Wei Yang
Viterbi School of Engineering, USC
Los Angeles, USA
My name is Wei Yang. I am currently a Ph.D. candidate at the Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California (USC), advised by Prof. Yue Zhao, Prof. Jesse Thomason, and Prof. Xuezhe Ma. I am a member of the FORTIS Lab and the GLAMOR Lab. I received my B.S. degree from Huazhong University of Science and Technology.
I am on the 2027 job market! Please feel free to reach out if you think I would be a good fit, and I would greatly appreciate any referrals.
π¬ Research Interests
My research interests primarily lie in Multi-Agent LLM Systems, Agentic Data Synthesis, Self-Evolving LLMs, Multi-Agent RL, and Generative & Multimodal Ranking:
- Agentic LLM Systems
- Long-term Memory
- Meta-Thinking MAS Collaboration
- LLM Reasoning Compression
- Rubrics-oriented Auto-Research
- Data Synthesis for Self-Evolving LLMs
- Agentic Data Synthesis
- Feedback-driven Self-Evolving LLMs
- Synthesis - Reasoning Agents Co-training
- Multi-Agent LLMs RL Co-training
- General RL Framework for MAS LLMs
- Efficient MARL Algorithms
- Generative & Multimodal Ranking
- User Preference Reasoning, Alignment & Optimization
- Cross-Modal Fusion & Alignment
- Multi-Agent Collaboration for Reranking
ποΈ News
| Date | Update |
|---|---|
| Sep 24, 2026 | ππ Two papers are accepted by NeurIPS 2026. |
| Sep 02, 2026 | π One papers is accepted by AI OPEN [IF8.9, CiteScore31.3]. |
| Aug 20, 2026 | ππ Two papers are accepted by EMNLP 2026. |
| Jul 10, 2026 | π One paper is accepted by ICCAD 2026. |
| Jun 09, 2026 | π One paper is accepted by TMLR 2026. |
| May 26, 2026 | π₯π₯π₯ We release UnityMAS-O: A General RL Optimization Framework for Multi-Agent LLM Systems article |
| May 17, 2026 | π One paper is accepted by KDD 2026. |
| Apr 30, 2026 | π One paper is accepted by ICML 2026. Honored to be nominated as a Gold Reviewer. |
| Apr 02, 2026 | π One paper is accepted by SIGIR 2026 Oral. |
| Mar 13, 2026 | π Our team is selected as a Finalist for the 2026 Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship: link |
| Mar 06, 2026 | π€ Give a Talk at NICE AI on Human-Multi-Agent Collaboration: post |
| Feb 25, 2026 | π One paper is accepted by TMLR 2026. |
| Feb 20, 2026 | π₯ We release TemporalBench Benchmark for LLM Agents on Contextual Time Series: article |
| Jan 26, 2026 | π One paper is accepted by MLSys 2026 Oral. |
| Jan 26, 2026 | π One paper is accepted by ICLR 2026. |
| Jan 17, 2026 | π One paper is accepted by ICASSP 2026 Oral. |
| Dec 16, 2025 | π₯ We release Towards Evolutionary Agentic LLMs with MARL Survey: article |
| Nov 09, 2025 | π° Interviewed by MIT Technology Review: article - Meta-Policy Multi-Agent Collaboration |
| Nov 07, 2025 | π One paper is accepted by AAAI 2026. |
| Sep 16, 2025 | π₯ We release Reasoning and Agentic LLMs for Time Series Survey: article |
| Sep 10, 2025 | π One paper is accepted by NeurIPS 2025. |
| Jul 05, 2025 | π One paper is accepted by ACM MM 2025. |
| Jul 03, 2025 | π One paper is accepted by RecSys 2025. |
| Apr 05, 2025 | π One paper is accepted by SIGIR 2025 Oral. |
| Jan 15, 2025 | ππ Two papers are accepted by WWW 2025 Oral. |
| Jul 01, 2024 | ππ Two papers are accepted by ACM MM 2024. |
| Apr 05, 2024 | π One paper is accepted by IJCAI 2024. |