https://knmnyn.github.io/hugo-blox/tag/reasoning/ReasoningHugo Blox Builder (https://hugoblox.com)en-usFri, 08 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://knmnyn.github.io/hugo-blox/media/icon_hub1b49484bccf4f586453e7d2a784a896_225489_512x512_fill_lanczos_center_3.pnghttps://knmnyn.github.io/hugo-blox/tag/reasoning/https://knmnyn.github.io/hugo-blox/event/26-05-08-yuxi-defense/Fri, 08 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://knmnyn.github.io/hugo-blox/event/26-05-08-yuxi-defense/<p>Congratulations to <strong>Yuxi Xie</strong> on successfully defending her Ph.D. thesis, <strong>&ldquo;Closed Loop Scaling: Autonomous Improvement of LLM and VLM Reasoning&rdquo;</strong>, from WING!</p> <p>We wish her every success as she moves into her next chapter.</p> <p>Many thanks to her committee members, <strong>Zhiyong Huang</strong>, <strong>Anthony K. H. Tung</strong>, and <strong>See-Kiong Ng</strong>, and to her many collaborators, including <strong>Michael Shieh</strong>, <strong>Junxian He</strong>, and <strong>Kenji Kawaguchi</strong>.</p> <p>Special thanks as well to <strong>Prof. William Wang</strong> for hosting Yuxi at the University of California, Santa Barbara.</p>