Kun Wang 王堃

CS PhD Student @ Princeton University

Hello! I am a second-year CS Ph.D. student at Princeton University, advised by Prof. Olga Russakovsky. During my undergraduate studies at UC San Diego, I was fortunate to be advised by Prof. Rose Yu and Prof. Yian Ma on spatio-temporal causal discovery, and Prof. Manmohan Chandraker on 3D scene generation with Large Language Models.

I'm generally interested in visual agents and accelerating vision research, currently working on robotics agents and world models.

Curriculum Vitae
Education
Princeton University Princeton University · Ph.D. in Computer Science · Sep. 2025 - Present UC San Diego UC San Diego · B.S. in Mathematics & Computer Science · Sep. 2021 - Jun. 2025
Research
In-Context Learning Can Help Vision-Language Models Overcome Training Priors

Kun Wang, Xindi Wu, Sanghyuk Chun, Olga Russakovsky, Esin Tureci

NeurIPS 2026

Discovering Latent Causal Graphs from Spatio-Temporal Data

Kun Wang*, Sumanth Varambally*, Duncan Watson-Parris, Yian Ma, Rose Yu

ICML 2025 · Oral at NeurIPS 2024 CRL Workshop

MLS-Bench: A Holistic and Rigorous Assessment of AI Systems on Building Better AI

Bohan Lyu, Yucheng Yang, Siqiao Huang, Jiaru Zhang, Qixin Xu, Xinghan Li, Xinyang Han, Yicheng Zhang, Huaqing Zhang, Runhan Huang, Kaicheng Yang, Zitao Chen, Wentao Guo, Junlin Yang, Xinyue Ai, Wenhao Chai, Yadi Cao, Ziran Yang, Kun Wang, Dapeng Jiang, Huan-ang Gao, Shange Tang, Chengshuai Shi, Simon S. Du, Max Simchowitz, Jiantao Jiao, Dawn Song, Chi Jin

NeurIPS 2026 Datasets & Benchmarks Track (Oral)

InteriorAgent: LLM Agent for Interior Design-Aware 3D Layout Generation

Kunal Gupta, Ishit Mehta, Kun Wang, Nicholas Chua, Yan Deng, Abhimanyu Krishna, Ravi Ramamoorthi, Manmohan Chandraker

3DV 2026

* denotes equal contribution

Experience
Amazon · Software Development Engineer Intern, AI
Summer 2025 · Automating AI Coding Agent
China Asset Management · Machine Learning Intern
Summer 2024 · Financial forecasting
Service
Reviewer
  • SIGGRAPH Asia
  • ICML
  • NeurIPS
Teaching
  • CSE 152A Intro to Computer Vision (TA), UC San Diego, 2023
  • Linear Algebra & Differential Equations (Instructional Assistant), UC San Diego, 2022–2023
Outreach
  • O-STEM: Queer in AI, Volunteer Organizer, 2024