Bowen Fang

Ph.D. Student at Columbia University.

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Ph.D. Student

School of Engineering and Applied Science

Columbia University

I am a Ph.D. student at Columbia University’s School of Engineering and Applied Science, where my research focuses on Reinforcement Learning and Autonomous Driving.

I hold an M.S. in Operations Research from Columbia University and a Bachelor in Big Data Management and Applications, minor in Economics from Peking University.

This website serves as a central hub for my publications, projects, and professional activities.

news

May 27, 2025 I will be starting my Applied Scientist Internship at AWS this summer!
May 20, 2025 I am honored to be a winner of the CS3 VALIDATE Accelerator program, which will provide continued funding for our work SINA.
Mar 06, 2025 Our paper, Efficient Consistency Model Training for Policy Distillation in Reinforcement Learning, was accepted to the ICLR 2025 DeLTa Workshop as a poster presentation.
Aug 01, 2024 I am excited to begin my Ph.D. studies at Columbia University.
Feb 12, 2024 Our paper, SLAMuZero: Plan and learn to Map for Joint SLAM and Navigation, was accepted to ICAPS 2024.

latest posts

selected publications

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    Efficient Consistency Model Training for Policy Distillation in Reinforcement Learning
    Bowen Fang and Xuan Di
    In ICLR 2025 Workshop on Deep Generative Model in Machine Learning: Theory, Principle and Efficacy, 2025
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    SLAMuZero: Plan and learn to Map for Joint SLAM and Navigation
    Bowen Fang, Xu Chen, Zhengkun Pan, and 1 more author
    In Proceedings of the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling, 2024
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    Learn to Tour: Operator Design For Solution Feasibility Mapping in Pickup-and-delivery Traveling Salesman Problem
    Bowen Fang, Xu Chen, and Xuan Di
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.11458, 2024
  4. TraveLLM: Could you plan my new public transit route in face of a network disruption?
    Bowen Fang, Zixiao Yang, Shukai Wang, and 1 more author
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.14926, 2024