Xuanlang Dai

Xuanlang Dai 戴煊朗

Incoming PhD · Fudan University & Shanghai AI Laboratory
B.Eng. Computer Science · Xi'an Jiaotong University

About

I am an incoming PhD student at Fudan University and the Shanghai AI Laboratory, advised by Prof. Yuhang Zang. I received my B.Eng. in Computer Science from Xi'an Jiaotong University (XJTU), where I was a member of the Luo Lab.

I am currently a Research Intern at the Shanghai AI Laboratory, working with Prof. Yuhang Zang on multimodal reasoning and vision-language models. I have also gained research and industry experience at Westlake University, UC Berkeley, 4Paradigm, and Merit Interactive.

My research focuses on Natural Language Processing and Multimodal Learning — building AI systems that understand and reason across language and vision.

NLP Multimodal Learning LLMs Vision-Language Models Reasoning

News

Sep 2025 InternJoined Shanghai AI Laboratory as a research intern, advised by Prof. Yuhang Zang. Will start PhD at Fudan University in Fall 2026.

Selected Publications Full list on Scholar →

EndoCoT
EndoCoT: Scaling Endogenous Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in Diffusion Models
Xuanlang Dai, Yujie Zhou, Long Xing, Jiazi Bu, Xilin Wei, Yuhong Liu, Beichen Zhang, Kai Chen, Yuhang Zang
PreprintarXiv, Mar 2026

Selected Projects

WildClawBench
WildClawBench
An in-the-wild benchmark for AI agents in the OpenClaw Environment.
BenchmarkAI Agents

Experience

2026 →
PhD Student (incoming)
Fudan University & Shanghai AI Laboratory
2025
Research Intern
2025
Research Assistant
2024
Exchange Student
UC Berkeley
2024
Research Intern
4Paradigm, Shanghai
2024
Software Engineering Intern
Merit Interactive, Hangzhou
2022–25
Undergraduate Researcher