Zhengran Ji
Scholar

Zhengran Ji

Google Scholar ID: hAejFdUAAAAJ
Duke University
RoboticsReinforcement LearningMulti-agent SystemsRLHF
Citations & Impact
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Citations
47
 
H-index
5
 
i10-index
2
 
Publications
8
 
Co-authors
6
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Pref-GUIDE: Continual Policy Learning from Real-Time Human Feedback via Preference-Based Learning, published in Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR 2025).
  • HUMAC: Enabling Multi-Robot Collaboration from Single-Human Guidance, presented at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2025).
  • GUIDE: A framework for real-time human-guided reinforcement learning that accelerates policy learning by integrating continuous human feedback into dense rewards, featured at Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2024).
  • CREW: A platform for Human-AI teaming research, introduced in Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR 2024).
  • MnEdgeNet -- A regression deep learning network for decomposing Mn valence states from EELS and XAS L2,3 edges, published in Scientific Report, 2023.
Research Experience
  • Currently working on Human-guided Reinforcement Learning, Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning, and RLHF.
Education
  • Received BS in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of California, Irvine (UCI), advised by Prof. Huolin Xin; now pursuing a PhD at Duke University, advised by Prof. Boyuan Chen.
Background
  • Currently a first-year PhD student in Computer Science at Duke University. Research interests include reinforcement learning, multi-agent/robot systems, human-in-the-loop learning, and RLHF.
Miscellany
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