Qi Wang (王琦)

Qi WANG (王琦)

D.Eng. Candidate, MoE Key Lab of Artificial Intelligence, AI Institute, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Eastern Institute for Advanced Study

Research Interest | Education | Publications | Projects | Honors and Awards | Activities and Volunteering | Invited Talks and Lives

Email: qiwang067@sjtu.edu.cn (prior) qiwang068@gmail.com wangqi194@mails.ucas.edu.cn
Google Scholar | GitHub || ZhiHu | Twitter

Research Interest

I work in the field of Reinforcement learning, Computer vision, Deep learning, and Machine learning. Currently, I focus on the following research topics:

Visual reinforcement learning
Model-based reinforcement learning
Offline reinforcement learning

Education

2022.09-2026.06 D.Eng. in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Shanghai Jiao Tong University (Also as a joint student in the Eastern Institute for Advanced Study), supervised by Xiaokang Yang (IEEE Fellow, Winner of National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars/国家杰青), Wenjun Zeng (IEEE Fellow), and I also work closely with Yunbo Wang, and Xin Jin.
2019.09-2022.07 M.E. in the Shenyang Institute of Computing Technology at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. GPA 3.81/4.0.

Publications

Journals:

[1] Qi Wang, Liaomo Zheng, Shiyu Wang, Xinjun Liu, Wei Guo, 'A Robotic Arm Pose Estimation Method Based on Lightweight Stacked Hourglass Network,' Journal of Chinese Computer Systems, 2021. (CCF B Chinese Recommended Journal, Chinese Core)

Conferences:

[2] Qi Wang , Liaomo Zheng, Shiyu Wang, Xinjun Liu, 'Lightweight Stacked Hourglass Network for Efficient Robotic Arm Pose Estimation,' IEEE International Conference on Computer and Communications (ICCC), 2021. (EI, Best Presentation Award)

[1] Liaomo Zheng, Xiaojie Wang, Qi Wang , Shiyu Wang, Xinjun Liu, 'A Fabric Defect Detection Method Based on Improved YOLOv5,' IEEE International Conference on Computer and Communications (ICCC), 2021. (EI)

Book:

[2] Yang Li, Qi Wang, Junjun Liu, Chen Li, 'A Practical Guide to Getting Started with Deep Reinforcement Learning', 2024. (Preprint, Officially Recommended by Hugging Face). [WeChat] [Zhihu] [Bilibili] [Xiaohongshu]

[1] Qi Wang, Yiyuan Yang, Ji Jiang, 'Easy RL: Reinforcement Learning Tutorial' (Easy RL：强化学习教程), Posts & Telecom Press, 2022. (Excellent book for 2022 Q1th in PTP, Bestselling New Book of the 2022 in PTP Epubit, Reported by Zhejiang Satellite TV/浙江卫视). This book is recommended by many famous reinforcement learning experts, such as Hung-yi Lee (Professor at Taiwan University), Shengbo Li (Professor at Tsinghua University), Jun Wang (Professor at UCL), Bolei Zhou (Assistant Professor at UCLA), etc. [GitHub Repo] [Online version] [E-book] [Douban] [Taobao] [Dangdang] [Jingdong]

Patents:

[3] Xiaokang Yang, Yunbo Wang, Qi Wang, Wendong Zhang, 'A Reinforcement Learning System for Multi-Task Long-Horizon Decision Making in Robotic Arms', Chinese invention patent, application number: 202311639982.4.

[2] Qi Wang, Lunxing Li, Shiyu Wang, Xinjun Liu, Xiaojie Wang, Yuhu Han, 'A Robotic Arm Pose Estimation Method Based on Lightweight Stacked Hourglass Network', Chinese invention patent, application number: 202110269893.X.

[1] Qiang Zhang, Qi Wang, Dongyang Dou, Peng Qi, Shiyu Wang, Xiaojie Wang, Xinjun Liu, Yuhu Han , 'A Robotic Arm Pose Estimation Method Based on Lightweight Stacked Hourglass Network', Chinese invention patent, application number: 202110269893.X.

Projects

Open-Source Projects:

LeeDL-Tutorial: A Chinese deep learning tutorial and it has already received 9,600 more stars and 2,500 more forks on GitHub, which includes an an e-book and codes (Recommended by Hung-yi Lee). [Twitter]
Easy-RL: A reinforcement learning tutorial and it has already received 8,100 more stars and 1,700 forks on GitHub, which includes an e-book and an online tutorial. Also, there is an online tutorial collaboration with Baidu PaddlePaddle AI Studio (1k more participants). Here are some links of our book. [Douban] [Taobao] [Dangdang] [Jingdong]
Our book topped the list of computer new books on Dangdang and the list of AI-field New books on Jingdong within ten days. The number of related tweets reads exceeded 100,000, and it was recommended to the libraries of the North China Electric Power University, Shanghai Ocean University, SIGS at Tsinghua University. Also, it is included in the National Library of China, Library of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Library of Tsinghua University, Library of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Library of Zhejiang University, and Library of University of Science and Technology of China, and so on. The electronic version has been downloaded over 10,000 times, and the paper version won the PTP key book selection and Excellent book for 2022 Q1th in PTP.
Translated articles in the field of data science are as follows. [This Is How Reinforcement Learning Works ] [Build PyTorch Models Easily Using torchlayers] [Automated Machine Learning: How do teams work together on an AutoML project? ] [What are Python Iterators and Generators? Programming Concepts Every Data Science Professional Should Know] [A Gentle Introduction to Ensemble Learning] [A Gentle Introduction to Computational Learning Theory] [Decision Tree Algorithm With Hands On Example] [Fundamentals of Deep Learning – Activation Functions and When to Use Them?] [5 Techniques to Prevent Overfitting in Neural Networks] [4 Ways to Address Gender Bias in AI] [SVP：An efficient data selection method for deep learning]
More open-source contents can be found on my GitHub.

Research Projects:

2023, Teaching assistant of JCCX0021: Fundamentals of Artificial intelligence, Shanghai Jiaotong University.
2021, Teaching assistant of Pietro Liò, the professor of the University of Cambridge, UK. He is also the member of the Academia Europaea (欧洲科学院院士). The class name is Reinforcement Learning.
2020, Teaching assistant of Yiyu Shi, the professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame UIUC, USA. The class name is Deep Learning for Embedded Systems.
2020, Teaching assistant of Rakesh Kumar, the professor of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the UIUC, USA. The class name is Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Beginners.
2019, Teaching assistant of Francis Steen, the professor of the UCLA, USA. The class name is Multimodal Communication and Artificial Intelligence.

Honors and Awards

2023, Outstanding Authors and Translators for the 70th Anniversary, Posts & Telecom Press, 2023.[Certification]
2023, National Second Prize,"Optics Valley Of China·Huawei Cup" The 19th China Post-Graduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling, with faculty advisor Xiaofeng Gao (Professor at SJTU).
2023, Author of 2022 Bestselling New Book and Influential Author, Epubit, PTPress.[Link][Picture1][Picture2] [Trophy1] [Certification1] [Trophy2] [Certification2]
2022, 'ZhiZhuo Honor' of Datawhale. [ZhiZhuo]
2022, Excellent Book's Author for 2022 Q1th in PTP, China. [Picture]
2020, Excellent Undergraduate Thesis of Jiangsu Province.
2019, First Prize, Undergraduate Excellent Graduation Thesis (Top 0.5%).
2018, International Second Prize, Asia and Pacific Mathematical Contest in Modeling (APMCM).
2017, National Second Prize, Chinese College Students Computer Design Contest.
2017, Provincial Second Prize, "Challenge Cup" Jiangsu Province Selection Competition.

Activities and Volunteering

2024.01, Host of AI Institute of Shanghai Jiao Tong University's year-end party.
2023.05-Now, Intel Edge Innovator (英特尔边缘计算创新大使), promotion of Intel-related technologies. [Trophy1] [Trophy2]
2023.04-Now, Hugging Face volunteer, translating high-quality articles in the Hugging Face.
2022.10-Now, AI Time volunteer, AI Time Shanghai Jiao Tong University Club President, sharing the AI future and recent researches.
2022.10-2023.03, excellent volunteer, Academic Division of the Graduate Student UNION of Shanghai Jiaotong University, organizing related academic activities and sharing.
2022.10-2023.03, excellent volunteer, Academic Division of the Graduate Student UNION of the School of Electronic Information and Electrical Engineering, Shanghai Jiaotong University, organizing related academic activities and sharing. [Certification]
2022.09-Now, class president of the doctoral class, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
2020.05-Now, Datawhale member (an open-source AI organization), helped data science fans get involved in the AI community.
2019.11-Now, Datapi THU volunteer, translating cutting edge articles related to AI.

Invited Talks and Lives

2024.04, PhD Debate on Mamba and its variants in the AI Time. [Bilibili][WeChat][XiaoYuZhou] [Zhipu AI Assistant]
2023.07, ChatGPT and reinforcement learning sharing, and a book signing of Easy-RL book in the Global AI Developer Conference (WAIC, 世界人工智能大会). [Link1] [Picture1] [Picture2] [Picture3]
2023.04, Research in the era of large models sharing, CVPR 2023 Pre-Seminar (Shanghai Jiao Tong University Speical Session) in the AI Time. [Link1] [Link2]
2023.03, ChatGPT and reinforcement learning sharing, Doctoral Forum for Electrical Discipline of Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Fudan University. [Second Prize for Sharing] [Link]
2023.02, ChatGPT and reinforcement learning sharing, and a book signing of Easy-RL book in the Global AI Developer Conference (GAIDC, 全球人工智能开发者先锋大会). [Shanghai Release WeChat Official Account, 上海发布微信公众号] [Link2] [Link3] [Picture1] [Picture2] [Picture3]
2022.12, Experience Sharing for 2022 in the Datawhale. [Link]
2022.11, An online tutorial collaboration with Baidu PaddlePaddle AI Studio. [Link1] [Link2] [Picture1] [Picture2]
2022.09, A live stream about Open Source in the AI Time. [Video] [Link1] [Link2] [Picture1] [Picture2]
2022.06, Bilibili Programmers read classic IT books. [Link] [Video1] [Video2] [Video3] [Picture]
2022.06, How to grow from beginner to AI engineer, Datawhale. [Bilibili]
2022.05, Experience of learning reinforcement learning sharing, OSCHINA. [Link]
2022.05, Easy-RL book sharing, SICT, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. [Link]
2022.05, Graduate interview/story, SICT, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. [Link]
2022.05, WeChat Media Platform "Gu-Yue-Ju" Easy-RL book live sharing. [Link1] [Link2] [Picture]
2022.05, "Bright Top" Forum Easy-RL book live sharing.
2022.04, Easy-RL book live sharing with Posts and Telecommunications Press. [Link1] [Link2] [Link3] [Link4] [Link5] [Link6] [Link7] [Link8] [Link9] [Link10] [Link11] [Link12] [Link13] [Link14] [Link15] [Link16] [Link17] [Link18] [Link19] [Link20] [Picture1] [Picture2] [Picture3] [Picture4] [Picture5] [Picture6] [Picture7] [Picture8] [Picture9] [Picture10] [Picture11] [Picture12]