Ran Xu

Researcher, Google DeepMind

Joined

September 2022

Names

Ran Xu (Preferred)

Emails

****@emory.edu (Confirmed)

****@google.com (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Researcher

Google DeepMind (google.com)

2026 – Present

Intern

Tencent AI Lab (tencent.com)

2025 – 2025

Intern

Google DeepMind (google.com)

2025 – 2025

PhD student

Emory University (emory.edu)

2021 – 2025

Intern

Amazon (amazon.com)

2024 – 2024

Undergrad student

Emory University (emory.edu)

2017 – 2021

Intern

Facebook (meta.com)

2020 – 2020

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Carl Yang

2021 – 2026

PhD Advisor

Joyce C. Ho

2021 – 2026

Expertise

Natural Language Processing

Present

Large Language Models

Present

Publications

MedAgentGym: A Scalable Agentic Training Environment for Code-Centric Reasoning in Biomedical Data Science
Ran Xu, Yuchen Zhuang, Yishan Zhong, Yue Yu, Zifeng Wang, Xiangru Tang, Hang Wu, May Dongmei Wang, Peifeng Ruan, Donghan Yang, Tao Wang, Guanghua Xiao, Xin Liu, Carl Yang, Yang Xie, Wenqi Shi
- ICLR 2026 Oral
- Readers: Everyone
Incentivizing Agentic Reasoning in LLM Judges via Tool-Integrated Reinforcement Learning
Ran Xu, Jingjing Chen, Jiayu Ye, Yu Wu, Jun Yan, Carl Yang, Hongkun Yu
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
MedAgentGym: Training LLM Agents for Code-Based Medical Reasoning at Scale
Ran Xu, Yuchen Zhuang, Yishan Zhong, Yue Yu, Xiangru Tang, Hang Wu, May Dongmei Wang, Peifeng Ruan, Donghan Yang, Tao Wang, Guanghua Xiao, Carl Yang, Yang Xie, Wenqi Shi
- GenAI4Health 2025 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
AceSearcher: Bootstrapping Reasoning and Search for LLMs via Reinforced Self-Play
Ran Xu, Yuchen Zhuang, Zihan Dong, Ruiyu Wang, Yue Yu, Joyce C. Ho, Linjun Zhang, Haoyu Wang, Wenqi Shi, Carl Yang
- NeurIPS 2025 spotlight
- Readers: Everyone
Collab-RAG: Boosting Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Complex Question Answering via White-Box and Black-Box LLM Collaboration
Ran Xu, Wenqi Shi, Yuchen Zhuang, Yue Yu, Joyce C. Ho, Haoyu Wang, Carl Yang
- COLM 2025
- Readers: Everyone
RMBoost: Reward Model Training With Preference-Conditional Multi-Aspect Synthetic Data Generation
Jiaming Shen, Ran Xu, Yennie Jun, Zhen Qin, Tianqi Liu, Carl Yang, Yi Liang, Simon Baumgartner, Michael Bendersky
- SSI-FM Poster
- Readers: Everyone
SimRAG: Self-Improving Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Adapting Large Language Models to Specialized Domains
Ran Xu, Hui Liu, Sreyashi Nag, Zhenwei Dai, Yaochen Xie, Xianfeng Tang, Chen Luo, Yang Li, Joyce C. Ho, Carl Yang, Qi He
- NAACL (Long Papers) 2025
- Readers: Everyone
MedAssist: LLM-Empowered Medical Assistant for Assisting the Scrutinization and Comprehension of Electronic Health Records
Ran Xu, Wenqi Shi, Jonathan Wang, Jasmine Zhou, Carl Yang
- WWW (Companion Volume) 2025
- Readers: Everyone
EHRAgent: Code Empowers Large Language Models for Few-shot Complex Tabular Reasoning on Electronic Health Records
Wenqi Shi, Ran Xu, Yuchen Zhuang, Yue Yu, Jieyu Zhang, Hang Wu, Yuanda Zhu, Joyce C. Ho, Carl Yang, May Dongmei Wang
- LLMAgents @ ICLR 2024 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
BMRetriever: Tuning Large Language Models as Better Biomedical Text Retrievers
Ran Xu, Wenqi Shi, Yue Yu, Yuchen Zhuang, Yanqiao Zhu, May Dongmei Wang, Joyce C. Ho, Chao Zhang, Carl Yang
- EMNLP 2024
- Readers: Everyone

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Co-Authors

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