Yongcan Cao

Full Professor, University of Texas, San Antonio

Joined

January 2019

Names

Yongcan Cao (Preferred)

Emails

****@utsa.edu (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Full Professor

University of Texas, San Antonio (utsa.edu)

2024 – Present

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

Coauthor

Ellen Novoseller

Present

Coauthor

Vernon Lawhern

Present

PhD Advisee

Mingkang Wu

Present

PhD Advisee

Feng Tao

Present

Postdoc Advisee

Abhinav Sinha

Present

PhD Advisee

Umer Siddique

Present

PhD Advisee

Peilang Li

Present

PhD Advisee

Conor Wallace

Present

Coauthor

Nicholas R Waytowich

2022 – Present

PhD Advisor

Wei Ren

2006 – 2010

Expertise

Human-AI Alignment

Present

Reinforcement Learning

Present

Publications

Rating-based Reinforcement Learning
Devin White, Mingkang Wu, Ellen Novoseller, Vernon Lawhern, Nicholas R Waytowich, Yongcan Cao
- Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
- Readers: Everyone
Human-Inspired Multi-Level Reinforcement Learning
Mingkang Wu, Devin White, Vernon Lawhern, Nicholas R Waytowich, Yongcan Cao
- ARLET
- Readers: Everyone
RECOLLAB: Retrieval-Augmented LLMs for Cooperative Ad-hoc Teammate Modeling
Conor Wallace, Umer Siddique, Yongcan Cao
- LAW
- Readers: Everyone
Symbolic Policy Distillation for Interpretable Reinforcement Learning
Peilang Li, Umer Siddique, Yongcan Cao
- Mech Interp Workshop (NeurIPS 2025) Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Multi-Task Reward Learning from Human Ratings
Mingkang Wu, Devin White, Evelyn Rose, Vernon Lawhern, Nicholas R Waytowich, Yongcan Cao
- MoFA Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Learning Fair Pareto-Optimal Policies in Multi-Objective Reinforcement Learning
Umer Siddique, Peilang Li, Yongcan Cao
- ALA
- Readers: Everyone
Learning Fair Pareto-Optimal Policies in Multi-Objective Reinforcement Learning
Umer Siddique, Peilang Li, Yongcan Cao
- RLC 2025
- Readers: Everyone
TransAM: Transformer-Based Agent Modeling for Multi-Agent Systems via Local Trajectory Encoding
Conor Wallace, Umer Siddique, Yongcan Cao
- RLC 2025
- Readers: Everyone
From Explainability to Interpretability: Interpretable Reinforcement Learning Via Model Explanations
Peilang Li, Umer Siddique, Yongcan Cao
- RLC 2025
- Readers: Everyone
MODIFLY: A Scalable End-to-end Multi-Agent Simulation for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Jeremy Cofield, Umer Siddique, Yongcan Cao
- MABS2025
- Readers: Everyone

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Yongcan Cao

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Career & Education History

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