PhD Student in Computer Science
Haoyu (Jacob) He
I study web agents, online reinforcement learning, and world models, with an emphasis on how agents learn from and interact with simulated environments.
About
I'm a PhD student in Computer Science at the University of Georgia, advised by Prof. Zhen Xiang.
Before starting my PhD, I worked at the World Wildlife Fund on LLM applications and environmental data systems. I previously studied Statistics at Columbia University and Mathematics at the University of Michigan.
Research
Web agents and online RL
Learning and evaluating agents that interact with web environments.
World models and agent data
Studying how agents learn and use representations of their environments.
Education
PhD in Computer ScienceUniversity of Georgia · 2025–present
MA in StatisticsColumbia University · 2022–2023
BS in MathematicsUniversity of Michigan, Ann Arbor · 2018–2022