Hi, this is Jiuqi. I am a third-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Virginia, working with Dr. Shangtong Zhang in Sequential Intelligence Lab (SIL). My research interests center around understanding and developing efficient and robust algorithms to solve complex sequential decision-making problems. Currently, I am focusing on the theory and applications of reinforcement learning. With the rapid advancement of large language models, I am also spending some time digging into agentic systems and how RL can help with improving such systems.

Before joining UVA, I earned my MSc. (thesis track) in Computing Science at the University of Alberta under the fantastic co-supervision of Dr. Martin Müller and Dr. Jonathan Schaeffer. I received my BSc. in Honours Computer Science at McGill University, where I was supervised by Dr. Hsiu-chin Lin for Science Undergraduate Research Award (SURA).

🎉 News

• June 2025 I joined Pokee AI as a research scientist intern working on training agentic systems with reinforcement learning!
• Jan. 2025 One paper is accepted at ICLR 2025. See you in Singapore!
• May 2024 I participated in the first AI-SCORE summer school and had so much fun!
• Aug. 2023 I joined UVA as a Ph.D. student in computer science!
• Aug. 2023 I attended CoG 2023 and presented our work Deep Dive on Checkers Endgame Data. Boston is amazing!
• June 2023 I defended my master’s thesis! I cannot thank my supervisors Martin and Jonathan enough for their support.
• May 2023 Our paper Deep Dive on Checkers Endgame Data, based on the work of my master’s thesis, was accepted as a full paper for IEEE Conference on Games 2023!