Hi! I am a PhD candidate in the CILVR lab at NYU Courant advised by Mengye Ren and supported by the NDSEG fellowship. I am also a visiting researcher at Meta FAIR.

My goal is to build AI systems that can solve complex tasks in the real world to amplify human productivity and well-being. I have worked on multimodal LLMs, visual pretraining [1, 2, 3], and reinforcement learning [4]. I am currently interested in exploration and long-horizon training.

I interned at Meta FAIR working on multimodal pretraining and computer use agents. Before starting my PhD, I worked on the systematic equities research team at The Voleon Group. I completed my joint BS/MS in computer science at the University of Michigan. There, I was fortunate to work with Honglak Lee on reinforcement learning and Michael P. Wellman on multi-agent systems.

News

September 2026

I joined Meta's AI Mentorship Program as a visiting researcher.

April 2026

I started my internship at Meta FAIR working on multimodal and unified pretraining mentored by Jakob Verbeek and Hu Xu.

January 2026

Midway Network is accepted to ICLR 2026.

May 2025

I started my internship at Meta FAIR working on computer use agents mentored by Joseph Tighe and Pierluca D'Oro.

February 2025

PooDLe is accepted to ICLR 2025.

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Publications
Midway Network: Learning Representations for Recognition and Motion from Latent Dynamics
Chris Hoang, Mengye Ren
ICLR 2026
project page / arXiv

Midway Network is a new self-supervised learning architecture that is the first to learn visual representations for both object recognition and motion prediction solely from natural videos by leveraging latent dynamics.

Canonical Observation Pretraining for Visuomotor Control
Yuen-Hei Yeung, Chris Hoang, Zifan Zhao, Mengye Ren
CVPR 2026 ActiVis Workshop

Our method Canonical pretrains visual representations by modeling camera viewpoint change as an SO(3) rotation in latent space, allowing visuomotor policies to generalize to unseen camera angles without calibration.

LaMo: A Latent Motion World Model for Long-Horizon Prediction
Azwar Abdulsalam, Chris Hoang, Mengye Ren
ICLR 2026 2nd Workshop on World Models
project page

LaMo is a structured latent dynamics model that enables long-horizon prediction by autoregressively predicting latent motion tokens used to advance a visual scene's latent state over time.

Discrete JEPA: Learning Discrete Token Representations without Reconstruction
Junyeob Baek, Hosung Lee, Chris Hoang, Mengye Ren, Sungjin Ahn
ICML Tokenization Workshop 2025
arXiv

We introduce Discrete-JEPA, which learns discrete semantic tokens for improved symbolic reasoning and long-horizon planning.

PooDLe: Pooled and dense self-supervised learning from naturalistic videos
Alex N. Wang*, Chris Hoang*, Yuwen Xiong, Yann LeCun, Mengye Ren
ICLR 2025
project page / arXiv

We propose a self-supervised learning framework that combines pooled and dense objectives to learn representations with spatial and semantic understanding from naturalistic videos.

Successor Feature Landmarks for Long-Horizon Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning
Chris Hoang, Sungryull Sohn, Jongwook Choi, Wilka Carvalho, Honglak Lee
NeurIPS 2021
NeurIPS Workshop on Deep Reinforcement Learning 2020
project page / arXiv / video

We leverage successor features to formulate a graph-based planning framework and goal-conditioned policy, enabling long-horizon goal-reaching in visual environments.

Spoofing the Limit Order Book: A Strategic Agent-Based Analysis
Xintong Wang, Chris Hoang, Yevgeniy Vorobeychik, Michael P. Wellman,
Games 2021
paper

We use an agent-based model and empirical game-theoretic analysis to study price manipulation in financial markets and propose mitigation mechanisms.

Learning-Based Trading Strategies in the Face of Market Manipulation
Xintong Wang, Chris Hoang, Michael P. Wemman,
ICAIF 2020
ICML Workshop on AI in Finance 2019
paper

We design learning-based trading strategies that have improved robustness to market manipulation and evaluate them with agent-based simulation.