Zihan Ding
Scholar

Zihan Ding

Google Scholar ID: t5DgPBAAAAAJ
Princeton University
Reinforcement LearningMultimodal ModelsRoboticsMachine Learning
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • - Publications: 'LLM Economist: Large Population Models and Mechanism Design in Multi-Agent Generative Simulacra' and more
  • - Books: Co-author of 'Deep Reinforcement Learning: Fundamentals, Research and Applications', Author of Chapter: 'Reinforcement Learning System' in 'Machine Learning System: Design and Implementation'
Research Experience
  • - Research intern at Meta GenAI (Menlo Park)
  • - Research intern at Adobe Research (San Jose)
  • - Research intern at Meta Fundamental AI Research (FAIR, New York)
  • - Research intern at Inspir.ai (Beijing)
  • - Research intern at Tencent Robotics X (Shenzhen)
  • - Research intern at Borealis AI (Toronto)
Education
  • - Ph.D. candidate at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Princeton University, supervised by Chi Jin
  • - MSc in Machine Learning from Imperial College London, Fall 2019, thesis project supervised by Dr. Edward Johns
  • - Bachelor degrees from the University of Science and Technology of China, 2018, majoring in Photoelectric Information Science and Engineering (Physics Dept., Bachelor of Science) and dual-majoring in Computer Science and Technology (CS Dept., Bachelor of Engineering), bachelor thesis supervised by Dr. Jinming Cui and Prof. Yunfeng Huang
Background
  • Research Interests: Artificial General Intelligence with long-term planning capabilities, sequential decision-making problems, and expressive models with generalization. Focus areas include deep reinforcement learning (deep RL) in single-agent or multi-agent scenarios, expressive diffusion generative models, foundation multi-modal models, and learning-based methods for robotics with generalization capability.
Miscellany
  • Blogs:
  • - Foundational Video World Model (2024.12)
  • - Nuts and Bolts in Training Transformers and Diffusion Models (2025.04)
  • - A Review of My Last 10 Years of Study and Research (2025.09)
  • - Conscious AI Agents and Alignment (2025.09)