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Haolun Wu
Google Scholar ID: -KcBDLcAAAAJ
Researcher at Mila, McGill, Stanford | Prev. intern at Google, DeepMind, MSR
Knowledge Representation
Information Retrieval
Human-centric AI
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haolun.wu@mail.mcgill.ca
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Beyond Message Passing: Toward Semantically Aligned Agent Communication
2026
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Training Diffusion Language Models for Black-Box Optimization
2026
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Give Users the Wheel: Towards Promptable Recommendation Paradigm
2026
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From Noise to Order: Learning to Rank via Denoising Diffusion
2026
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"I use ChatGPT to humanize my words": Affordances and Risks of ChatGPT to Autistic Users
2026
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Optimizing User Profiles via Contextual Bandits for Retrieval-Augmented LLM Personalization
2026
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LLM Use for Mental Health: Crowdsourcing Users' Sentiment-based Perspectives and Values from Social Discussions
2025
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Privis: Towards Content-Aware Secure Volumetric Video Delivery
2025
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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.
Co-authors
13 total
Chen Ma
Assistant Professor, City University of Hong Kong
Xue (Steve) Liu
Fellow CAE&IEEE; Associate VPR@MBZUAI; Prof@McGill; Mila; ex-VP R&D@Samsung AI; Chair ACM SIGBED;
Bhaskar Mitra
Independent Researcher
Fernando Diaz
Carnegie Mellon University
Ye Yuan
McGill University, Mila - Quebec AI Institute
Mark Coates
Professor of Electrical Engineering, McGill University
Xiaoshan Huang
McGill University
Laurent Charlin
Associate Professor, HEC Montréal & Mila, Canada CIFAR AI Chair
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