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Academic Achievements
Published papers include 'A survey on causal reinforcement learning', 'Local Causal Structure Learning in the Presence of Latent Variables', 'Policy Learning for Balancing Short-Term and Long-Term Rewards', 'ACE: Off-Policy Actor-Critic with Causality-Aware Entropy Regularization', 'KFC: Knowledge Reconstruction and Feedback Consolidation Enable Efficient and Effective Continual Generative Learning', and many more in international conferences and journals.
Research Experience
Lecturer at Beijing Technology and Business University; Postdoctoral researcher at Tsinghua University (2021-2023), supervised by Prof. Fuchun Sun, working on causal reinforcement learning.
Education
Ph.D. from Guangdong University of Technology (2016-2021), supervised by Prof. Zhifeng Hao, Prof. Ruichu Cai, and co-supervised by Prof. Shohei Shimizu (RIKEN & Shiga University). Visiting Ph.D. student in the causal inference group of RIKEN (2019-2020).
Background
Research Interests: Causal discovery and causal inference, especially with latent variables; Causality-inspired machine learning, especially causal reinforcement learning, policy learning, etc. Currently a lecturer at Beijing Technology and Business University (BTBU) and a visiting scientist at RIKEN, Japan.
Miscellany
Contact: Email - yanazeng013@gmail.com, Mobile - +86-135-8047-9946; Personal homepage also provides links to Google Scholar and GitHub.