Wei FAN
Welcome! I’m a Ph.D. student supervised by Prof.Yangqiu Song in Computer Science and Engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). Currently, I am a research intern at applied scientist intern at Amazon Stores Foundational AI, working with Dr. Wenlin Yao and Dr. Zheng Li. Prior to that, I obtained my M.Sc. degree in Big Data Technology from HKUST, and my B.Eng. degree in Computer Science from Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST).
🚀 I am looking for internships related to reinforcement learning and LLM-based agents starting from 2026 Spring. Feel free to reach out if you have any opportunities!
News
- Sep 2025: One survey paper on entity and event conceptualization is accepted by EMNLP 2025.
- Jul 2025: I am serving as an Area Chair for the ACL Rolling Review (July 2025).
- Jun 2025: I start my internship at Amazon Stores Foundational AI as an Applied Scientist Intern.
- Jan 2025: One paper about privacy checklist is accepted by NAACL 2025.
- Nov 2024: First-authored paper on legal grounding in privacy domain has been awarded the outstanding paper 🏆 at EMNLP 2024!
- Sep 2024: Three papers are accepted by EMNLP 2024. Topics cover legal alignment, theory of mind, and text-to-table summarization. See you in Miami!
- May 2024: Two papers are accepted by ACL 2024. Topics cover abstract knowledge and differential privacy. See you in Thailand!
- Mar 2024: One paper is accepted by DASFAA 2024. Topics cover hierarchical reinforcement learning and conversational recommendation. Welcome to my oral presentation in Gifu, Japan.
- Aug 2023: Attending IJCAI 2023 at Macao as a student volunteer.
Research Interest
Currently, I focus on:
- Deep Research Agents: DeepPlanner
- Legal Reasoning: Legal Rule Induction, GoldCoin, Privacy Checklist
Education
- Doctor of Philosophy · HKUST · Computer Science · Sep.2023-Now
- Master of Science · HKUST · Big Data Technology · Sep.2022-Jul.2023
- Bachelor of Engineering · HUST · Computer Science · Sep.2017-Jun.2021
- Visiting Student · UoM · Computer Science · Jul.2019-Aug.2019
Internship
Amazon Rufus LLM, Amazon Inc., Palo Alto, CA, USA
- Applied Scientist Intern, Jun.2025-Oct.2025
Artificial Intelligence Thrust, HKUST, Guangzhou, China
- Research Intern, Jun.2022-Aug.2022
Academic Service
- Area Chair: ACL Rolling Review (2025 July - Now)
- Conference Reviewer: ACL Rolling Review (2023 - Now)
- Conference Volunteer: IJCAI (2023)
Teaching
- COMP 4222: Machine Learning with Structured Data (Fall 2024)
- MSBD 5018: Natural Language Processing (Fall 2024)
- COMP 1021: Introduction to Computer Science (Spring 2024)
- CSIT 6000R: Natural Language Processing (Spring 2024, Spring 2025)
Awards
- HKUST RedBird Academic Excellence Award for Continuing PhD Students (2024-2025)
- EMNLP 2024 Outstanding Paper Award
- HKUST Postgraduate Studentship (2023-2027)
- ByteDance Outstanding Individual Award (2021)
Contact
You can reach me at wfanag [at] connect [dot] ust [dot] hk.