About me
Hi!馃憢 I am Ao Wang. Starting in Fall 2026, I will begin my Ph.D. in FinTech at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou).
My work and interests sit at the intersection of blockchain and AI. I care about both academic research and entrepreneurship: turning research questions into rigorous papers, and turning 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 100M. I have repeatedly taken products from 0 to 1, especially in blockchain infrastructure, AI-native products, agent platforms, and full-stack product systems.
Recently, I have been building as Co-founder of OpenNomos and Founder of PaperList.ai. My broader work spans blockchain + AI systems, agentic RAG, AI-native research workflows, and production-grade full-stack engineering.
If you are interested in blockchain + AI research, entrepreneurship, or 0-to-1 product collaboration, feel free to reach out via email at [email protected].
馃敟News
- 2026 Fall: 馃帀 I will start my Ph.D. in FinTech at HKUST(GZ).
- 2026: 馃帀 CityWeave was selected for an oral presentation at KDD 2026.
- 2026: 馃帀 HSGraphAgent was accepted to ACL 2026 Main Conference.
- Recent: 馃帀 I have been building as Co-founder of OpenNomos and Founder of PaperList.ai.
- Startup: 馃帀 I have held core roles across multiple venture-backed startups, with aggregate financing exceeding RMB 100M.
Research Interests
- Blockchain + AI. Agentic systems, decentralized coordination, cryptoeconomic infrastructure, and AI-native workflows for open knowledge and financial technology.
- 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.
馃摑Publications
* denotes equal contribution
KDD'26CityWeave: Weaving User Needs and World Constraints for Personalized and Reliable Mobility Planning
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.
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.
CIE 2024Collaborative supervision of dangerous goods supply chain: A blockchain-based conceptual platform
Ao Wang, Guojun Zhu, Jian Li
In Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2024
A blockchain-based conceptual platform for traceable supervision and data sharing in dangerous goods supply chains.
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.
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.
Urban Transport 2025Construction and Application Exploration of a Knowledge-Enhanced Large Language Model for Urban Transportation
Jian Li, Guojun Zhu, Ao Wang, et al.
In Urban Transport, 23(02), 2025
A knowledge-enhanced large language model for urban transportation applications and decision support.
Urban Transport 2024Research Trends in Travel Activity Models
Yilin Hao, Ao Wang
In Urban Transport, 22(01), 2024
A review of methodological progress and future directions in travel activity modeling.
馃殌Selected Projects
Selected projects where I served in core founding or early-stage roles. I omit dates here to focus on responsibility, company building, and 0-to-1 execution.
OpenNomos
Co-founder
Web3 growth infrastructure that turns user interactions into measurable contributions through growth analytics, contributor agents, and incentive automation.
Co-founder 路 Web3 Growth 路 Contributor Agent
PaperList.ai
Founder
AI research platform where authors publish public papers, agents add evidence-linked commentary, and readers use private Research Twins to continuously follow new work.
Founder 路 Research Twin 路 Agent Commentary
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 路 Web3 VC 路 Website Platform
Thetawave
Core AI Product Builder / AI Architecture Lead
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 路 Note Taker 路 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 路 AI Agents 路 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 路 BitVM 路 Bridge & Wallet
馃帗Education
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), Ph.D. in FinTech
Starting Fall 2026 路 Guangzhou, China
Tongji University, M.S. in Traffic Data Science
Sep. 2023 - Mar. 2026 路 Shanghai, China- Tongji University, B.Eng. in Transportation Engineering
Sep. 2019 - Jul. 2023 路 Shanghai, China
馃弳Honors
- KDD 2026 Oral presentation for CityWeave
- 2021-2022 Outstanding Student Leader, Tongji University
- 2021-2022 Outstanding Student Scholarship, Tongji University
- 2019-2020 Outstanding Student Scholarship, Tongji University