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Huaibo Chen

Ph.D. Candidate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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About

I am Huaibo (陈淮博), a PhD candidate at MIT with Prof. Kamal Youcef-Toumi. I am also a visiting student / research intern at MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, working closely with Dr. Zhang-Wei Hong and Dr. Prasanna Sattigeri. My current research focuses on large language models (LLMs), including online / continual learning and reinforcement learning for LLM agents.

Work Experience

  • MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab Mar. 2026 – Present

    Research Intern

    Online learning for LLM agents (NeurIPS 2026 TTCL Worksohp)

  • Futurewei Technologies Summer 2025

    Research Intern

    Benchmarking LLMs on ill-defined mathematical problems (COLM 2026)

  • Apple Inc. Summer 2024

    Machine Learning Engineer Intern

    Anomaly detection for time-series data

Education

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2021 – 2027 (expected)

    Joint Ph.D. in Statistics and Mechanical Engineering

    Coursework
    6.S978 AI Engineering and Agents
    6.8610 Natural Language Processing
    6.7960 Deep Learning
    6.7920 Reinforcement Learning
    6.7700 Fundamentals of Probability
    18.6501 Fundamentals of Statistics
    6.252 Nonlinear Optimization
    6.7230 Semidefinite Programming
    6.255 Optimization Methods
    6.7330 Numerical Methods for PDEs
    2.122 Stochastic Systems
    2.25 Fluid Mechanics

  • Tongji University, Shanghai, China 2016 – 2021

    B.Eng. in Automotive Engineering

    Nominated for the university's highest undergraduate honor (6 of 4,500+ students nominated; 3 ultimately selected)

Publication

Large Language Models

AI for Chemical Kinetics and Combustion (Before transition to LLM Research)