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Zhibo Hou

Ph.D. Student @ UC Merced | AI Researcher

I am a second year Ph.D. student in the EECS department at UC Merced, advised by Prof. Wan Du. My research explores LLM Post-Training and Reinforcement Learning, specifically investigating how human feedback (RLHF) and verifiable rewards (RLVR) can create more intelligent, trustworthy, and reason-oriented AI systems.

Up to , best movie I watch this year is 山河故人

Education

University of California, Merced

Ph.D. Student, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

(Ongoing)

Purdue University

Master of Science in Computer Engineering

Purdue University

Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering

Publications

ICLR 2026

Beyond Noisy-TVs: Noise-Robust Exploration Via Learning Progress Monitoring

Zhibo Hou, Zhiyu An, Wan Du

L4DC 2025

Disentangling Uncertainties by Learning Compressed Data Representation

Zhiyu An, Zhibo Hou, Wan Du

Academic Services

Conference Reviewer

AAAI 2026

Journal Reviewer

IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoT-J), since 2026

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