Ph.D. Students

	Shuze Liu Ph.D. candidate, Fall 2022 - Now
	Ethan Blaser Ph.D. candidate, Fall 2023 - Now NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
	Jiuqi Wang Ph.D. student, Fall 2023 - Now
	Xinyu Liu Ph.D. student, Fall 2024 - Now
	Zixuan Xie Ph.D. student, Fall 2024 - Now UVA Provost’s Fellowship UVA Engineering Distinguished Fellowship
	Amir Moeini Ph.D. student, Fall 2024 - Now

Alumni with Theses or Publications

• Kefan Song (Master, 2023 - 2024)
  • Group Fairness in Reinforcement Learning and Large Language Models (Master thesis)
• Licheng Luo (Master, 2023 - 2024)
  • Policy Optimization in Robust Markov Decision Processes with Transition Gradient Theorem (Master thesis)
• Xiaochi Qian (Undergraduate, 2022 - 2024)
  • Almost Sure Convergence Rates and Concentration of Stochastic Approximation and Reinforcement Learning with Markovian Noise
  • Revisiting a Design Choice in Gradient Temporal Difference Learning (ICLR 2025)
• Steve Zhou (Undergraduate, 2023 - 2024)
  • Stock Trading with Reinforcement Learning: Average Reward Agent and Alpha Preservation (DMP thesis)