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KAIXIN WANG
Email: kaixin96.wang@gmail.com Homepage: https://kaixin96.github.io
Education

National University of Singapore Singapore
Ph.D. in Data Science Aug 2018 - Aug 2022
Advisors: Jiashi Feng, Bryan Hooi, Xinchao Wang
 
Nanjing University Nanjing, China
Bachelor in Information Management and Information System Sep 2014 - Jun 2018
Research Works

*Equal contribution
Peer-Reviewed Conference Publications
 
[9] Revisiting Intrinsic Reward for Exploration in Procedurally Generated Environments
Kaixin Wang, Kuangqi Zhou, Bingyi Kang, Jiashi Feng, Shuicheng Yan
in International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2023.
 
[8] Jointly Modelling Uncertainty and Diversity for Active Molecular Property Prediction
Kuangqi Zhou, Kaixin Wang, Jian Tang, Jiashi Feng, Bryan Hooi, Peilin Zhao, Tingyang Xu, Xinchao Wang
in Learning on Graphs Conference (LoG), 2022.
 
[7] Relational Reasoning via Set Transformers: Provable Efficiency and Applications to MARL
Fengzhuo Zhang, Boyi Liu, Kaixin Wang, Vincent Y. F. Tan, Zhuoran Yang, Zhaoran Wang
in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2022.
 
[6] The Geometry of Robust Value Functions
Kaixin Wang, Navdeep Kumar, Kuangqi Zhou, Bryan Hooi, Jiashi Feng, Shie Mannor
in International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2022.
 
[5] Understanding and Resolving Performance Degradation in Graph Convolutional Networks
Kuangqi Zhou*, Yanfei Dong*, Kaixin Wang, Wee Sun Lee, Bryan Hooi, Huan Xu, Jiashi Feng
in Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2021. (oral)
 
[4] Towards Better Laplacian Representation in Reinforcement Learning with Generalized Graph Drawing
Kaixin Wang*, Kuangqi Zhou*, Qixin Zhang, Jie Shao, Bryan Hooi, Jiashi Feng
in International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2021.
 
[3] Improving Generalization in Reinforcement Learning with Mixture Regularization
Kaixin Wang, Bingyi Kang, Jie Shao, Jiashi Feng
in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2020.
 
[2] Neural Epitome Search for Architecture-Agnostic Network Compression
Daquan Zhou, Xiaojie Jin, Qibin Hou, Kaixin Wang, Jianchao Yang, Jiashi Feng
in International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2020.
 
[1] PANet: Few-shot Image Semantic Segmentation with Prototype Alignment
Kaixin Wang, Jun Hao Liew, Yingtian Zou, Daquan Zhou, Jiashi Feng
in International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2019. (oral)
 
Non-archival / Workshop Papers
 
[6] PPG Reloaded: An Empirical Study on What Matters in Phasic Policy Gradient
Kaixin Wang, Daquan Zhou, Jiashi Feng, Shie Mannor
Technical report, 2023.
 
[5] Reachability-Aware Laplacian Representation in Reinforcement Learning
Kaixin Wang, Kuangqi Zhou, Jiashi Feng, Bryan Hooi, Xinchao Wang
Technical report, 2022.
 
[4] Q-Learning for L_p Robust Markov Decision Processes
Navdeep Kumar, Kaixin Wang, Kfir Levy, Shie Mannor
in The European Workshop on Reinforcement Learning (EWRL), 2022.
 
[3] Efficient Policy Iteration for Robust Markov Decision Processes via Regularization
Navdeep Kumar, Kfir Levy, Kaixin Wang, Shie Mannor
Technical report, 2022.
 
[2] Tyger: Task-Type-Generic Active Learning for Molecular Property Prediction
Kuangqi Zhou, Kaixin Wang, Jiashi Feng, Jian Tang, Tingyang Xu, Xinchao Wang
Technical report, 2022.
 
[1] Policy Gradient for Reinforcement Learning with General Utilities
Navdeep Kumar, Kaixin Wang, Kfir Levy, Shie Mannor
in The Multi-disciplinary Conference on Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making (RLDM), 2022.
Academic Experience

Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Haifa, Israel
Postdoctoral Fellow (Supervisor: Prof. Shie Mannor) Aug 2022 - present
 
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Haifa, Israel
Visiting PhD Student (Supervisor: Prof. Shie Mannor) Sep 2021 - Feb 2022
 
University of Western Australia Perth, Australia
Research Intern (Supervisor: Prof. Mark Reynolds) Jul 2017 - Aug 2017
 
Zhejiang University Hangzhou, China
Exchange Student Mar 2017 - Jun 2017
Working Experience

Intelligent Creation Research, TikTok Singapore
Intern, mentored by Jiashi Feng Apr 2022 - July 2022
 
Sea AI Lab Singapore
Intern, mentored by Bingyi Kang Mar 2021 - Jun 2021
 
ByteDance AI Lab Singapore
Intern, mentored by Jie Shao Apr 2020 - Feb 2021
 
Horizon Robotics Nanjing, China
Intern, mentored by Guixing Chen Nov 2017 - Mar 2018
Awards & Scholarships

PREMIA Best Student Paper, Silver Award 2021
NUS NGS Scholarship 2018 - 2022
Services

Conference Reviewer
  • AAAI: 2023
  • ICML: 2021 (top 10%), 2022, 2023
  • ICLR: 2022, 2023
  • NeurIPS: 2021
Journal Reviewer
  • IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
  • IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
  • IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
  • Machine Vision and Applications
  • Transactions on Machine Learning Research
Volunteer
  • ICML: 2020, 2021
  • NeurIPS: 2020
  • ICLR: 2020, 2021
Teaching
  • NUS EE5934/6934: Deep Learning - Teaching Assistant
  • NUS IDS PhD-Teach-PhD workshop 2019 - Instructor