My name is Zecheng (Victor) Wang. I am starting as a PhD student at Boston University Advised by Dr. Boqing Gong Fall 2024. Before that, I working as Research Assistant with Dr. Keith Ross at NYU Abu Dhabi. Our research focused on Deep Reinforcement Learning topics such as pre-training effects on RL, cross-environment learning, as well as using scalable architectures in RL. See our latest topic here.

I graduated from New York University Shanghai. During my undergraduate years, I worked with Dr. Yik-Cheung Tam on Natural language processing topics such as task-oriented dialogue systems and retrieval-augmented language modeling. See our paper at ICASSP 2023.

During my study away program at NYU New York, I joined AI for Scientific Research Group as machine learning specialist working on solving scientific problems with ML solutions. Later I become the ML Lead for the group responsible for multiple teams of the group. Currently, I act as an ML advisor for the group.

I conducted my capstone project with Professor Keith Ross on modeling simultaneous machine translation with Reinforcement Learning framework. See the report.

Latest CV here.

Latest News (Starting from 2024)

• 9.1.2024 - I am starting my PhD at Boston University advised by Dr. Boqing Gong.
• 1.16.2024 - Excited to share that my new paper on Pretraining with Synthetic Data Helps Offline Reinforcement Learning has been accepted at ICLR 2024. Read more.