About Me

I'm a currently enrolled Ph.D. student at the VITA group at the University of Texas at Austin under the supervision of Dr. Zhangyang (Atlas) Wang. I obtained my Bachelor's degree from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT) in June 2018. From August 2018 to December 2020, I worked as a research assistant with professor Nuria González Prelcic in UT. My current research interests include symbolic reasoning, graph neural networks, transformers, reinforcement learning and second order optimization. Here is my [CV].

Interests

  • Symbolic Reasoning
  • Transformers
  • Graph Neural Networks
  • Second Order Optimization (Learning to Optimize)
  • Reinforcement Learning

Education

  • The University of Texas at Austin
    M.S. in Engineering, Aug. 2018 - Dec.2020
    Ph.D., Dec. 2020 - present

  • Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
    B.Eng. in Communications Engineering, Sept. 2014 - Jun. 2018

Professional Experience

  • Research Assistant, Visual Informatics Group, the University of Texas at Austin
    • Advisor: Dr. Zhangyang (Atlas) Wang
    • Research topics include:
      • Learning to Optimize: deliver faster and better optimizer for deep neural networks through back-propogate through the optimization procedure and find optimal optimizer in a data driven way.
      • Transformers: leverage the sequence modeling power of transformers in graph modeling/reinforcement learning.
      • Graph Networks: develop efficient graph models that scales and generalize.
  • Applied Science Research Intern, Amazon A9
    • Cold-start graph embedding learning for recommendation systems: first pretrain a graph model to generate versatile node embeddings using self-supervised learning, then learn a student model that is able to generalize to strict-cold-start nodes.
    • Manager/Mentor(s): Dr. Nikhil Rao, Dr. Sumeet Katariya, Dr. Eddie Huang
  • Research Assistant, WSIL Group, the University of Texas at Austin
    • Estimate user device position through 5G millimeter wave signal, using compressive sensing (Orthogonal Mathing Pursuit) and deep learning (ConvNets, swarm based learning to optimize) approaches.
    • Advisor: Dr. Nuria González Prelcic
  • Research Intern, GEIRI North America
    • Train a Soft Actor-Critic agent to manage large scale power grid: embed the huge discrete geometric actionsinto continuous space; using Graph Neural Networks as preprocessing; Monte-Carlo Tree search as efficientexploration
    • Mentor: Dr. Jiajun Duan
  • Research Assistant, UWC Lab, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
    • Signal processing for wireless communications (Doppler spread estimation)
    • Advisor: Dr. Wenjun Xu

Publications

AutoGAN
Delayed Propagation Transformer: A Universal Computation Engine
towards Practical Control in Cyber-Physical Systems
Wenqing Zheng, Qiangqiang Guo, Hao Yang, Peihao Wang,
Zhangyang Wang, Accepted by NeurIPS 2021.

AutoGAN
Blind Image Blur Assessment Based on Markov-Constrained FCM and
Blur Entropy
Yaqian Xu, Wenqing Zheng, Jingchen Qi, Qi Li, 2019 IEEE International
Conference on Image Processing (ICIP). IEEE, 2019: 4519-4523.

EnlightenGAN
5G V2X communication at millimeter wave: rate maps and use cases
W. Zheng, A. Ali, N. González-Prelcic, R. W. Heath Jr., A. Klautau, and
E. Moradi Pari, 2020 IEEE 91st Vehicular Technology Conference
(VTC2020). IEEE, 2020: 1-5.

PS-GAN
Joint Position, Orientation and Channel Estimation in Hybrid
mmWave MIMO Systems
Wenqing Zheng, Nuria González-Prelcic, 2019 53rd Asilomar Conference
on Signals, Systems, and Computers. IEEE, 2019: 1453-1458.

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