Jianhao RUAN

Research Engineer, MetaGPT

jruan189@connect.hkust-gz.edu.cn - HKUST (GZ) - CV

Jianhao RUAN

HKUST(GZ), Guangzhou

About ME

Hi!👋 My name is Jianhao Ruan(é˜ŪåŧščąŠ). I am an undergraduate in DSA Thrust at HKUST (GZ). From May to Nov 2025, I interned at the DSAIL Lab under Prof.Lijia, focusing on LLMs and graph algorithms. Since Sep 2025, I have been a Research Engineer intern with the MetaGPT team, supervised by Research Scientist Jiayi Zhang, co-supervised by Prof. Luo Yuyu and Prof. Bang Liu, working on multi-agent systems and reinforcement learning.

I am an exchange student at UCLA from Jan to May 2026.

I am actively looking for 2027 fall PhD positions and industry internship collaborations. Feel free to email me if you are interested.

My research interests include multi-agent systems (MAS), agentic LLM architectures, learning and memory systems, and reinforcement learning and reward design.

news

2026.02

Our paper AOrchestra won Hugging Face Daily Paper: #2 paper of the day! 🎉🎉🎉

2026.01

One paper accepted to ICLR 2026! Let's meet in Rio de Janeiro!

2025.07

Led team project to National Finals (Top 1.5%~) in National Undergraduate Electronics Design Contest.

2025.06

Join the X program of HKUST(GZ) with Prof. Jiali about Reasoning LLMs.

2025.05

Appointed as Senate Member of HKUST(GZ).

2024.10

Achieved Gold Medal and Nomination Prize for Best New Basic Part at iGEM 2024 as Team Leader.

2023.10

Started serving as Community Leader at Residential College of HKUST(GZ).

selected publications

ICLR 2026 Exposing Weaknesses of Large Reasoning Models

Exposing Weaknesses of Large Reasoning Models through Graph Algorithm Problems

Qifan Zhang*, Jianhao Ruan*, Aochuan Chen, Kang Zeng, Nuo Chen, Jing Tang, Jia Li

ICLR 2026

  • Proposed a benchmark to rigorously evaluate the reasoning robustness of large reasoning models (LRMs) through graph algorithmic problems.
  • Co-led experimental design and comparative analysis to identify systematic weaknesses in multi-step reasoning performance.
ArXiv AOrchestra

AOrchestra: Automating Sub-Agent Creation for Agentic Orchestration

Jianhao Ruan, Zhihao Xu, Yiran Peng, Fashen Ren, Zhaoyang Yu, Xinbing Liang, Jinyu Xiang, Bang Liu, Chenglin Wu, Yuyu Luo, Jiayi Zhang

ArXiv, 2026

  • Proposed a unified, framework-agnostic agent abstraction that models any agent as a tuple (Model, Task, Tools, Context) for compositional capability design.
  • Built AOrchestra, an agentic system achieving 16.28% relative improvement against the strongest baseline across GAIA, SWE-Bench, and Terminal-Bench.
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AutoWebWorld: Synthesizing Infinite Verifiable Web Environments via Finite State Machines

Yifan Wu, Yiran Peng, Yiyu Chen, Jianhao Ruan, Zijie Zhuang, Cheng Yang, Jiayi Zhang, Man Chen, Yenchi Tseng, Zhaoyang Yu, Liang Chen, Yuyao Zhai, Bang Liu, Chenglin Wu, Yuyu Luo

Under review

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AutoEnv: Automated Environments for Measuring Cross-Environment Agent Learning

Jiayi Zhang, Yiran Peng, Fanqi Kong, Cheng Yang, Yifan Wu, Zhaoyang Yu, Jinyu Xiang, Jianhao Ruan, Jinlin Wang, Maojia Song, HongZhang Liu, Xiangru Tang, Bang Liu, Chenglin Wu, Yuyu Luo

In ArXiv, 2025

* Equal contribution.

Honors and Awards

  • 2025.05: Third Prize, 18th "Challenge Cup" Guangdong Provincial Competition
  • 2024.10: Gold Medal and Nomination Prize for Best New Basic Part, International Genetically Engineered Machine Competition (iGEM) - Team Leader
  • 2024.04: Second Prize, RoboMaster 2024 University League (Guangdong Provincial), 3v3 Match
  • 2023.09: Freshman Scholarship, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)
  • 2023.06: Outstanding Graduate Award, Shenzhen Senior High School (Group) - Awarded to the top 10% of the graduating class for overall excellence throughout three years of high school.

Education

  • 2023.09 - 2027.06 (Expected): BSc in HKUST(GZ), The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)
  • 2020.09 - 2023.06: High School, Shenzhen Senior High School
  • 2017.09 - 2020.06: Middle School, Shenzhen Senior High School

Skills

Programming Languages: Python (PyTorch, scikit-learn, pandas, numpy, matplotlib), C++

Technical Tools: Bash, Git, Vim, LaTeX, Markdown

Languages: English (fluent), Chinese (native)

leadership & service

  • 2025.07 - Present: Senate Member, The Senate of HKUST(GZ)
  • 2023.10 - 2024.06: Community Leader, Residential College of HKUST(GZ)

Extracurricular Activities

  • 2024.09 - Present: Member, Student Press Squad, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)
  • 2023.09 - Present: Photographer & Team Member, Photography Society, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)
  • 2023 - Present: Member, Varsity Basketball Team, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)
  • 2020 - 2023: Member, Shenzhen Senior High School Zicheng Men's Choir

Hobbies: Reading, Traveling, Photography, Music

Contact

Best way to reach me: Email for research, GitHub for code, Rednote for life.