Haoxiong Wang (王浩雄)

Undergraduate Student in Computer Science
Zhejiang University

Hi! I am an undergraduate student in the Chu Kochen Honors College at Zhejiang University, majoring in Computer Science and Technology.

I will join the College of Computer Science and Technology at Zhejiang University as a Ph.D. student in Fall 2027, advised by Prof. Huajun Chen and Prof. Ningyu Zhang in ZJUNLP.

My research interests lie in LLM interpretability, agentic LLMs, and automated scientific research. I am particularly interested in understanding the internal mechanisms of large models and building AI agents that can reliably assist scientific discovery.

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Haoxiong Wang

News

Oct. 2026I will present our work Mechanist: AI as a Scientific Instrument for Discovering the Mechanisms of Intelligence at CCL 2026, held from October 15–18 in Yichang, Hubei. See you there!
Sep. 2026Our work Mechanist: AI as a Scientific Instrument for Discovering the Mechanisms of Intelligence was featured by 机器之心. [Media Coverage]
Jul. 2026I shared my undergraduate course notes on Computer Architecture, Database Systems, Compiler Principle, and more on my personal note website. Hope you find them helpful! [Link]

Publications

* Equal contribution † Corresponding authors

Overview of the Mechanist framework: user input, a four-stage hypothesis-experiment-verification-iteration loop, and mechanism output

Mechanist: AI as a Scientific Instrument for Discovering the Mechanisms of Intelligence

Mengru Wang*, Junfeng Fang*, Shuofei Qiao*, Zhenqian Xu, Haoming Xu, Haoxiong Wang, Shumin Deng, Linyi Yang, Zhixiang Cui, Xin Xu, Yunzhi Yao, Buqiang Xu, Fei Shen, Haozhe Luo, Yunxiang Wei, Ningyu Zhang†, Julian McAuley, Tat Seng Chua, Huajun Chen†

arXiv, 2026

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TL;DR: An autonomous research system that uses AI as an instrument to discover and validate mechanisms of intelligence.