Scholar
Ling Pan
Google Scholar ID: 9XrWuI8AAAAJ
Assistant Professor, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Citations & Impact
Citations
1,109
H-index
16
i10-index
19
Publications
20
Co-authors
20
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Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Selected for AAAI New Faculty Highlights program, 2025
- Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award, Tsinghua University, 2022 (only computer science thesis selected from IIIS that year)
- Microsoft Research Ph.D. Fellowship (Asia), 2020
- Serves as Area Chair for top ML venues: NeurIPS, ICLR, RLC
- Senior Program Committee (SPC) member for AAMAS
- Program Committee member for ICML, NeurIPS, ICLR, AAAI, TMLR, TPAMI
- Organized Safe Generative AI Workshop @ NeurIPS 2024, Agent-based Information Retrieval Workshop @ SIGIR 2024/2025, GFlowNet Workshop @ Mila 2023
- Invited talks at MIT CSAIL, UC Berkeley BAIR, RLChina 2023/2024
Background
- Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) since Spring 2024
- Also holds a courtesy appointment in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering
- Research focuses on theoretical understanding, algorithmic improvements, and practical applications of (reward-maximizing) deep reinforcement learning, (reward-matching) GFlowNets, and multi-agent systems
- Aims to develop robust, efficient, and practical intelligent decision-making algorithms
- Interested in applying decision-making algorithms to scientific discovery, computational sustainability, and post-training of foundation models
