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268        <div class="name">Xunjian Yin</div>
269        <div class="pronunciation">Xunjian is pronounced as Shwen-Jyen</div>
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271          CS PhD student at <a href="https://www.duke.edu/">Duke University</a>, co-advised by Prof. <a
272            href="https://www.shuyanzhou.com/">Shuyan Zhou</a> and Prof. <a
273            href="https://users.cs.duke.edu/~bdhingra/">Bhuwan Dhingra</a>.
274          I worked as a Student Researcher at <a href="https://deepmind.google/">Google DeepMind</a>.
275          Previously at <a href="https://english.pku.edu.cn/">Peking University</a> (Prof. <a
276            href="https://wanxiaojun.github.io/">Xiaojun Wan</a>),

277          <a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/">Microsoft Research</a>,
278          <a href="http://nlp.cs.ucsb.edu/">UCSB NLP Group</a> (Prof. <a
279            href="https://sites.cs.ucsb.edu/~william/index.html">William Yang Wang</a>), and
280          <a href="https://www.amazon.science/">Amazon AGI SF Lab</a>.
281          I study how AI systems can recursively self-improve over long horizons to solve open-ended problems, with a
282          focus on self-referential agents and world models.
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304              DeepMind</a> as a Student Researcher.</span></li>
305        <li><span class="news-date">Fall 2025</span><span>Started PhD at <a href="https://www.duke.edu/">Duke
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