Dequan Wang / 王德泉

Associate Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Full-time Mentor at Shanghai Innovation Institute

Bio

I am Dequan Wang (王德泉), an associate professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and a full-time mentor at Shanghai Innovation Institute.

My research focuses on agentic harnesses for scientific swarms: systems that learn how to discover, test, compress, and carry forward their own experience.

First in code, then in science, I study how persistent interaction, grounded feedback, shared budgets, and verification loops turn capable models into disciplined discovery systems.

I completed my Ph.D. at University of California, Berkeley, advised by Prof. Trevor Darrell, and earned my B.S. from Fudan University.

Positions

Associate Professor

Shanghai Jiao Tong University

2026 - Present

Full-time Mentor

Shanghai Innovation Institute

2025 - Present

Research Scientist

Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

2023 - 2024

Assistant Professor

Shanghai Jiao Tong University

2023 - 2025

Education

University of California, Berkeley

Ph.D. in Computer Science

Advised by Prof. Trevor Darrell.

2016 - 2022

Fudan University

B.S. in Computer Science

2012 - 2016
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