Yiran (Jenny) Shen

Across these directions, I develop methods that help agents:

• Infer user intent through interaction and translate it into scalable reward and evaluation signals
• Learn and be evaluated on tasks where success is hard to verify automatically
• Coordinate in multi-agent settings via reinforcement learning for better human-agent and agent-agent collaboration

I previously interned at Alibaba Tongyi Lab with Dr. Liuyi Yao, working on role-play agents and reasoning. Before UCSD, I completed my Master’s in Interdisciplinary Data Science at 💙 Duke University, working with Prof. Brandon T. Fain and Prof. Bruce W. Rogers, and received my Bachelor’s degree from the 🇦🇺 University of Melbourne in Economics and Finance with a minor in Statistics.