Portrait of Ti-Rong Wu

Ti-Rong Wu 吳廸融

Associate Research Fellow/Professor Institute of Information Science Academia Sinica

Research Interests: Reinforcement Learning, Planning, Computer Games, Artificial Intelligence

I am an Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. Before joining Academia Sinica, I was a Postdoctoral Researcher at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University from 2020 to 2022, advised by Professor I-Chen Wu. I received my Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from National Chiao Tung University in 2020, also under his supervision. During my Ph.D., I led the development of the computer Go program CGI, which won multiple gold medals at the Computer Olympiad and second place at the first World AI Go Open in 2017. My current research interests include reinforcement learning, planning, and computer games.

Join Us: I am looking for self-motivated research assistants, postdoctoral researchers, and students who are passionate about research in reinforcement learning, planning, game AI, and related topics. For graduate students, I can advise master's and Ph.D. students through the Data Science Degree Program at National Taiwan University and Ph.D. students through the TIGP SNHCC and TIGP AIoT programs. Undergraduate interns from any university are also welcome. If you are interested in joining my group, please check my recent publications before contacting me with your CV and a brief description of your research interests.

Updates

One paper, "Do LLMs Trust the Accuser or the Accusation? Measuring Belief Shifts in Werewolf," has been accepted to the EMNLP 2026 main conference as a short paper. Congratulations to Yu-Yu Yang and Hsing-Yu Chen!

Postdoctoral researcher Dr. Hung Guei will join the College of Artificial Intelligence, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, as an assistant professor in August. Congratulations, Dr. Guei!

Postdoctoral researcher Dr. Chung-Chin Shih will join the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Chung Cheng University, as an assistant professor in August. Congratulations, Dr. Shih!

I gave a talk, "From Games to Chip Design Using Reinforcement Learning," at AI Forum 2026 in Tainan, Taiwan.

Research assistant Yan-Ru Ju will start a Ph.D. program in Computer Science at Duke University. Congratulations, Yan-Ru!

Yun-Jui Tsai received the Best M.S. Thesis Award from the TCGA Association. Congratulations, Yun-Jui!

One paper, "MAPLE: Multi-State Aggregated Policy Evaluation for AlphaZero in Imperfect-Information Games," has been accepted to IEEE CoG 2026. Congratulations to Qian-Rong Li and Hung Guei!

One paper, "WallZero: Mastering the Game of WallGo with Strategic Analysis," has been accepted to CG 2026. Congratulations to Hsing-Yu Chen and Jérôme Arjonilla!

My personal website is now online. Thanks to Codex for helping build it. I will start recording updates.