Biography

I am a first-year Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at Tsinghua University, under the supervision of Prof. Hongning Wang. I am also currently interning at Zhipu AI.

My research primarily focuses on LLM RL, with a particular interest in Agentic RL and how to enhance LLMs to effectively perform tasks in real-world environments. Beyond research, I am also passionate about open-source contributions and am actively working on LLM RL infrastructure projects(e.g. slime, sglang).

My past research experience includes working as a research intern at the Shanghai AI Lab. I also served as a research assistant at HKU, under the supervision of Prof. Difan Zou. In addition, I had a visiting research student at KAUST, where I worked with Dr. Guohao Li and Prof. Bernard Ghanem.

If you would like to get in touch with me, feel free to reach out via my email: xiechengxing34@gmail.com or via WeChat.

Open-Source Contribution

  • Core contributor of GLM 4.5 (Technical Report)
  • Main contributor of slime (A LLM post-training framework aiming for RL Scaling. Repository)
  • Contributor of Sglang (Primarily working on RL-related features. Repository)

Education

  • Doctor of Philosophy (August 2025 – Now)
    College AI, Tsinghua University.
    Supervised by Prof. Hongning Wang.

  • Bachelor (September 2021 – June 2025)
    School of Computer Science and Technology, Xidian University, Xi’an, China.

Selected Publication