Yichen Feng

Curriculum vitae

Yichen Feng

Education

University of Washington
Seattle, USA
- Ph.D. StudentPresent
- Master of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering2024–2026
Advisor: Professor Radha Poovendran
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China & University of Glasgow
2020–2024
Chengdu, China
B.Eng. in Electronics and Electrical Engineering

Amazon Web Services
2025 Summer
Seattle
Agent-Driven SQL Generation and Web Visualization

Visual Aesthetic Benchmark: Can Frontier Models Judge Beauty?
COLM 2026Paper Project
Introduced an expert-grounded benchmark for visual aesthetics across art, photography, and illustration, revealing a substantial gap between 20 frontier vision-language models and expert judgment.
BadScientist: Can a Research Agent Write Convincing but Unsound Papers that Fool LLM Reviewers?
ACL 2026Paper Project
Studied whether automated research agents can produce convincing but unsound papers that deceive LLM reviewers, and evaluated weaknesses in automated peer review.
JobBench: Aligning Agent Work With Human Will
Preprint, 2026Paper Project
Developed a benchmark of 130 agentic tasks across 35 occupations, evaluating workflows that human experts prioritize for delegation and grading outputs with task-specific rubrics.
VisualSphinx: Large-Scale Synthetic Vision Logic Puzzles for RL
DataWorld Workshop at ICML 2025Paper Project
Created large-scale synthetic visual logic puzzles using a rule-to-image pipeline. Applied reinforcement learning to improve vision-language models' logical reasoning and transfer across reasoning tasks.

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