Tianwei Ni
PHD Candidate
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolTianwei Ni is a PhD candidate at Mila specializing in history-dependent reinforcement learning, with nine years of research experience across top AI labs and academia. He develops memory-aware agents and representations that improve adaptability, drawing on internships at AWS (working on LLM reasoning for agents) and AI2’s embodied AI group. His background includes graduate work and teaching at Carnegie Mellon and visiting research at Stanford, giving him strong foundations in both theory and applied RL. Tianwei’s trajectory spans human-agent teaming, imitation learning, and medical vision, indicating a willingness to cross domains to test ideas. Actively positioning for research scientist roles in 2026, he blends deep academic rigor with hands-on systems experience in deploying agent and LLM reasoning prototypes. His work suggests a rare combination of long-horizon memory modeling and practical engineering on cutting-edge agent architectures.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma (Honorary Graduate), High School Diploma (Honorary Graduate) at Shanghai High SchoolDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Université de MontréalBachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Peking UniversityMaster's degree, Machine Learning, Master's degree, Machine Learning at Carnegie Mellon UniversityNo degree, Visiting Student, No degree, Visiting Student at Stanford University
Chinese, wu chinese, English
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Github Skills (63)
colorize10
visual-studio-code10
pytorch10
electron10
microsoft10
autocomplete10
typescript10
sac10
recurrent-neural-networks10
vscode-extension10
editor10
reinforcement-learning10
tensorboard10
latex10
visual-studio10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
twni2016/twni2016.github.io
Mar 2017 - Sep 2018
Contributions:142 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
twni2016/OrganSegRSTN_PyTorch
Jul 2018 - Dec 2021
Contributions:22 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 5 months
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