Kai Wang
Assistant Professor
Develops decision-focused learning and multi-agent methods for AI for social impact in public health and conservation.
Kai Wang's lab at Georgia Tech works on reasoning & neuro-symbolic AI and planning, control & multi-robot systems. 19 papers since 2023, 15 at top venues, mostly NeurIPS and AAAI. 7 PhD students and 5 master's students. 5 alumni. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 5/ year
- at T1 venues
- 79%
- PhD students
- 7
- MS students
- 5
- alumni listed
- 5
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 5 papers2026 · T1 5 · collecting
- 7 papers2025 · T1 4
- 2 papers2024 · T1 2
- 5 papers2023 · T1 4
T1 venuesOtherVenues: NeurIPS, AAAI, ICML, AAMAS, AISTATS
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Planning, control & multi-robot systems7 papers
- Reasoning & neuro-symbolic AI0 papers
- conservation0 papers
- social impact0 papers
- public health0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
20265 papers
- ICML (T1)A Fully First-Order Layer for Differentiable Optimization (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS (T1)Bilevel Optimization of Synthetic Trajectories for Multi-Turn LLM Fine-Tuning (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS (T1)Budgeted Multi-Source Counterfactual Annotation for Off-Policy Evaluation (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS (T1)Decision-Focused Learning in MDPs: An Occupancy Measure Approach (opens in a new tab)
- ICLR (T1)Diffusion-DFL: Decision-focused Diffusion Models for Stochastic Optimization (opens in a new tab)
20257 papers
- ICML (T1)Efficient Online Reinforcement Learning for Diffusion Policy (opens in a new tab)
- PRL workshop AAAINetworked Restless Multi-Arm Bandits with Reinforcement Learning (opens in a new tab)
- Scientific ReportsOpportunistic Screening of Type 2 Diabetes with Deep Metric Learning using Electronic Health Records (opens in a new tab)
- AISTATS (T1)Primal-Dual Spectral Representation for Off-policy Evaluation (opens in a new tab)
- EARL workshopRevealing Potential Biases in LLM-Based Recommender Systems in the Cold Start Setting (opens in a new tab)
- UAI (T1)What is the Right Notion of Distance between Predict-then-Optimize Tasks? (opens in a new tab)
- WWW (T1)What’s in a Query: Polarity-aware Distribution-based Fair Ranking (opens in a new tab)
20242 papers
20235 papers
- GameSecCharacterizing and Improving the Robustness of Predict-Then-Optimize Frameworks (opens in a new tab)
- AAAI (T1)Optimistic Whittle Index Policy: Online Learning for Restless Bandits (opens in a new tab)
- AAMAS (T1)Restless Multi-Armed Bandits for Maternal and Child Health: Results from Decision-Focused Learning (opens in a new tab)
- AAAI (T1)Scalable Decision-Focused Learning in Restless Multi-Armed Bandits with Application to Maternal and Child Health (opens in a new tab)
- AAAI (T1)Smoothed Online Combinatorial Optimization Using Imperfect Predictions (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went5 listed, 0% to industry
Industry 0Academia 1
Also to
- Carnegie Mellon University
Apply to Georgia TechFall 2027
Georgia Tech Computer Science PhD
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