Hello! I’m Wenqian Xu, an incoming Ph.D. student at the University of Toronto starting in Fall 2026, advised by Dr. Feng Ji. I recently completed my M.Sc. in Statistics and Management at Shanghai University of Finance and Economics (SUFE), where I worked with Dr. Fan Zhou. I received my B.Sc. in Statistics from the China University of Geosciences, advised by Dr. Deyi Xu and Dr. Yongguang Zhu.

My research focuses on how humans learn and make decisions. I combine reinforcement learning with psychometric modeling to quantify individual decision abilities and support ability assessment in complex environments. I am also interested in advancing interpretable and robust RL methods, and in data quality for machine learning and large language models. You can find a selection of my projects here.

Additionally, I keep a Chinese Page where I occasionally write about my life.