WANG Xinrun
Full-time Faculty
Assistant Professor of Computer Science; Lee Kong Chian Fellow
School of Computing and Information Systems
SCIS
Qualification
- PhD, Nanyang Technological University, 2020
Research Areas and Areas of Expertise
Strategic Priorities
HighlightsXinrun Wang is an emerging leader in game-theoretic deep learning, reinforcement learning, and decision-making models, with impactful contributions to AI for finance, security, and multi-agent systems.
Bridges theoretical advances in game theory and reinforcement learning with practical applications in finance, cybersecurity, and multi-agent systems; recognized for methodological innovation and real-world relevance; strong interdisciplinary collaborations; PI for foundational research grants in decision-making models.
Focused research areas include Development of advanced reinforcement learning and game-theoretic models for decision-making; integration of external knowledge into large language models; context-aware and memory-augmented RL for finance; pursuit-evasion and security games; explainable AI for complex environments.
Bridges theoretical advances in game theory and reinforcement learning with practical applications in finance, cybersecurity, and multi-agent systems; recognized for methodological innovation and real-world relevance; strong interdisciplinary collaborations; PI for foundational research grants in decision-making models.
Focused research areas include Development of advanced reinforcement learning and game-theoretic models for decision-making; integration of external knowledge into large language models; context-aware and memory-augmented RL for finance; pursuit-evasion and security games; explainable AI for complex environments.
Areas of Expertise
Reinforcement LearningDistributed Foundation AgentsComputer Science of Language Models
Past Awarded Grant
- Towards the Foundation Model for Decision Making, SMU Internal Grant, Ministry of Education (MOE) Tier 1, PI (Project Level): WANG Xinrun, 2024, S$119,772
Latest Publications
Showing up to 6 latest publications from the past 5 years.
- GDBA Revisited: Unleashing the Power of Guided Local Search for Distributed Constraint Optimization [2026]Y Deng, X Wang, B AnProceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 40 (35), 29385 …, 2026
- C Yang, C Zhou, Y Xiao, S Dong, L Zhuang, Y Zhang, Z Wang, Z Hong, ...arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.05665, 2026
- C Xu, C Xiao, Z Peng, X Wang, Y CaoarXiv preprint arXiv:2601.04809, 2026
- C Yang, X Wang, J Jiang, Q Zhang, X HuangTransactions on Machine Learning Research, 2026
- Nondeterministic Polynomial-time Problem Challenge: An Ever-Scaling Reasoning Benchmark for LLMs [2026]C Yang, R Wang, J Jiang, Q Jiang, Q Zhang, Y Deng, S Li, S Hu, B Li, ...Transactions on Machine Learning Research, 2026
- M Qin, X Cai, Y Li, H Xia, C Zong, S Sun, X Wang, B AnarXiv preprint arXiv:2512.23773, 2025
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Qualification
- PhD, Nanyang Technological University, 2020