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Zhaoyang Wang

Ph.D. Student in CS
University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill
[email protected] where X=first name

About Me

My name is Zhaoyang Wang (王朝阳 in Chinese). I am a first year Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, advised by Prof. Huaxiu Yao. My research interests mainly lie in the reasoning and alignment of Large Language Models (LLMs). And I'm currently working on agents, welcome to reach out if you have interests to collaborate. In my spare time, I'm always excited to learn more about MLSys and Computer System.

Previously, I worked on robustness and text generation issues of Natural Language Processing (NLP). I received my master's degree in Computer Science from Sun Yat-sen University in 2024, and my bachelor's degree in Computer Science from North China Electric Power University in 2021. I also spent wonderful time interning at Microsoft and WeChat AI in 2023.

Publications [ Google Scholar ] [ Full Publications ]

    Reasoning

  1. Preprint
    Efficient Long CoT Reasoning in Small Language Models
    Zhaoyang Wang, Jinqi Jiang, Tian Qiu, Hui Liu, Xianfeng Tang, Huaxiu Yao
    Arxiv Preprint 2025.
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  2. EMNLP 2023
    Democratizing Reasoning Ability: Tailored Learning from Large Language Model
    Zhaoyang Wang, Shaohan Huang, Yuxuan Liu, Jiahai Wang, Minghui Song, Zihan Zhang, Haizhen Huang, Furu Wei, et al.
    Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing.
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    3. Alignment

    Text Robustness

Experiences

  • Tencent/WeChat AI, Beijing, June 2023 - Sept 2023
    Research Intern, working on the RLHF stage of WeLM (a up to 60B LLM series) under the supervision of Liwen Zhu and Xiao Zhou.
  • Microsoft, Beijing, Jan 2023 - June 2023
    Research Intern, working on LLM Reasoning under the supervision of Shaohan Huang, Minghui Song and Zihan Zhang.


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