Yanming Wan 🇨🇳
Yanming Wan

PhD Student

About Me

I am a second-year PhD student of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington advised by Natasha Jaques. Before UW, I received my bachelor degree in Computer Science and Technology from YaoClass at Tsinghua University.

My primary research interest is to build AI models that can better understand human intentions and take actions in the real world.

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Interests
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Social Reinforcement Learning
  • Large Language Models
Education
  • PhD Computer Science

    University of Washington

  • BEng Computer Science and Technology

    IIIS, Tsinghua University

Recent Publications
(2025). Infer Human's Intentions Before Following Natural Language Instructions. AAAI.
(2024). Personalizing Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback with Variational Preference Learning. NeurIPS.
(2024). Toward a More Complete OMR Solution. ISMIR.
(2022). HandMeThat: Human-Robot Communication in Physical and Social Environments. NeurIPS Datasets and Benchmarks Track.