Zheng Wen - Resume

• My PDF CV is available upon request.

Education

• Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, GPA 4.109/4.3. My Ph.D. advisor was Prof. Benjamin Van Roy.

  • Dissertation: Efficient Reinforcement Learning with Value Function Generalization

  • Research focuses on reinforcement learning and approximate dynamic programming

• Ph.D. Minor in Business/Finance, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford University.

• Master of Science (M.S.) in Electrical Engineering, Washington State University, GPA 4.0/4.0. My M.S. advisors were Prof. Ali Saberi and Prof. Sandip Roy.

  • Thesis: On the External Stability of Linear Systems with Actuator Saturation Constraints, and the Decentralized Control of Communicating-Agent Networks with Security Constraints

  • Research focuses on nonlinear control and decentralized control

• Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Electrical Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, GPA 93/100. My thesis advisor was Prof. Dianguo Xu.

• Undergraduate Exchange Student, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

• Courses I have taken

Employment

• Staff Research Scientist, Google DeepMind, Mountain View, CA. From July 2019.

• Adjunct Lecturer, Stanford University, Stanford, CA. 2020-2022, 2023-2024.

• Senior Research Scientist, Adobe Research, San Jose, CA. 2016-2019.

• Research Scientist, Yahoo Labs, Sunnyvale, CA. 2014-2016.

• Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Technicolor Research, Palo Alto, CA, 2013-2014.

Teaching/Mentoring Experiences

• Co-Instructor, EE 277, Reinforcement Learning: Behaviors and Applications (co-listed as MS&E 237), Fall Quarter 2020, 2021, 2023, Stanford University.

• Guest Lecturer, MS&E 338, Reinforcement Learning, Winter Quarter 2017, Stanford University.

• Intern Mentor, since 2015, I have mentored many outstanding interns at Yahoo Labs, Adobe Research, and DeepMind.

• Instructor, MS&E 351, Dynamic Programming and Stochastic Control, Fall Quarter 2013, Stanford University.

  • Overall Teaching Evaluation: 4.41/5 (area mean is 4.22)

Honors

• Quarter 2 Hackday Winner, Yahoo Inc., 2015.

• Stanford Graduate Fellowship, Stanford University, 2008-2012.

• Outstanding Master of Science (M.S.) Student, Washington State University, 2007.

• Outstanding Student Scholarship, Harbin Institute of Technology, 2002.

Affiliations

• Member of ACM, IEEE and INFORMS

Skills

• Languages: Chinese (native), English (fluent)

• Programming: Python, MATLAB, C/C++, Java, Linux shell