Yongchang Hao 郝永昌

yongchanghao DOT w AT gmail DOT com

Education

• Ph.D. in Computing Science, University of Alberta, 2023 - Present
• M.Sc. in Computing Science, University of Alberta, 2021 - 2023
• B.E. in Computer Science and Technology, Soochow University, 2016 - 2020

Internships

• Machine Learning Research Intern, Netflix
  Los Gatos, Mar 2025 - Jun 2025
• Machine Learning Research Intern, Borealis AI
  Vancouver, May 2024 - Sep 2024
• Research Intern, Tencent AI Lab
  Shenzhen, Feb 2020 - Jun 2021
• Software Engineer Intern, Google
  Shanghai, Jul 2019 - Oct 2019

Teaching Experiences

• Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Alberta
  • [CMPUT 267] Basics of Machine Learning, 2024 Winter
  • [CMPUT 463/563] Probabilistic Graphical Models, 2022 Fall
  • [CMPUT 466/566] Machine Learning, 2022 Winter
  • [CMPUT 365] Reinforcement Learning I (An Introduction), 2021 Fall

Research Interests

• Machine Learning
• Natural Language Processing
• Reinforcement Learning

Selected Awards

• Jeffrey R Sampson Memorial Graduate Prize, 2023
• Alberta Graduate Excellence Scholarship, 2022, 2024
• Mary Louise Imrie Graduate Student Award, 2022
• Gold Medal, CCF-CCSP East China, 2019
• Silver Medal, ACM-ICPC Asia East Continent Final, 2018
• Gold Medal, ACM-ICPC Asia Regional, 2018