π Hi!
My name is Eric Jiang (ε§ζ±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 π₯³! Feel free to contact me!
π 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
π₯ News
- 2025.06: Β ππ I graduated from University of California, Los Angeles with double degrees in Math of Computation and Statistics and Data Science
- 2025.01: Β ππ I received the Graduate Deanβs Scholar Award (GDSA), awarded to the top 2 UCLA Statistics and Data Science PhD applicants (Top 1%).
π Publications

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

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

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
π Educations
- 2022.06 - 2025.06, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
- 2021.09 - 2022.06, Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech)
π Honors and Awards
- 2025.09 Awarded Graduate Deanβs Scholar Award (GDSA), Amount: $14,500.
- 2025.06 Awarded Cum Laude.