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General Information

Name Wenya Xie
Pronouns she/her
Location Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

Education

  • 2025.1-now
    PhD
    University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
  • 2017.9 - 2021.6
    Bachelar
    Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

Experience

  • 2026.5 - present
    Machine Learning Engineer Intern
    Adobe Inc., San Jose, CA, USA
  • 2025.1 - now
    Research Assistant
    University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
  • 2023.6 - 2024.9
    Research Assistant
    Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China
  • 2021.7 - 2023.6
    Software Engineer
    OPPO, Shenzhen, China

Academic Interests

  • Reasoning & Overthinking
    • Why reasoning models waste decoding budget, and how they can reason more efficiently and proactively.
  • Memory Management for LLM Agents
    • How agents store, update, and retrieve information, for test-time adaptation and long-horizon personalization.
  • Broad Interests
    • Long-horizon tasks, reasoning, memory, and human-AI collaboration.

Other Interests

  • Reading (I read broadly, and I'm a fan of Hermann Hesse and Dostoevsky)
  • Tennis (I really enjoy running and hitting the ball)