About me

I am currently a Senior Researcher at Tencent, Shenzhen, China. Previously, I completed my Ph.D. (2021) and B.S. (2016) in Computer Science at Tsinghua University, advised by Prof. Guangwen Yang.

During my doctoral studies, I conducted research internships at Microsoft Research Asia from 2016 to 2019, where I was first advised by Dr. Lintao Zhang (2016-2018) and later by Dr. Tao Qin and Dr. Li Zhao (2018-2019). Additionally, I worked as a Visiting Student Researcher at Stanford University from 2020 to 2021, advised by Prof. Tengyu Ma.

My research interests include AI agents, deep reinforcement learning, causal inference, data science and their commercial applications.

Publications

(* represents equal contribution)

Talks

  • JueWu-MC: Playing Minecraft with Sample-efficient Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning
    IJCAI, Long Oral, 2022

  • Model-based Adversarial Meta-Reinforcement Learning
    ICML, BIG Workshop, 2020

  • Unified Policy Optimization for Reinforcement Learning [slides]
    Nagoya, Japan, 2019

  • Towards Sample-efficient, Interpretable and Robust Reinforcement Learning [slides]
    Wuxi, China, 2019

  • Episodic Memory Deep Q-Networks [slides]
    Stockholm, Sweden, 2018

  • Reinforcement Learning: Episodic Memory and Learning to Run [slides]
    MSRA, Beijing, 2017

Awards & Honors

  • Beijing Outstanding PhD Graduate, 2021.
  • 84 Innovative Future Scholarship (Top 1%) at department of Computer Science at Tsinghua University, 2020.
  • National Scholarship (Top 1%) at Tsinghua University, 2020.
  • Person of the Year nominee, Tsinghua University, 2019. [Media Coverage]
  • Tsinghua Scholarship for Overseas Graduate Study, 2019.
  • Excellence in the Microsoft Research Asia Internship Program, 2018. [Media Coverage]
  • WeChat Public Account Article, Tsinghua University, 2018. [Media Coverage]
  • National Scholarship (Top 1%) at Tsinghua University, 2018.
  • Top 10 Outstanding Athletes at Tsinghua University, 2017. [Media Coverage]
  • Excellent Undergraduate Thesis Award (Top 10%) at Tsinghua University, 2016.
  • Top 2 in Tsinghua Mathematical Contest in Modeling, 2016.
  • 1st Place in College Table Tennis Student Championships in Beijing, 2013-2016.
  • Table Tennis National First-Level Athlete, 2012.
  • 1st Place in World Table Tennis Student Championships, Liaoning, China, 2011.