About Me
I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (jointly appointed with the Computer Science Department) at the University of Central Florida (UCF). I am also affiliated with the Artificial Intelligence Institute.
I received my Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from The State University of New York at Buffalo in 2023, under the advisement of Prof. Shaofeng Zou, and my B.S. in Mathematics from Nanjing University in 2019.
Research Interests
- Theoretical and algorithmic foundations of reinforcement learning
- Game theory and multi-agent systems
- Alignment and large language models
- Robotics
Prospective Students
I am looking for highly motivated Ph.D. students with strong backgrounds in mathematics, statistics, computer science, or electrical engineering. If you have a solid foundation in mathematical concepts and are interested in working with me, please send me an email with your CV and transcripts.
UCF students are encouraged to contact me for research opportunities/thesis.
Note: Students whom I never met before, please DO NOT cold email me about grader/TA jobs. I will not reply. Please contact the department directly.
News
- 2026.05 Four papers are accepted by ICML 2026! Congratulations to Debamita and Zach!
- 2026.04 I received the Amazon Research Award!
- 2026.01 Zain and Debamita's paper is accepted by ICLR 2026; Another two papers are accepted by ICASSP and AISTATS. Congratulations to the students and collaborators!
- 2026.01 Our first paper on LLM fine-tuning is accepted by AAMAS 2026 as an Extended Abstract.
- 2026.01 Two papers are accepted by AAAI 2026 (accepted rate 17.6%, and one is selected as Oral). Congratulations to Shihab and Debamita, and thanks to our collaborators!