Haozhu Wang's webpage

Haozhu Wang

I am a Research Scientist at Amazon ML Solutions Lab. My research interests include Reinforcement Learning, NLP, Generative Models, and AI for Science. I enjoy collaborating with domain experts to solve challenging problems in physical sciences and healthcare. My long-term research goal is to create ML systems that can assist human experts in scientific discoveries and innovations.

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News

[Aug-2022] Our paper Dynamic prediction of work status for workers with occupational injuries: assessing the value of longitudinal observations has been published by Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association!

[Aug-2022] Our AWS Machine Learning blog on real-time fraud detection is online.

[July-2022] I served as a session chair in ICML 2022.

[Mar-2022] I joined Amazon ML Solutions Lab as a Research Scientist.

[Jan-2022] I defended my thesis Learning to Optimize: Applications in Physical Designs and Manufacturing on Jan 14th, 2022.

	Dynamic prediction of work status for workers with occupational injuries: assessing the value of longitudinal observations Erkin Ötleş, Jon Seymour, Haozhu Wang, Brian T Denton Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 2022 paper We develop a forecasting model to predict return-to-work after occupational injuries based on longitudinal claim data. The model may allow case managers to better allocate medical resources and help speed up patients' recover process.
	NEUTRON: Neural Particle Swarm Optimization for Material-Aware Inverse Design of Structural Color Haozhu Wang, L. Jay Guo iScience, 2022 paper/ code We propose a hybrid machine learning and optimization method that combines mixture density networks and particle swarm optimization for accurate and efficient structural color inverse design.
	Benchmarking Deep Learning-based Models on Nanophotonic Inverse Design Problems Taigao Ma, Mustafa Tobah, Haozhu Wang* , L. Jay Guo* Opto-Electronic Science, 2022 (*: correspondence) paper We provide extensive benchmarking results on accuracy, diversity, robustness for commonly used deep learning models in nanophotonic inverse designs. The findings can help researchers select models that best suit their design problems.
	An Analytical Method for Evaluating the Robustness of Photonic Integrated Circuits Hanfa Song, Haozhu Wang , Vien Van Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2022 paper We provide an analytical approach for evaluating the robustness of photonic integrated circuits. The method is verified by genetic algorithms.
	Automated Optical Multi-layer Design via Deep Reinforcement Learning Haozhu Wang , Zeyu Zheng, Chengang Ji, L. Jay Guo Machine Learning: Science and Technology, 2021 paper/ code/ abridged NeurIPS workshop version/ Training a novel sequence generation network with Proximal Policy Optimization for automatically discovering near-optimal optical designs.
	COVID-19 Risk Scoring in Los Angeles County Litian Zhou, Wenxue Li, Zhangxing Bian, Yuxuan Cao, Xinyu Li, Weixiao Wang, Zixian Ma Junhwan Kim, Zijin Chu, Yuxi Xie, Yueze Song, Chaoyi Wang, Ruopeng Wang, Linh Tran Haozhu Wang, L. Jay Guo RMDS COVID-19 Challenge, 2020 (*: correspondence) report Apply LSTM and LR models for spatio-temporal COVID-19 risk prediction.
	Return to Work After Injury: A Sequential Prediction & Decision Problem Erkin Ötleş* Haozhu Wang , Suyanpeng Zhang, Brian Denton, Jenna Wiens, Jon Seymour Machinet Learning for Healthcare (clinical abstract), 2019 (: equal contribution) report Apply Q-learning to insurance claim data to learn near-optimal dynamic treatment regimes.
	Learning Credible Models Jiaxuan Wang, Jeeheh Oh, Haozhu Wang , Jenna Wiens KDD, 2018 paper/ code Expert-yielded-estimates regularizer for incorporating expert knowledge into linear models.
	Learning to Share: Simultaneous Parameter Tying and Sparsification in Deep Learning Dejiao Zhang, Haozhu Wang* , Mario A.T. Figueiredo, Laura Balzano ICLR, 2018 (: equal contribution) paper/ code Group-ordered-weighted lasso (GrOWL) for deep model compression.
	Surface Plasmon Polariton Laser based on a Metallic Trench Fabry-Perot Resonator Wenqi Zhu, Ting Xu, Haozhu Wang , Cheng Zhang, Parag B. Deotare, Amit Agrawal, Henri J. Lezec Science Advances, 2017 paper Surface plasmon polariton laser with a novel device structure.
	Single-Photon Imager based on a Superconducting Nanowire Delay Line Qing-Yuan Zhao, Di Zhu, Niccolò Calandri, Andrew E. Dane, Adam N. McCaughan, Francesco Bellei, Hao-Zhu Wang, Daniel F. Santavicca, Karl K. Berggren Nature Photonics, 2017 paper Superconduting nanowire single photon detector as a highly-sensitive imager.

Teaching

EECS 442 Computer Vision (F20), Prof. Andrew Owens
Graduate Student Instructor

EECS 504 Fundations of Computer Vision (W20), Prof. Andrew Owens
Graduate Student Instructor

EECS 545 Machine Learning (F17), Prof. Mert Pilanci
Graduate Student Instructor

Service

Conference review:	ICLR'22-23,ICML'22-23, NeurIPS'20-22, AutoML-Conf'22, MLHC'18-22, AMIA Annual Symposium'20-22
Journal review:	Journal of Physics Communications, AIP Advances
Workshop review:	NeurIPS'20-22 Meta-Learning Workshop, NeurIPS'21-22 Machine Learning and the Physical Sciences Workshop, ICML'22 Pre-training Workshop

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(last update: Sep 2022)