😊 About me

Resume: Resume (Updated on 8 Oct, 2025)

Contact: vanzl3386 [at] gmail.com (preferred), vanzl [at] u.nus.edu, zhenglin.wan [at] ntu.edu.sg, 121090525 [at] link.cuhk.edu.cn

Zhenglin Wan (万政霖) received his B.Sc from Chinese University of Hong Kong on 2025 Fall. He is currently a research staff in Nanyang Technological University, advised by Prof. Bo An, and an incoming CS Ph.D student in Department of Computer Science, National University of Singapore (NUS). Previously, he spent a long time working with Prof. Ivor Tsang and collaborated with Prof. Ong Yew Soon at Centre for Frontier AI Research (CFAR), IHPC, A*STAR in Singapore.

I am a RL (Reinforcement Learning) believer. Previously I mainly studied improving RL or inverse RL from algorithmic side: such as improving the policy diversity (like EBC) and policy expressiveness (like GoRL). Recently, I am focusing on Agentic RL: RL to empower LLM agents with long-horizon human-like reasoning, planning and decision-making skills.

I am grateful to have received help and guidance for my career from so many people—such as Flint, David, Ivor, Bo, Xingrui, and many others. I also understand many truly talented students may not have the opportunities to reach their full potential. So, if you are an undergrad or master student and believe I could offer advice, information, or opportunities that might help with your career, feel free to reach out to me by email. Meanwhile, I am also a student mentor in CFAR, IHPC, A*STAR at Singapore. If you are interested in visiting or intern opportunities, you are welcomed to drop me an email for a chat.

Mentees (research-based, majority of them are co-mentored with scientists at CFAR, IHPC, A*STAR):

• Yaxin Zhou (Master's student @ CMU, America)
• Jingxuan Wu (Master's student @ UNC, America)
• Xu Pan (Master’s student @ Wuhan University)
• Chubin Zhang (Master’s student @ Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications)
• Dongchu Xie (Undergrad @ CUHK(SZ))
• Xin Yan (Undergrad @ Beijing Normal University)
• He Ma (Undergrad @ CUHK(SZ))

Besides, I am ALWAYS open to collaborations, networking and intern opportunities, feel free to contact me by email! (vanzl3386 [at] gmail.com)

🔥 News

📝 Selected Publications

Conference papers and Preprints

Please scroll down to view all publications.

Invention Patents

As these works are patented in China, all these names are directly translated from Chinese.

• A Method, System, Terminal Device, and Storage Medium for Air Quality Spatial Inference (Granted)

  Inventor: Jun Song, Yibo Xu, Yiwen Pan, Maohao Ran, Zhenglin Wan, Xiaoyun Yan, Yike Guo

• A Single-UAV Atmospheric Pollutant Source Tracing Method Based on Gradient Ascent and Physical Kinematics (Public)

  Inventor: Zhenglin Wan, Jun Song, Yibo Xu, Maohao Ran, Yike Guo

White Paper

As these works are presented in China, these names are directly translated from Chinese.

• White Paper on Cross-Border Economic Large Language Model

📖 Educations

• Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D)

  National University of Singapore (NUS)

  • Affiliation: Department of Computer Science, School of Computing
  • Advisor: TBD

  2026.01 -

  

• Bachelor of Science (B.Sc)

  The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)

  • 1-st class honor
  • Major: Statistics & Data Science, GPA: 3.85/4.0, Rank: 7%
  • Finished my undergraduate in CUHK-Shenzhen campus, while the degree is offered by CUHK.

  2021.09 - 2025.08

  

💻 Internships and Work Experiences

🎈 Services

• Reviewer of AAAI, ICLR, ICML, NeurIPS

🎖 Honors, Awards and Scholarships

• NUS Research Scholarship (approx. ￥250000/year plus full tuition fee subsidy, for entire Ph.D studies in NUS)

  Janurary 2026-

• 1-st class honor undergraduate student awarded by The Chinese University of Hong Kong

  August 2025

• Yearly Academic Scholarship: B Class (for GPA Top 3%, ￥40000)
  September 2024

• Yearly Academic Scholarship: C Class (for GPA Top 5%, ￥20000)
  September 2023

• Yearly Dean List Award (Outstanding 1-st class Performance)
  Consecutive three years: September 2022 - September 2025

• Diligentia Bowen Scholarship (Undergraduate Admission Scholarship, ￥120000)

  September 2021

• Zhejiang Guolong Inspirational Scholarship (Undergraduate Admission Scholarship, ￥120000)
  September 2021

• 1st-Prize in Chinese Mathematics Olympiad (CMO)-Chongqing Province

  September 2019

💬 Press/Media

White Paper

• The co-author of the first White Paper on Cross-Border Economic Large Language Model in Shenzhen, China. 深圳卫视：深圳发布首个跨境经济大模型白皮书

Miscellaneous

• In my spare time, I’m an music enthusiast. I’ve been playing guitar for more than 10 years and began teaching myself the piano when I was 15. During my undergraduate, I played music in two bands: “Minor Blue” and “Major Pink.” See our photos:

• I am also a 15-years chess player, with the honor of “National Level-3 Athlete”. I love the process of comprehensive planning, logical-thinking and reasoning. Visit my Lichess profile.

• I love play basketball 🏀. Sports makes me energetic.

• I play video games like League of Legends, where I achieved the “diamond” level as my historically highest honor. I also play 3A games like Elden Ring, Dark Souls, Nier Automata, and elder scrolls.

• I have a deep interest in philosophy of mind, particularly Buddhism and Taoism, as paths to explore the fundamental nature of human existence. I am also intrigued by the potential integration of these philosophical insights with modern artificial intelligence.