSec 2019)
• Lee Kong Chian Fellow

Wang currently serves as Research Advisor to ZHOU Shunchao and is actively recruiting PhD and Master's students for research in decision making, foundation agents, and AI for Science. His research is supported through his Lee Kong Chian Fellowship and likely other grants given his extensive publication record. He leads a research group focused on developing frameworks for autonomous decision making and foundation agents.

His laboratory work centers on developing general-purpose AI agents capable of computer control, financial trading, and scientific discovery, with projects like Cradle, AgentStudio, and TradeMaster forming the core of his research infrastructure.