Matthew Hong Bay of Fires, Tasmania

Matthew Hong

Hi! I'm a first-year PhD student in Computer Science at UT Austin. My research goal is to build autonomous agents that learn and adapt through real-world interaction. To this end, I work on robotics and reinforcement learning (RL).

Previously, I spent a year at the University of Washington working with Abhishek Gupta and Jesse Zhang. Before that, I graduated from USC working with Erdem Bıyık, Jesse Zhang, and Anthony Liang.

News

Oct 2026VETO and QCP accepted to CoRL 2026 workshops — see you in Austin!
Jun 2026CLAM accepted to IROS 2026!
Apr 2026TMRL accepted to RSS 2026 — see you in Sydney!
Jan 2026HAND accepted to ICRA 2026 — see you in Vienna!
Apr 2025Received the Best Research Award from the USC Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science!

Publications

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QCP: Suboptimal Experience Can Be Useful for RL Post-Training
Matthew M Hong, Roberto Martín-Martín†, Amy Zhang†