Yuxi Xie Defends Her Ph.D. Thesis on Closed-Loop Scaling
Yuxi Xie and her doctoral defense committee.Date
8 May, 2026
Event
Ph.D. Defense
Location
WING, NUS
13 Computing Drive, Singapore 117417, Singapore, 117417
Congratulations to Yuxi Xie on successfully defending her Ph.D. thesis, “Closed Loop Scaling: Autonomous Improvement of LLM and VLM Reasoning”, from WING!
We wish her every success as she moves into her next chapter.
Many thanks to her committee members, Zhiyong Huang, Anthony K. H. Tung, and See-Kiong Ng, and to her many collaborators, including Michael Shieh, Junxian He, and Kenji Kawaguchi.
Special thanks as well to Prof. William Wang for hosting Yuxi at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Min-Yen Kan
Associate Professor
WING lead; interests include Digital Libraries, Information Retrieval and Natural Language Processing.