Yuning Chen
Meta

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Email: ychen372 [at] ucmerced.edu


I'm a research scientist at Meta, working on agentic post-training, with a focus on stepwise reward assignment and recursive self-evolving capability.

I obtained my Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (2025) from the University of California, Merced and B.Eng. in Software Engineering (2021) from Tsinghua University.

May 2025
I passed my Ph.D. dissertation defense and start full-time working at Meta.
May 2024
MARLP (predictive control with causal + Transformer) was accepted to KDD 2024.
Feb 2024
CloudEval-YAML (eval system for LLM cloud config generation) was accepted to MLSys 2024.
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Professional Experiences

Meta 

Research Scientist, Meta
May. 2025 - Present, Bellevue, WA

ByteDance 

Software Engineer Intern, ByteDance
May. 2024 - Aug. 2024, San Jose, CA

Alibaba Cloud 

Research Intern, Alibaba Cloud U.S.
May. 2023 - Aug. 2023, Sunnyvale, CA


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