Undergraduate Student
Echols Scholar
School of Arts and Science
University of Virginia
Email: clairechen AT email DOT virginia DOT edu

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Biography

Claire Chen is an undergraduate student in the School of Arts and Science at the University of Virginia, nominated as an Echols Scholar. She works as a research assistant advised by Professor Shangtong Zhang. Her research interest is in Reinforcement Learning. She regularly serves on the Program Committee in major AI venues, e.g., AISTATS, AMMAS.

Publications

• Efficient Policy Evaluation with Safety Constraint for Reinforcement Learning.
  Claire Chen*, Shuze Liu*, Shangtong Zhang.
  International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2025.

• Doubly Optimal Policy Evaluation for Reinforcement Learning.
  Shuze Liu, Claire Chen, Shangtong Zhang.
  International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2025.

• Efficient Multi-Policy Evaluation for Reinforcement Learning.
  Shuze Liu, Claire Chen, Shangtong Zhang.
  AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2025.
  Oral Presentation

Program Committee

AISTATS 2025, AMMAS 2025.

Guest Lecture

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (Fall 2024).

Grant

Ingrassia Family Research Grant.