Ning Wang

Second-year CS PhD student at Cornell University.

About

I am a second-year CS PhD student at Cornell University, advised by Sainyam Galhotra. My research sits at the intersection of data management and large language models, building LLM agents that discover, integrate, and reason over structured data — more efficiently, reliably, and autonomously.

Before Cornell, I completed an M.Eng. in Systems Engineering at Cornell University and a B.Sc. in Statistics at the University of British Columbia, during which I also worked as a research assistant at UCLA Anderson School of Management, advised by Jingyuan Zhang.

Recent Works

Ning Wang*, Zhengxin Zhang*, Sainyam Galhotra, Claire Cardie
Preprint, 2026 · *equal contribution (order by coin flip)
Ning Wang*, Kuanyan Zhu*, Daniel Yuehwoon Yee*, Yitang Gao, Shiying Huang, Zirun Xu, Sainyam Galhotra
arXiv preprint · *equal contribution

Experience

Teaching Assistant
Cornell University · Part-time
Jan 2025 – Present
Graduate Research Assistant
Cornell University · Part-time
Aug 2024 – Present
Research Assistant
Cornell University · Part-time
Sep 2023 – Aug 2024
Research Assistant
UCLA Anderson School of Management · Part-time · Advisor: Jingyuan Zhang
Sep 2022 – Feb 2023

Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science
Cornell University · Advisor: Sainyam Galhotra
in progress
M.Eng. in Systems Engineering
Cornell University
2024
B.Sc. in Statistics
University of British Columbia
2023