Miao Lu

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About Me

Welcome to my homepage! I am a Ph.D. student of the Department of Management Science and Engineering (MS&E) at Stanford University, majoring in Operations Research. Prior to that, I obtained my Bachelor's degree in Probability and Statistics from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), where I won the Guo Moruo scholarship, the highest honor awarding undergraduates of USTC.

Research Interests

My ultimate goal of research is to (i) develop the theoretical foundations of the next generation artificial intelligence (AI) techniques and (ii) make the best use of AI to effectively address challenging managerial and societal problems.

Contact Information

E-mail addresses: miaolu@stanford.edu, lumiao@mail.ustc.edu.cn

Here are my [Google Scholar] [GitHub] [LinkedIn] [CV]

Recent News

(Oct. 2024) I am presenting our work ‘‘Distributionally Robust Reinforcement Learning with Interactive Data Collection: Fundamental Hardness and Near-Optimal Algorithm’’ at INFORMS 2024. See you at Seattle!

(Sep. 2024) Our two papers (distributionally robust RL with interactive data collection and provably mitigating overoptimization in RLHF) are accepted to Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2024.

Selected Publications