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.
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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
L4DC 2025
Disentangling Uncertainties by Learning Compressed Data Representation
Academic Services
Conference Reviewer
AAAI 2026
Journal Reviewer
IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoT-J), since 2026