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Jack Yansong Li 李岩松

Taken at 普友茶庄 with my family in 2020

About Me

I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Illinois Chicago. I am very fortunate to be advised by Prof. Shuo Han. I received my bachelors in Department of Mathematics at the Southern University of Science and Technology.

My primary research interests lie in reinforcement learning and game theory. Currently, I am working on combining model-based RL with model-free RL. Previously, I have worked on projects that examines optimization techniques for Stackelberg games.

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I am currently seeking a Post-Doctoral position or an Assistant Professor position. Below, I have attached my CV and statements outlining. I welcome any opportunities that align with my expertise and interests. Please feel free to contact me if you are aware of any positions or opportunities. I would be delighted to discuss how my skills and experiences can contribute to your team or institution:

[Curriculum Vitae]

[Research Statement (more theoretical)]

[Research Statement (more on engineering)]

[Teaching Statement] [Diversity Statement]

Notes

On this website, I've shared some notes from my Ph.D. journey. If you encounter any problems or spot any inaccuracies in the notes, please don't hesitate to reach out to me. You can email me at yli340@uic.edu. For a complete list of all the notes I've published here, please refer to here.

Contributions to Open Source Projects

I am a co-founder of LIII NETWORK (三鲤网络), an open source company that developes:

Publications

All my publications are available as open access on Google Scholar: Yansong Li's Google Scholar. Feel free to email me if you have any questions for my work or seek for collaboration. I am open to all collaboration opportunities.

Conference

Sep 2024 Manuscript: “Generalizing End-To-End Autonomous Driving In Real-World Environments Using Zero-Shot LLMs”.
Accepted for publication in the 8th Annual Conference on Robot Learning.
Mar 2024 Extended abstract: “Efficient Collaboration with Unknown Agents: Ignoring Similar Agents without Checking Similarity”.
Accepted for publication as extended abstract in the Proc. of the 23rd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2024).
Mar 2023 Manuscript: “Solving Strongly Convex and Smooth Stackelberg Games Without Modeling the Follower”.
Accepted for publication in the American Control Conference (ACC) 2023. [IEEE Xplore]
June 2022 Manuscript: “Accelerating Model-Free Policy Optimization Using Model-Based Gradient: A Composite Optimization Perspective”.
Accepted for publication in the Proceedings of The 4th Annual Learning for Dynamics and Control Conference. [PMLR]

Preprint

Dec 2024 Renaissance of Literate Programming in the Era of LLMs: Enhancing LLM-Based Code Generation in Large-Scale Projects
Nov 2024 EAPCR: A Universal Feature Extractor for Scientific Data without Explicit Feature Relation Patterns
Aug 2024 When to Trust Your Data: Enhancing Dyna-Style Model-Based Reinforcement Learning With Data Filter”.
Aug 2024 Goldfish Scheme: A Scheme Interpreter with Python-Like Standard Library
Mar 2024 Bayes-Optimal, Robust, and Distributionally Robust Policies for Uncertain MDPs”.
Jan 2024 Removing Redundant Partner Policies May Be Unnecessary for Ad Hoc Teamwork”.