Hao Wang

I am a Ph.D. student at Texas A&M University advised by Prof. Zhiwen Fan, and a Senior Research Engineer at Google DeepMind working on Gemini post-training and safety alignment.

Previously, I received my M.Sc. from Carnegie Mellon University and my B.Sc. from the University of Edinburgh, where I was advised by Prof. Hakan Bilen.

  • Agentic RL & post-training
  • Continual learning
  • AI alignment
  • Robot learning
  • World models
Portrait of Hao Wang

News

Publications

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Education

  • Texas A&M UniversityPh.D. in Computer Engineering2026 – now
  • Carnegie Mellon UniversityM.Sc. in Computer Science2021 – 2022
  • University of EdinburghB.Sc. Artificial Intelligence and Computer ScienceFirst-Class Honours2017 – 2020

Experience

  • Google DeepMindSenior Research EngineerGemini Post-Training & Safety Alignment2022 – now
  • ByteDanceMachine Learning Engineer Intern2020.12 – 2021.07
  • University of EdinburghResearch AssistantVisual Computing Group (VICO)2019.06 – 2020.05

Awards

  • University of Edinburgh Class Medal (highest GPA in the undergraduate cohort)
  • Carnegie Mellon University Director's Scholarship
  • Spiritus Prize for Health and Wellbeing

Service & Teaching

  • Reviewer: ICLR, ACL, COLM, BMVC
  • TA, University of Edinburgh: Algorithms, Data Structures, Machine Learning, Software Engineering
  • TA, Carnegie Mellon University: 17-637 Web Application Development