Ph.D. Student

School of Data Science, CUHKSZ

Brief Bio

Hello! I am a second-year Ph.D. student in the School of Data Science at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen (CUHKSZ), supervised by Professor Tongxin Li. My research interests focus on in-context decision making and robust LLM applications.

Prior to that, I completed a Master’s degree at New York University (Courant Institute) in the USA and a 2+2 double Bachelor’s program at Queen’s University in Canada and Jilin University in China.

Interests
  • In-Context Decision Making

    • in-context reasoning
    • in-context RL
    • in-context control
  • Robust LLM Applications

Education

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Experience

 
 
 
 
 
McGill University, Intelligent Automation Lab
Research Assistant
McGill University, Intelligent Automation Lab
Jul 2022 – Apr 2023 Canada
 
 
 
 
 
Tsinghua University, THUNLP Lab
NLP Algorithm Engineer
Tsinghua University, THUNLP Lab
Sep 2021 – Jun 2022 China
 
 
 
 
 
New York University (Courant Institute), CSCI-GA.1180 Mathematical Techniques for Cs Applications
Course Tutor
New York University (Courant Institute), CSCI-GA.1180 Mathematical Techniques for Cs Applications
Jan 2021 – Jun 2021 USA
 
 
 
 
 
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Identity and Access Management
Full-Stack Software Engineer Intern
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Identity and Access Management
Jun 2020 – Sep 2020 USA
 
 
 
 
 
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Research Program in Big Data & Cybersecurity
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Jul 2018 – Aug 2018 Israel

Publications

Fanzeng Xia, Alfonsus Rodriques Rendy, Nicholas Oh, Zoe Emmanuel Halim, Aaron Sasmita, Tinko Sebastian Bartels, Shaolei Ren, Tongxin Li Position: Towards Unified In-Context Reinforcement Learners
Fanzeng Xia, Hao Liu, Yisong Yue, and Tongxin Li Beyond numeric awards: In-context dueling bandits with llm agents arXiv:2407.01887

Service

 
 
 
 
 
A.I. For Anyone
Workshop Leader
A.I. For Anyone
Sep 2019 – Jun 2021 USA