Xingyao Wang
Co-founder and Chief AI Officer of All Hands AI; first author of the OpenHands and CodeAct papers
- Co-founder and Chief AI Officer, All Hands AI (OpenHands)12
- Computer science PhD candidate advised by Heng Ji, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign1
Xingyao Wang is a co-founder of All Hands AI, which builds the open-source software agent OpenHands, and is listed on the company's team page as Chief AI Officer. Wang is also a computer science PhD candidate at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign advised by Heng Ji. Wang is first author of the OpenHands paper, the CodeAct paper on executable code actions for LLM agents, and the OpenHands Software Agent SDK paper.12345
Career
Wang previously interned at Tencent (2020, distributed deep learning), ByteDance (2021, the lightseq library), Microsoft (2022, unit-test generation) and Google Research (2023, multimodal LLM pre-training).1
Wang co-founded All Hands AI to build OpenHands and serves as its Chief AI Officer, while completing a PhD at UIUC with Heng Ji. Wang's stated interest is AI that improves itself from real-world use, including turning user interactions into supervision for models.12
Research
Work
OpenHandsOpen-source code
First author of the OpenHands paper (2024) and of the OpenHands Software Agent SDK paper (2025), and a co-founder of the company that builds the project.351
CodeAct (external site: arxiv.org)Published research
First author of "Executable Code Actions Elicit Better LLM Agents" (2024), which proposes using executable Python code as the action space for LLM agents.4
Career timeline
2020
Interned at Tencent, working on distributed deep learning.1
2021
Interned at ByteDance, working on the lightseq library.1
2022
Interned at Microsoft, working on unit-test generation.1
2023
Interned at Google Research, working on multimodal LLM pre-training.1
Feb 2024
Posted "Executable Code Actions Elicit Better LLM Agents" (CodeAct) as first author.4
Jul 2024
Posted the OpenHands paper as first author.3
Nov 2025
Posted the OpenHands Software Agent SDK paper as first author.5
Other documented roles
Roles the sources document but that are not confirmed as current.
- Intern working on multimodal LLM pre-training (2023), Google Research1
- Intern working on unit-test generation (2022), Microsoft1
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