I am a second year Computer Science PhD student at USC, advised by Volkan Ustun and William Swartout. My research focuses on agentic AI in multi-agent environments, aiming to bridge the gap between humans and artificial agents to foster a collaborative future where both can thrive. I currently explore autonomous agent systems powered by large language models, cooperative and competitive multi-agent learning, human-AI teaming and collaborative intelligence, and modeling human preferences in reinforcement learning and sequential decision-making.
Prior to joining USC, I worked a year as a Software Engineer at Bubble.io, where I developed LLM-Agents for LCNC interactive web development. I also conducted research in machine learning and robotics during my master's at Columbia University's Creative Machines Lab advised by Hod Lipson.
Preprints
X-Ego: Acquiring Team-Level Tactical Situational Awareness via Cross-Egocentric Contrastive Video Representation Learning
Yunzhe Wang,Soham Hans,Volkan UstunPreprint
Individualized Cognitive Simulation in Large Language Models: Evaluating Different Cognitive Representation Methods
Tianyi Zhang,Xiaolin Zhou,Yunzhe Wang,Erik Cambria,David Traum,Rui MaoPreprint
Recent Publications
Learning Realistic Lip Motions for Humanoid Face Robots
Yuhang Hu,Jiong Lin,Judah Allen Goldfeder,Philippe M. Wyder,Yifeng Cao,Steven Tian,Yunzhe Wang,Jingran Wang,Mengmeng Wang,Jie Zeng,Cameron Mehlman,Yingke Wang,Delin Zeng,Boyuan Chen,Hod LipsonScience Robotics 2026
Implicit Behavioral Alignment of Language Agents in High-Stakes Crowd Simulations
Yunzhe Wang,Gale M. Lucas,Burcin Becerik-Gerber,Volkan UstunEMNLP 2025
A Data-Driven Discretized CS:GO Simulation Environment to Facilitate Strategic Multi-Agent Planning Research
Yunzhe Wang,Volkan Ustun,Chris McGroartyWSC 2025
Reconfigurable Robot Identification from Motion Data
Yuhang Hu,Yunzhe Wang,Ruibo Liu,Zhou Shen,Hod LipsonIROS 2024
Human-Robot Facial Co-expression
Yuhang Hu,Boyuan Chen,Jiong Lin,Yunzhe Wang,Yingke Wang,Cameron Mehlman,Hod LipsonScience Robotics 2024
Route Optimization in Service of a Search and Rescue Artificial Social Intelligence Agent
Yunzhe Wang,Nikolos Gurney,Jincheng Zhou,David V. Pynadath,Volkan UstunAAAI-FSS 2021
Services
Technical Program Committee (TPC) Member/Reviewer
- International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2025, 2026
- Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2025, 2026
- Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) 2025
- International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS) 2025, 2026
- Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2026
- IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence 2025
- IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Natural Language Processing and Social Media (CINLPSoMe) 2025
- IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) 2025
- IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP) 2025, 2026
- Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2024 Workshop Foundation Models for Science







