Zhaofeng (Philip) WangHi! My name is Philip Wang. I am a first-year PhD student in the IDEAS Lab at Northwestern University, supervised by Prof. Qi Zhu. I received my B.A. in Mathematics and Psychology from Northwestern University. During undergrad, I have also had the pleasure of receiving a summer research fund to work with Prof. Zach Wood-Doughty in 2024. I have a broad interest at the intersection of reinforcement learning, formal methods, and control for safe autonomous systems. I am excited about integrating formal verification and control-theoretic tools with learning-based methods to obtain safe, interpretable, and scalable embodied agents. If you are interested in any aspect of me, I am always open to discussions and academic collaborations. Feel free to reach out to me at — philipwang2025 [at] u [dot] northwestern [dot] edu GitHub / Google Scholar / CV |
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ManiGuard: A Benchmark and Data Suite for Specification-Grounded Safety Evaluation and Improvement of Robotic ManipulationYiyan Peng *, Philip Wang *, Simon Sinong Zhan *, Yiqi Lyu, Zhenyang Ni, Jixin Yan, Fiorelli Wong, Ruochen Jiao, Hang Yin, Xinyu Cao, Huajie Shao, Manling Li, Ruohan Zhang, Qi Zhu arXiv, 2026. arXiv / Project Page / Code |
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SENTINEL: A Multi-Level Formal Framework for Safety Evaluation of Foundation Model-based Embodied AgentsSimon Sinong Zhan *, Philip Wang *, Justin Liu *, Yiyan Peng *, Yiqi Lyu, Zinan Wang, Qineng Wang, Zhian Ruan, Xiangyu Shi, Xinyu Cao, Frank Yang, Zhenyang Ni, Kangrui Wang, Ruohan Zhang, Huajie Shao, Manling Li, Qi Zhu NeurIPS, 2026. arXiv / Project Page / Code |
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Belief-Based Offline Reinforcement Learning for Delay-Robust Policy OptimizationSimon Sinong Zhan *, Qingyuan Wu *, Philip Wang, Frank Yang, Xiangyu Shi, Chao Huang, Qi Zhu ICLR, 2026. arXiv |
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Enhancing Inverse Reinforcement Learning through Encoding Dynamic Information in Reward ShapingSimon Sinong Zhan *, Philip Wang *, Qingyuan Wu *, Ruochen Jiao, Yixuan Wang, Chao Huang, Qi Zhu L4DC, 2026. arXiv |
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Inverse Delayed Reinforcement LearningSimon Sinong Zhan *, Qingyuan Wu *, Zhian Ruan, Frank Yang, Philip Wang, Yixuan Wang, Ruochen Jiao, Chao Huang, Qi Zhu arXiv, 2024. arXiv |
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