Hi, I’m Yaochen Wang.

Sincerely looking for PhD positions!

I am currently affiliated with MBZUAI. My research focuses on data-centric AI/ML and agentic AI, with recent work on multimodal evaluation, LLM agents, document RAG, and urban intelligence.

šŸ’” Research Interest

  • Data-centric AI/ML
  • Agentic AI

šŸ“ Publications

A-MemGuard: A Proactive Defense Framework for LLM-Based Agent Memory

Qianshan Wei*, Tengchao Yang*, Yaochen Wang*, Xinfeng Li, Lijun Li, Zhenfei Yin, Yi Zhan, Thorsten Holz, Zhiqiang Lin, XiaoFeng Wang

2025.09 · International Conference on Machine Learning 2026

arXiv   PDF

Are We on the Right Way for Assessing Document Retrieval-Augmented Generation?

Wenxuan Shen, Mingjia Wang, Yaochen Wang, Dongping Chen, Junjie Yang, Yao Wan, Weiwei Lin

2025.08 · 39th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence

arXiv   PDF

Judge Anything: MLLM as a Judge Across Any Modality

Shu Pu*, Yaochen Wang*, Dongping Chen, Yuhang Chen, Guohao Wang, Qi Qin, Zhongyi Zhang, Zhiyuan Zhang, Zetong Zhou, Shuang Gong, Yi Gui, Yao Wan, Philip S Yu

2025.03 · KDD 2025 Datasets and Benchmarks Track (Oral)

ACM   PDF   Local PDF

What can LLM tell us about cities?

Zhuoheng Li, Yaochen Wang, Zhixue Song, Yuqi Huang, Rui Bao, Guanjie Zheng, Zhenhui Jessie Li

2024.11 · arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.16791

arXiv   PDF

MLLM-as-a-Judge: Assessing Multimodal LLM-as-a-Judge with Vision-Language Benchmark

Dongping Chen*, Ruoxi Chen*, Shilin Zhang*, Yaochen Wang*, Yinuo Liu*, Huichi Zhou*, Qihui Zhang*, Pan Zhou, Yao Wan, Lichao Sun

2024.02 · International Conference on Machine Learning 2024 (Oral)

PDF   OpenReview   GitHub   Website

šŸ“– Educations

2021.09 - 2025.06, B.Eng, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications

šŸ’» Services

Reviewer for ICLR 2025

šŸ‘Øā€šŸ’» Experience

Yunqi Academy of Engineering Hangzhou, China (Jul 2024 - Dec 2024)

Research Assistant supervised by Prof. Jessie Zhenhui Li and Prof. Guanjie Zheng


ONE Lab @ HUST Wuhan, China (Dec 2023 - May 2024)

Research Assistant supervised by Prof. Yao Wan