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Fan Wang

AI Senior Engineer & Research Scientist
  • +86 18676703540
  • fanwang.px@gmail.com
  • github.com/WorldEditors

About Me

Experienced AI Research Scientist with expertise in foundation models, autonomous driving, natural language processing, and reinforcement learning.

Proven track record of leading research teams and developing cutting-edge AI technologies with significant commercial impact.

I am currently interested in developing foundation models that enable lifelong learning agents.


Work Experience

2024 - Present
Shenzhen Institute of AI and Robotics for Society (AIRS)

Research Scientist - Multimodal and Embodied Foundation Models

  • Proposed next-generation in-context learning and self-evolving foundation decision models and world models
  • Small-scale model validation for cross-scenario navigation, cross-embodiment motion control, etc.
  • Main results available at: OmniRL Project Page
2024 (Jan-Aug)
Baidu NLP Department

ERNIE Bot Post-training (T10)

  • Proposed and deployed multi-objective Pareto optimization DPO solution, significantly improving 10-billion-scale model performance
  • Explored autonomous evolution mechanism integrating model generation and evaluation, achieving breakthroughs in multi-round DPO performance
  • Explored multimodal and embodied data synthesis directions such as autonomous driving
2022-2023
Baidu Inc. - DARPA Virtual Project

Lead of Autonomous Driving 2.0 Foundation Model Team (T10)

  • Assisted the Group Technology Strategy Committee in developing next-generation autonomous driving technology plans
  • Proposed end-to-end autonomous driving models integrating world models and decision models
  • Real-vehicle deployment testing, achieved 98% success rate at Haidian test track with random disturbances
2018-2022
Baidu NLP Department - Deep Learning

Technical Lead (T8-T9)

  • General Dialogue Group: Led release of PLATO, China's first commercial generative dialogue foundation model
  • Established AI bio-computing direction, open-sourced PaddleHelix platform, published in Nature sub-journals
  • Led reinforcement learning direction, open-sourced PARL framework, won NeurIPS competitions 3 times
  • Collaborated with Baidu Maps, improved ETA accuracy with graph models

Tech Stack

  • Deep Learning
  • Reinforcement Learning
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Meta-Learning
  • Python & Torch
  • C++

Soft Skills

  • Leadership
  • Project Management
  • Engineering
  • Frontier Research
  • Public Speaking

Key Achievements

Publications & Patents

40+ published papers
80+ authorized patents

Awards

2018 Baidu Pride Best Individual Award
2018 Baidu Highest Awards (Team)
2020 Baidu Pride Best Individual Award
2020 Baidu Highest Awards (Team)
2018-2020 Three consecutive championships at NeurIPS 2018 Learning To Run reinforcement learning competition
2020-2021 DSTC-9/DSTC-10 Intelligent Dialogue Challenge championships
2022 CAICT Excellent Large Model Application Case (Team)
2022 Shenzhen Excellent Science and Technology Paper Achievement Award (Team)
2023 WU Wenjun AI Science and Technology Progress Award
2025 World IoT Expo Industry Pioneer Award (Team)

Open Source

2020-2022: PARL
2020-2022: PaddleRobotics
2020-2022: PaddleHelix
2021-2022: MetaGym
2025-Present: AirSoul
2025-Present: Xenoverse

Education

  • Doctor of Electronic Information Engineering
    University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)
    2021 - 2025
  • M.S. Mechanical Engineering
    University of Colorado at Boulder
    2008 - 2010
  • B.S. Applied Physics
    University of Science and Technology of China
    2004 - 2008

Languages

  • Chinese (Native)
  • English (Fluent)
  • Japanese (JPLT-4)

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