Tenure-Track Associate Professor · Mentor
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).
Why next-generation agents need world models that select controllable, recoverable, and reusable future information rather than only predicting futures.
Read →A working definition of large language environments and how LLM agents turn task logs into verifiable, transferable, and reversible experience.
Read →The pretraining paradigm scaled data. The agent paradigm scales environments. Three observations on environment scaling, continuous evolution, and multi-agent collaboration.
Read →Peng Yu, Zeyuan Zhao, Shao Zhang, Luoyi Fu, Xinbing Wang, Ying Wen
Ying Wen, Ziyu Wan, Shao Zhang
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
Ziyu Wan, Yunxiang Li, Xiaoyu Wen, Yan Song, Hanjing Wang, Linyi Yang, Mark Schmidt, Jun Wang, Weinan Zhang, Shuyue Hu, Ying Wen
Muning Wen, Ziyu Wan, Weinan Zhang, Jun Wang, Ying Wen
Tenure-Track Associate Professor — Shanghai Jiao Tong University, School of AI, 2024.11–present
Mentor — Shanghai Innovation Institute (SII), 2025.09–present
Tenure-Track Associate Professor — Shanghai Jiao Tong University, John Hopcroft Center, 2024.01–2024.10
Tenure-Track Assistant Professor — Shanghai Jiao Tong University, John Hopcroft Center, 2020.09–2023.12
PhD in Computer Science — University College London, 2016–2020 (Supervisor: Jun Wang)
MRes in Web Science & Big Data Analytics (Research) — University College London, 2015–2016
BSc E-Commerce & Law — Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT), 2011–2015