Ying Wen

Ying Wen ζΈ©ι’–

Tenure-Track Associate Professor Β· School of AI, SJTU

Mentor Β· Shanghai Innovation Institute

Ying Wen is a Tenure-Track Associate Professor at the School of Artificial Intelligence, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and a Mentor at the Shanghai Innovation Institute (SII). His research focuses on reinforcement learning, multi-agent systems, and foundation models, spanning theory, algorithms, scalable systems, and real-world deployment. He received the CoRL 2020 Best System Paper Award and the AAMAS 2021 Blue Sky Track Best Paper Award.

He received his MRes (research) and PhD in Computer Science from University College London (2016, 2020), under the supervision of Jun Wang. He obtained his BSc from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (2015).

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News

2026Keynote at Openmind Winter School (organized by Turing Award laureate Rich Sutton).

Featured Publications

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Learning to Reason in Structured In-context Environments with Reinforcement Learning

Peng Yu, Zeyuan Zhao, Shao Zhang, Luoyi Fu, Xinbing Wang, Ying Wen

ICLR [arXiv]

Language Games as the Pathway to Artificial Superhuman Intelligence

Ying Wen, Ziyu Wan, Shao Zhang

arXiv Preprint [arXiv]

Leveraging Dual Process Theory in Language Agent Framework for Real-time Simultaneous Human-AI Collaboration

Shao Zhang, Xihuai Wang, Wenhao Zhang, Chaoran Li, Junru Song, Tingyu Li, Lin Qiu, Xuezhi Cao, Xunliang Cai, Wen Yao, Weinan Zhang, Xinbing Wang, Ying Wen

ACL [arXiv]

Rema: Learning to Meta-Think for LLMs with Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

Ziyu Wan, Yunxiang Li, Xiaoyu Wen, Yan Song, Hanjing Wang, Linyi Yang, Mark Schmidt, Jun Wang, Weinan Zhang, Shuyue Hu, Ying Wen

NeurIPS [arXiv]

Reinforcing Language Agents via Policy Optimization with Action Decomposition

Muning Wen, Ziyu Wan, Weinan Zhang, Jun Wang, Ying Wen

NeurIPS [arXiv]

AlphaZero-like Tree-Search can Guide Large Language Model Decoding and Training

Ziyu Wan, Xidong Feng, Muning Wen, Stephen Marcus McAleer, Ying Wen, Weinan Zhang, Jun Wang

ICML [arXiv] [Code]

Experience & Education

Work

Tenure-Track Associate Professor β€” Shanghai Jiao Tong University, School of AI, 2024.11–present

Mentor β€” Shanghai Innovation Institute (SII), 2025.09–present

Tenure-Track Associate Professor β€” Shanghai Jiao Tong University, John Hopcroft Center, 2024.01–2024.10

Tenure-Track Assistant Professor β€” Shanghai Jiao Tong University, John Hopcroft Center, 2020.09–2023.12

Education

PhD in Computer Science β€” University College London, 2016–2020 (Supervisor: Jun Wang)

MRes in Web Science & Big Data Analytics (Research) β€” University College London, 2015–2016

BSc E-Commerce & Law β€” Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT), 2011–2015