The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)
Ph.D. in FinTech
Sep. 2026 - Present · Guangzhou, China
Welcome! I am Ao Wang (王奥), a FinTech Ph.D. student at HKUST(GZ) and an alumnus of Tongji University. I received my B.Eng. and M.S. from Tongji, and I am currently pursuing my Ph.D. in FinTech at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou).
From 2019 to 2024, my work focused on blockchain systems and Web3 infrastructure. Since 2024, my focus has shifted toward AI agents and production-grade software systems. I have worked as a core or founding member at several startups backed by leading global investors, including HSG, Hillhouse Investment, Polychain Capital, and Coinbase Ventures, with total funding of RMB 100,000,000+.
Recently I have also been building 
OpenNomos and 
PaperList.ai.
Education
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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
Research Interests
AI-assisted Finance. AI agents for financial research, decentralized trading, market monitoring, decision support, and workflow automation in FinTech systems.
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.
Research
02KDD'26CityWeave: Weaving User Needs and World Constraints for Personalized and Reliable Mobility Planning (Oral)
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
In ACL Main Conference, 2026 (CCF-A)
Knowledge-graph-guided LLMs for structured customs classification and decision support.
CIECollaborative supervision of dangerous goods supply chain: A blockchain-based conceptual platform
In Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2024 (SCI Q1)
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
In 103rd Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, 2024
A transportation safety platform design for collaborative supervision across dangerous goods supply-chain stakeholders.
In 105th Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, 2025
LLM-based mining of citizen hotline records to understand and improve public transportation service quality.
Work
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ABCDE
Project Owner
Official web platform for a Web3 investment firm — portfolio companies, research, hacker camps, and founder programs.
Bitlayer Lab
Core Engineering Lead
Bitcoin Layer 2 on BitVM — bridge flows, DApp access, multisig wallet, and Bitcoin/EVM interaction.
Pond
Core Early-stage Engineer / Principal Engineer
AI agents and Agent Universe — multi-chain data-analysis agents, on-chain signals, model services, and task marketplace.
Thetawave
Core AI Product Builder
AI note-taking and study platform for college students — lectures and files into structured notes, transcripts, quizzes, flashcards, mindmaps, and course-aware chat.
Build
04opennomos.com
Find more users, and be found by more — agents surface high-intent conversations on Reddit, X, and Xiaohongshu, while your project joins a contribution network.
Open Source
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QuantDinger ★ 12,233
Core Team Member
Academic research, financial theory validation, quantitative model optimization, and AI agent system logic for an open-source AI quantitative trading platform.
jev-trade ★ 158
Creator
Independently built the first open-source Jev project for multi-asset trading on Hyperliquid, integrating live market data, AI decisions, execution, and position/PnL monitoring.