Xianyuan Zhan is currently a research assistant professor at the Institute for AI Industry Research (AIR), Tsinghua University.  He received his Ph.D. degree at Purdue University. Before joining Tsinghua University, Dr. Zhan worked as a researcher at Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) and a data scientist at JD Technology.  At JD Technology, he led the research that uses offline RL to optimize real-world industrial systems. 

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DeepThermal: Combustion Optimization for Thermal Power Generating Units Using Offline Reinforcement Learning
Xianyuan Zhan, Haoran Xu, Yue Zhang, Yusen Huo, Xiangyu Zhu, Honglei Yin, Yu Zheng