Ziying Jia

About Me

I am a PhD student at University of Texas at Arlington, focusing on Reinforcement Learning. My work revolves around solving Last-Mile Delivery Problem using Robust Reinforcement Learning.

Research Interests

• Topic 1: Reinforcement Learning
• Topic 2: Robust Optimization
• Topic 3: Last-Mile Delivery

Publications

• [ICML'25] Pessimism Principle Can Be Effective: Towards a Framework for Zero-Shot Transfer Reinforcement Learning

  Chi Zhang, Ziying Jia, George K. Atia, Sihong He, Yue Wang

  arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.18447

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Education

• Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Texas at Arlington - 2029
• M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University - 2024
• B.E. in Electronic and Communication Engineering, City University of Hong Kong - 2022

Experience

• Teaching Assistant for CSE5311 Design and Analysis of Algorithms - University of Texas at Arlington (2025 Summer)
• Teaching Assistant for CSE5360 Artificial Intelligence I - University of Texas at Arlington (2025 Spring)
• Teaching Assistant for CSE4308 Artificial Intelligence - University of Texas at Arlington (2024 Fall)
• Research Assistant - City University of Hong Kong (2021 - 2022)
• Electrical Engineer Intern - Smart Mobility Company Limited (2021 - 2022)

Services

• ICML Workshop PRAL (2025)
• IEEE COINS (2025)
• IEEE Cloud Summit (2025)
• PAKDD Workshop Foundational AI for Pervasive Computing (2025)

Honors and Awards

• TA of the Month (May 2025)
• HKSAR Government Scholarship - Talent Development Scholarship (2021/22)
• HKSAR Government Scholarship - Reaching Out Award (2019/20)
• CityU Mainland Student Scholarship - Full Tuition Scholarship (2018 - 2022)

Contact

Email: zxj3060@mavs.uta.edu

LinkedIn: ziyingjia

Google Scholar: Ziying Jia

GitHub: jiaziying