CV
Basics
| Name | Guangchen (Eric) Lan |
| lan44@purdue.edu | |
| Phone | +1 (917) 371-1980 |
| Url | https://ericglan.github.io/ |
| Summary | A PhD candidate at Purdue University, working on AI research. |
Work
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2025.08 - 2025.11 Seattle, WA
Amazon
Applied Scientist Intern
☕️ Mentor: Dr. Lian Xiong, Dr. Binxuan Huang, Dr. Lihong Li
🚀 Topic: Reinforcement Learning with Rubric Rewards for LLMs.
- TBD
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2025.03 - 2025.05 Redmond, WA
Microsoft Research
Research Scientist Intern
☕️ Mentor: Dr. Huseyin A. Inan, Dr. Robert Sim
🚀 Topic: LLM Agent Safety via Reasoning & Reinforcement Learning.
- Contextual Integrity in LLMs via Reasoning and Reinforcement Learning. NeurIPS 2025.
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2024.05 - 2024.08 Bellevue, WA
Tencent America
Research Scientist Intern at Tencent AI Lab
☕️ Mentor: Dr. Xiaoman Pan, Dr. Hongming Zhang, Dr. Dong Yu
🚀 Topic: RLHF for LLM & Diffusion Alignment.
- Bridging SFT and DPO for Diffusion Model Alignment with Self-Sampling Preference Optimization. TMLR.
Education
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2022.08 - 2026.06 West Lafayette, IN
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2020.07 - 2022.02 New York, NY
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2019.06 - 2020.07 Berkeley, CA
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2016.08 - 2020.07 Xi'an, CN
Academic
| Reviewer | |
| NeurIPS 2025, 2024 (Top Reviewer) | |
| ICLR 2024-2026 | |
| ICML 2025 | |
| ICCV 2025 | |
| AISTATS 2024 - 2026 | |
| AAAI 2024 - 2026 | |
| IEEE Global Communications Conference 2023 | |
| Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR) | |
| IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS) | |
| IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing | |
| IEEE Transactions on Networking | |
| IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing | |
| IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (Reinforcement Learning track) | |
| IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing (Reinforcement Learning track) |
Awards
- 2025
Purdue Graduate Student Government Grant
Purdue University
- 2025
ICLR Grant
ICLR
- 2024
NeurIPS Top Reviewer
NeurIPS
- 2023
NeurIPS Scholar Award
NeurIPS
- 2020
Nikola Tesla Electrical Engineering Scholarship
Columbia University
- 2020
Honor Student (Top 0.3%)
Xi’an Jiaotong University
- 2019
- 2017, 2018
National Scholarship (The highest honor of undergraduate students in China)
Xi’an Jiaotong University
Projects
- 2021.10 - 2023.04
ElegantRL
ElegantRL implements several model-free deep reinforcement learning (DRL) algorithms as the DRL agent layer for FinRL.
- Core Contributor
Skills
| Programming Languages | |
| Python | |
| C/C++ | |
| JavaScript/TypeScript | |
| HTML/CSS | |
| Solidity | |
| MATLAB | |
| LaTex |
| Tools | |
| VERL | |
| PyTorch | |
| TensorFlow | |
| Ray/RLlib | |
| Sklearn | |
| NumPy | |
| Pandas | |
| MySQL | |
| MongoDB | |
| Git/GitHub | |
| Unix/Linux Shell | |
| Docker | |
| AWS | |
| Azure | |
| Google Cloud | |
| Hugging Face | |
| DeepSpeed | |
| Megatron-LM | |
| FSDP |
Languages
| English | |
| Bilingual |
| Mandarin Chinese 中文 | |
| Native |
| Korean 한국어 | |
| Elementary |
| Spanish Español | |
| Elementary |
Interests
| casual | |
| Chess (Provincial Silver Medal) | |
| Board Games | |
| Powerlifting (PR: Deadlift 445 lbs.) | |
| Bodybuilding | |
| Skiing | |
| Hiking |