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About
I am a Senior Research Scientist at Salesforce Research and hold a Ph.D. in Machine Learning from the Georgia Institute of Technology, where I was advised by Prof. Mark Riedl.
Natural Language Generation Multimodal LLM RL Training Reasoning Deep Reinforcement Learning
Reach me at xiangyupeng1994@gmail.com
News
Aug 2025
🎉 Promoted to Senior Research Scientist at Salesforce Research.
Feb 2024
Began full-time role as Research Scientist at Salesforce Research.
Jan 2024
🎓 Successfully defended my dissertation.
Jul 2023
Paper accepted: Story Shaping: Teaching Agents Human-like Behavior with Stories at AIIDE-23.
May 2023
Research Intern at Microsoft Research.
May 2023
Passed thesis proposal.
Jan 2023
Paper accepted: Model Ensemble Instead Of Prompt Fusion at ICLR-23.
Oct 2022
Two papers accepted at Findings of EMNLP-22: Guiding Neural Story Generation with Reader Models and Inferring the Reader.
Sep 2022
Paper accepted: Inherently Explainable Reinforcement Learning in Natural Language at NeurIPS-22.
May 2022
Research Intern at Salesforce Research.
May 2021
PhD Intern at Salesforce, focusing on NLG research.
Apr 2021
Two papers accepted at the 3rd Workshop on Narrative Understanding, NAACL-21.
Oct 2020
Paper accepted: Reducing Non-Normative Text Generation from Language Models at INLG 2020.