Hi!👋 I am Ao Wang, a FinTech Ph.D. student at HKUST(GZ) and an alumnus of Tongji University. I received my B.Eng. and M.S. degrees from Tongji University, and I am currently pursuing my Ph.D. in FinTech at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou).

My earlier work, especially from 2019 to 2024, focused on blockchain systems and Web3 infrastructure. Since 2024, my focus has shifted toward AI and agent systems. Across both phases, I care about turning research questions into rigorous papers, and useful technical ideas into products and infrastructure.

On the entrepreneurship side, I have held core roles across multiple venture-backed startups, with aggregate financing exceeding RMB 100,000,000+. I have repeatedly taken products from 0 to 1, especially in AI-native products, agent platforms, and full-stack product systems.

Recently, I have also spent time building OpenNomos and PaperList.ai. My broader work spans AI agent systems, agentic RAG, AI-native research workflows, Web3 infrastructure, and production-grade full-stack engineering.

If you are interested in AI research, FinTech, entrepreneurship, or 0-to-1 product collaboration, feel free to reach out via email at [email protected].

• 2026: 🎉 CityWeave is available on ACM Digital Library and selected as an oral paper at KDD 2026.
• 2026: 🎉 HSGraphAgent was accepted to ACL 2026 Main Conference.
• 2024: 🎉 Our blockchain-based dangerous-goods supply-chain paper was published in Computers & Industrial Engineering.

• AI-assisted Finance. AI agents for financial research, decentralized trading, market monitoring, decision support, and workflow automation in FinTech systems.
• LLM Agents and Agentic RAG. Tool-calling, structured-output workflows, multi-turn search, memory-augmented reasoning, and reliability loops for production AI systems.
• Urban Mobility Intelligence. Personalized route planning, trajectory understanding, passenger complaint mining, and city-scale transportation knowledge modeling.
• Agent Systems & Evaluation Harnesses. Agent runtime architecture, tool-use orchestration, task planning, evaluation harnesses, trace/replay systems, monitoring, and reliability testing for production AI agents.

1. KDD'26CityWeave: Weaving User Needs and World Constraints for Personalized and Reliable Mobility Planning(Oral)

   Ao Wang, Zhiwen Chen, Shen Wang, Qiang Xia, Yi Zhou, Jian Li

   In ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 2026(CCF-A)

   A VLM-based framework for door-to-door urban mobility planning that combines user needs, temporal reasoning, map grounding, and routing constraints.

2. ACL'26HSGraphAgent: Knowledge-Graph-Guided Large Language Models for Harmonized System Code Classification

   Qiang Xia, Zijian Zhang, Ao Wang, Wenhan Wang, Xiangyu Wang, Jian Li

   In ACL Main Conference, 2026(CCF-A)

   Knowledge-graph-guided LLMs for structured customs classification and decision support.

3. CIE 2024Collaborative supervision of dangerous goods supply chain: A blockchain-based conceptual platform

   Ao Wang, Guojun Zhu, Jian Li

   In Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2024(SCI Q1)

   A blockchain-based conceptual platform for traceable supervision and data sharing in dangerous goods supply chains.

4. TRB 2024A Blockchain-based Supervision Platform for Dangerous Goods Supply Chain

   Ao Wang, Guojun Zhu, Jian Li

   In 103rd Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, 2024

   A transportation safety platform design for collaborative supervision across dangerous goods supply-chain stakeholders.

5. TRB 2025Leveraging Large Language Models for Better Understanding Bus Passenger Complaints Based on Citizen Hotline Data Mining

   Qiang Xia, Ao Wang, Jian Li

   In 105th Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, 2025

   LLM-based mining of citizen hotline records to understand and improve public transportation service quality.

Selected projects where I served in core founding or early-stage roles.

ABCDE

Project Owner

Official web platform for ABCDE, a Web3 investment firm presenting portfolio companies, research articles, hacker camps, and founder-facing programs.

Project Owner · Web3 VC · Website Platform

Thetawave

Core AI Product Builder

AI note-taking and study platform for college students, turning lectures, files, and videos into structured notes, transcripts, quizzes, flashcards, mindmaps, and course-aware chat.

AI Study Platform · Note Taker · Quizzes & Flashcards

Pond

Core Early-stage Engineer / Principal Engineer

AI task platform where users post needs and humans or AI agents compete to deliver outcomes across sales, feedback, recruiting, content creation, and other tasks.

Core Team · AI Agents · Task Marketplace

Bitlayer Lab

Core Engineering Lead

Bitcoin Layer 2 infrastructure based on the BitVM paradigm, covering bridge flows, DApp access, multisig wallet, developer tooling, and Bitcoin/EVM interaction flows.

Bitcoin L2 · BitVM · Bridge & Wallet

• 
  The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), Ph.D. in FinTech
  2026 - Present · Guangzhou, China
• 
  Tongji University, M.S. in Traffic Data Science
  Sep. 2023 - Mar. 2026 · Shanghai, China
• 
  Tongji University, B.Eng. in Transportation Engineering
  Sep. 2019 - Jul. 2023 · Shanghai, China

• 2021-2022 Outstanding Student Leader, Tongji University
• 2021-2022 Outstanding Student Scholarship, Tongji University
• 2019-2020 Outstanding Student Scholarship, Tongji University