Hi, I am He Wang, a fourth-year PhD candidate in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. I am fortunate to be advised by Prof. Yuejie Chi and Prof. Gauri Joshi.

Prior to CMU, I received a M.S. in Communication and Information System from the University of Chinese Academy advised by Prof. Jie Lu in 2022 and a Bachelor’s degree in ShanghaiTech University as an Outstanding Graduate in 2019.

My current research interests are in reinforcement learning and distributed optimization, with a focus on sample efficiency and robustness. I have also worked on post-training methods and agentic models.

If you’re interested in collaborating or talking further, feel free to contact me!

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Oct, 2025 Two papers got accepted to the NeurIPS 2025 workshop on RL! Excited to chat in San Diego!
Oct, 2025 I will give a talk on robust RL at INFORMS 2025. See you at Atlanta!
May, 2025 I returned to Amazon Web Services (AWS) at Santa Clara this summer as a research intern, happy to meet up if you are around!
Dec, 2024 The full version of our work “Communication-Efficient Federated Optimization over Semi-Decentralized Networks``, is accepted to IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Networks, 2025! paper
May, 2024 Our work “Sample Complexity of Offline Distributionally Robust Linear Markov Decision Processes``, is accepted to Reinforcement Learning Conference (RLC), 2024! [Full version]. See you around at Amherst this August!
Jan, 2023 I was selected to receive the Bob Lee Gregory Fellowship! Thank you for all my collaborators and my wonderful advisor!