I am a third-year Ph.D. student at the University of Southern California coadvised by Jesse Thomason (GLAMOR Lab) and Erdem Bıyık (LiRA Lab). I work in natural language and reinforcement learning (RL), and some of my recent works focuses on using natural language supervision to accelerate hierarchical RL. I am currently a Student Researcher at Google working with Chih-wei Hsu, Yinlam Chow and Guy Tennenholtz on sequential-decision making with dynamic latent contexts. I previously interned at Meta Reality Lab with Paul Crook and Andrea Matto working on task-oriented dialogue systems using LLMs.

Prior to joining USC, I spent a summer (during the pandemic) as a visiting scholar at CMU working with Changliu Liu. I graduated from the University of Michigan (UM) with a Masters in Robotics and Bachelors in Computer Science where I worked with Wilka Carvalho and Honglak Lee. During my undergrad summers, I interned at Amazon, Invisible.ai, Google Ads, Luminar and Socratic.

Feel free to say hi: anthony dot liang at usc dot edu