Yuan Zhuang 庄元

I am a PhD student in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Connecticut, advised by Prof. Fei Miao. I received my M.S. in Data Science from the University of Pennsylvania and my B.Eng. in Ocean Engineering and Technology from Zhejiang University. My research focuses on large language models, mixture of experts, reinforcement learning, and robotics. I am currently seeking full-time opportunities; please feel free to contact me if my background may be a fit for an opening.

Yuan Zhuang standing by a lake with mountains in the background

Research

Selected Research

2026 Preprint

Low-Rank Adaptation for Critic Learning in Off-Policy Reinforcement Learning

Yuan Zhuang*, Yuexin Bian*, Sihong He, Jie Feng, Qing Su, Songyang Han, Jonathan Petit, Shihao Ji, Yuanyuan Shi, Fei Miao

2026 ICLR

LD-MoLE: Learnable Dynamic Routing for Mixture of LoRA Experts

Yuan Zhuang*, Yi Shen*, Yuexin Bian, Qing Su, Shihao Ji, Yuanyuan Shi, Fei Miao

2025 IROS

YOLO-MARL: You Only LLM Once for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

Yuan Zhuang*, Yi Shen*, Zhili Zhang, Yuxiao Chen, Fei Miao

Work Experience

Internships

May 2026 - Aug 2026 Redmond, WA

Microsoft

Research Intern

Mixture of Experts, Test-Time Training.

May 2025 - Aug 2025 Beijing, China

JD.com

Research Intern

Vision Language Action Models (VLA).

Contact

Open to Full-Time Roles and Research Collaboration