I am currently a Ph.D. candidate at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), under the supervision of Prof. Yunjian Xu. Prior to this, I earned my bachelor’s degree from Zhejiang University (ZJU) and my master’s degree from the National University of Singapore (NUS), where I was advised by Prof. Wentao Yan.

My research interests focus on developing trustworthy RL algorithms for robotic control as well as exploring large language models (LLMs) and large vision-language models (LVLMs). I am fortunate to collaborate closely with with Xufang Luo, Dongqi Han and Dongsheng Li from Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) in these respective fields.

✨I am expected to graduate in June 2026 and am actively seeking internship opportunities or potential full-time positions in the industry. Please feel free to contact me through email (zhyang@link.cuhk.edu.hk)!

News

• 🎉 (2025.3) I was honored to receive the “MSRA Stars of Tomorrow” Award of Excellence (Top 10% research intern).
• 🎉 (2025.3) My first-author paper OPA-DPO has been accepted by CVPR 2025.
• 😁 (2024.6) I joined MSRA-Shanghai AI/ML Group as a research intern.
• 🎉 (2024.1) My first-author paper DMBP has been accepted by ICLR 2024.
  
  

Experience

Corporate Internships:

• 💻 Research Intern at MSRA (2024.6 - 2025.2): Research on RLH(AI)F algorithms for (Multimodal) Large Langauge Models.
• 💻 Engineer Intern at FESTO (2020.6 - 2020.8): Designing industrial cylinder structure.

Educations:

• 🎓 B.E. from Zhejiang University (2017.8-2021.6): Mechanical Engineering, GPA 3.84/4.00 (rank 7/84).
• 🎓 M.S. from National University of Singapore (2020.9-2022.7): (Joint Program with ZJU) Mechanical Engineering, GPA 4.90/5.00 (rank 1/140), supervised by Prof. Wentao Yan.
• 🏛️ Ph.D. from The Chinese University of Hong Kong (2022.8-2026.6 expected): Mechanical and Automation Engineering, GPA 3.95/4.00, supervised by Prof. Yunjian Xu.
  
  

Selected Awards

• 🎖️ MSRA “Stars of Tomorrow” Award of Excellence (2025): Top 10% research intern.
• 💰 CUHK Postgraduate Scholarship (2022-2026).
• 🎖️ Singapore Professional Engineers Board Gold Medal (2022): Best Graduate in NUS-ME, sole recipient.
• 📜 Zhejiang University Outstanding Graduate (2021): Top 10% undergraduate students.
• 💰 Zhejiang Provincial Government Scholarship (2019).