Shangshang Wang

PhD @ USC | Intern @ Qwen

Los Angeles, California, United States

About

CS Phd student at USC Viterbi. CS undergrad, master at ShanghaiTech. Currently interested in LLM Reasoning, RL, and AI4Science. More at https://shangshang-wang.github.io/

Experience

  • Research Intern at Qwen
    Mar 2026 - Present · 4 mos

    Large-scale, stable, and efficient agentic RL for large language models. Host: Guoyin Wang (Qwen Pilot Team), Hao Zhou (Qwen 3.7 Team)

  • Research Intern at Bespoke Labs
    Dec 2025 - Feb 2026 · 3 mos

    Agentic RL post-training acceleration via reward/environment curation. Host: Mahesh Sathiamoorthy, Alex Dimakis, Greg Durrett, Shreyas Pimpalgaonkar

  • Student Researcher at BluelightAI
    Jun 2025 - Aug 2025 · 3 mos

    Pre-training cross-layer transcoders over reasoning models and interpret model internals. Hosts: John Carlsson, Gunnar Carlsson, Jakob Hansen

  • Head Teaching Assistant at ShanghaiTech University
    Feb 2021 - Jul 2024 · 3 yrs 6 mos

    Six-semester as a head TA for undergraduate Probability course and graduate RL course. Host: Ziyu Shao