Scholar
Hongru (Merlin) WANG
Google Scholar ID: s6UtVYUAAAAJ
Postdoc@Edinburgh, Ph.D @CUHK, Prev. @UIUC @EdinburghNLP
Citations & Impact
Citations
1,246
H-index
20
i10-index
32
Publications
20
Co-authors
19
list available
Publications
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Papers accepted at NeurIPS 2025, EMNLP 2025, ACL 2025, and NAACL 2025; Preprints: 'Acting Less is Reasoning More! Teaching Model to Act Efficiently', 'Toward a Theory of Agents as Tool-Use Decision-Makers', etc.
Research Experience
- Currently a research associate at the University of Edinburgh, working closely with Prof. Amos Storkey and Prof. Jeff Z. Pan; Worked at EdinburghNLP and BlenderLab at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign during PhD; Closely collaborated with Prof. Jeff Z. Pan, Prof. Heng Ji, and Prof. Mengdi Wang.
Education
- PhD from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, supervised by Prof. Kam-Fai Wong
Background
- Research Interests: Theory of Agent (ToA), world model-based RL. Professional Field: Internal reasoning and external acting, modeling the internal knowledge state of an agent.
Miscellany
- Co-founder and organizer of NLP Academic Exchange Platform (NICE); Personal Interests: Feel free to directly add on WeChat; Future Plans: Will be on the job market starting in Mar 2026, open to both academic faculty positions and industrial research roles.
