Haolun Wu
Scholar

Haolun Wu

Google Scholar ID: -KcBDLcAAAAJ
Researcher at Mila, McGill, Stanford | Prev. intern at Google, DeepMind, MSR
Knowledge RepresentationInformation RetrievalHuman-centric AI
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
1,019
 
H-index
14
 
i10-index
15
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
13
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Recipient of McGill Graduate Excellence Award.
  • Awarded Borealis AI Fellowship.
  • FRQNT PhD Scholarship (ranked 1st place).
  • Multiple papers accepted at top venues: NeurIPS 2025 (Compound AI alignment), ICML 2025 (LLM adaptation), AIED 2025 (AI for collaborative learning in education), TMLR 2025 (offline model-based optimization), EMNLP 2024, CHI 2024, WWW 2025, SIGIR 2022, TKDE 2024, TOIS 2022/2023, CIKM 2022/2024, ICDE 2024, SIGIR ICTIR 2024, etc.
  • Invited to give a Rising Star talk at the International Symposium on Trustworthy Foundation Models (MBZUAI, May 2025).
Background
  • Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at McGill University and Mila - Quebec AI Institute.
  • Research focuses on learning from human feedback using ML techniques to build trustworthy, responsible AI systems aligned with human needs.
  • Work spans micro-level (e.g., personalization, data values) and macro-level (e.g., social goods, norms) aspects of human-AI alignment.
  • Passionate about interdisciplinary research, especially applying AI/ML to Education and Psychology.
  • Co-organizer of the OracleLLM community, exploring the use of LLMs as oracles for reliable, high-level insights.
  • Significant contributor to the Test-Time Scaling (TTS) survey on LLM adaptation at inference time.
  • Member of the organizing committee for NICE (NLP Academic Exchange Platform), fostering a bilingual (Mandarin/English) NLP research community.