πŸ‘‹ Hi!

My name is Eric Jiang (ε§œζ±‰ζ™¨), and I am an incoming Statistics and Data Science PhD student (25 Fall) at UCLA, supervised by Prof. Kai-Wei Chang and Prof. Yingnian Wu.

I am open to any research collaboration and internship πŸ₯³! Feel free to contact me!

πŸ”Ž Current Research Topics

  • Reinforcement Learning: Robust RL, offline/online RL, Maximum Entropy, Policy Sampling, In-Context Learning
  • Large Language Models: Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback (RLHF), Trustworthy, Safety
  • Diffusion Models: Text-to-Image Stable Diffusion, Large Vision Langugage Model, Diffusion Sampling

πŸ”₯ News

  • 2025.06: Β πŸŽ‰πŸŽ‰ I graduated from University of California, Los Angeles with double degrees in Math of Computation and Statistics and Data Science
  • 2025.01: Β πŸŽ‰πŸŽ‰ I received the Graduate Dean’s Scholar Award (GDSA), awarded to the top 2 UCLA Statistics and Data Science PhD applicants (Top 1%).

πŸ“ Publications

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CARES: Comprehensive Evaluation of Safety and Adversarial Robustness in Medical LLMs

Sijia Chen, Xiaomin Li, Mengxue Zhang, Eric Hanchen Jiang, Qingcheng Zeng, Chen-Hsiang Yu

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Learning to Rank Chain-of-Thought: An Energy-Based Approach with Outcome Supervision

Eric Hanchen Jiang, Haozheng Luo, Shengyuan Pang, Xiaomin Li, Zhenting Qi, Hengli Li, Cheng-Fu Yang, Zongyu Lin, Xinfeng Li, Hao Xu, Kai-Wei Chang, Ying Nian Wu

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Seek in the Dark: Reasoning via Test-Time Instance-Level Policy Gradient in Latent Space

Hengli Li, Chenxi Li, Tong Wu, Xuekai Zhu, Yuxuan Wang, Zhaoxin Yu, Eric Hanchen Jiang, Song-Chun Zhu, Zixia Jia, Ying Nian Wu, Zilong Zheng

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πŸ“– Educations

  • 2022.06 - 2025.06, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
  • 2021.09 - 2022.06, Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech)

πŸŽ– Honors and Awards

  • 2025.09 Awarded Graduate Dean’s Scholar Award (GDSA), Amount: $14,500.
  • 2025.06 Awarded Cum Laude.