Kangrui Wang

PhD student, CS, Northwestern University

Joined

September 2021

Names

Kangrui Wang (Preferred)

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****@uchicago.edu (Confirmed)

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****@northwestern.edu (Confirmed)

****@cs.stanford.edu (Confirmed)

****@ttic.edu (Confirmed)

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Career & Education History

PhD student

CS, Northwestern University (northwestern.edu)

2024 – 2028

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

Coauthor

Quanshi Zhang

Present

Coauthor

Hongyuan Mei

Present

PhD Advisor

Manling Li

Present

Expertise

deep learning

2020 – Present

Publications

SkillCraft: Can LLM Agents Learn to Use Tools Skillfully?
Shiqi Chen, Jingze Gai, Ruochen Zhou, Jinghan Zhang, Tongyao Zhu, Junlong Li, Kangrui Wang, Zihan Wang, Zhengyu Chen, Klara Kaleb, Ning Miao, Siyang Gao, Cong Lu, Manling Li, Junxian He, Yee Whye Teh
- MSLD 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Internalizing World Models via Self-Play Finetuning for Agentic RL
Shiqi Chen, Tongyao Zhu, Zian Wang, Jinghan Zhang, Kangrui Wang, Siyang Gao, Teng Xiao, Yee Whye Teh, Junxian He, Manling Li
- MSLD 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
VAGEN: Reinforcing World Model Reasoning for Multi-Turn VLM Agents
Kangrui Wang, Pingyue Zhang, Zihan Wang, Yaning Gao, Linjie Li, Qineng Wang, Hanyang Chen, Chi Wan, Yiping Lu, Zhengyuan Yang, Lijuan Wang, Ranjay Krishna, Jiajun Wu, Li Fei-Fei, Yejin Choi, Manling Li
- MSLD 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Understanding Reasoning Collapse in LLM Agent Reinforcement Learning
Zihan Wang, Chi Gui, Xing Jin, Qineng Wang, Licheng Liu, Kangrui Wang, Shiqi Chen, Linjie Li, Zhengyuan Yang, Pingyue Zhang, Yiping Lu, Jiajun Wu, Li Fei-Fei, Lijuan Wang, Yejin Choi, Manling Li
- MSLD 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Understanding Reasoning Collapse in Multi-Turn Agent Reinforcement Learning
Zihan Wang, Chi Gui, Xing Jin, Qineng Wang, Licheng Liu, Kangrui Wang, Shiqi Chen, Linjie Li, Zhengyuan Yang, Pingyue Zhang, Yiping Lu, Jiajun Wu, Li Fei-Fei, Lijuan Wang, Yejin Choi, Manling Li
- ICLR 2026 AIWILD
- Readers: Everyone
RAGEN: Understanding Self-Evolution in LLM Agents via Multi-Turn Reinforcement Learning
Zihan Wang, Kangrui Wang, Qineng Wang, Pingyue Zhang, Linjie Li, Zhengyuan Yang, Xing Jin, Jiajun Wu, Lijuan Wang, Yejin Choi, Manling Li
- OpenReview Archive Direct Upload
- Readers: Everyone
Understanding Reasoning Collapse in Multi-Turn Agent Reinforcement Learning
Zihan Wang, Chi Gui, Xing Jin, Qineng Wang, Licheng Liu, Kangrui Wang, Shiqi Chen, Linjie Li, Zhengyuan Yang, Pingyue Zhang, Yiping Lu, Jiajun Wu, Li Fei-Fei, Lijuan Wang, Yejin Choi, Manling Li
- LLA 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Understanding Reasoning Collapse in Multi-Turn Agent Reinforcement Learning
Zihan Wang, Chi Gui, Xing Jin, Qineng Wang, Licheng Liu, Kangrui Wang, Shiqi Chen, Linjie Li, Zhengyuan Yang, Pingyue Zhang, Yiping Lu, Jiajun Wu, Li Fei-Fei, Lijuan Wang, Yejin Choi, Manling Li
- CAO Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Understanding Reasoning Collapse in Multi-Turn Agent Reinforcement Learning
Zihan Wang, Chi Gui, Xing Jin, Qineng Wang, Licheng Liu, Kangrui Wang, Shiqi Chen, Linjie Li, Zhengyuan Yang, Pingyue Zhang, Yiping Lu, Jiajun Wu, Li Fei-Fei, Lijuan Wang, Yejin Choi, Manling Li
- Agentic AI in the Wild: From Hallucinations to Reliable Autonomy Poster
- Readers: Everyone
ActionEQA: Action Interface for Embodied Question Answering
Tianwei Bao, Qineng Wang, Kangrui Wang, Mingkai Deng, Guangyi Liu, Jiayuan Mao, Lawrence Birnbaum, Zhiting Hu, Eric P. Xing, Zhaoran Wang, Manling Li
- Accepted by TMLR
- Readers: Everyone

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