Published papers at AAAI 2026, NeurIPS 2025, CIKM 2025, KDD 2025 (Best Paper Award), ICML 2025, IJCAI 2025, ECCV 2024, etc.; Received NeurIPS 2025 Scholar Award.
Research Experience
Started Applied Scientist Internship at AWS AI, Fundamental Research, in May 2025; Joined University of Virginia as a PhD student in August 2024; Launched LiveSensus with four co-founders under Alchemy Technology Foundry at UIUC Coordinated Science Laboratory (CSL), supervised by Prof. Sanjay Patel, in January 2020.
Education
PhD: Computer Science, University of Virginia, advised by Prof. Aidong Zhang; M.S.: Computer Science, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University; B.S.: Mathematics, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, minors in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering.
Background
Research Interests: Machine learning, with a focus on improving the robustness and generalizability of models; recently interested in LLM alignment and Agentic AI. Bio: Wenqian Ye is a PhD candidate in Computer Science at the University of Virginia.
Miscellany
Looking for a research scientist/quantitative researcher intern position in summer 2026.