About Me

Hi! I’m Can Chen, a first-year PhD student in Data Science at the Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute, University of California San Diego. I’m fortunate to be advised by Prof. Jun-Kun Wang.

My research interest lies in online optimization and reinforcement learning. Recently, I am working on the LLM-generated text detection by online optimization.

News

• October 2024: Our paper, “Online Detecting LLM-Generated Text via Sequential Hypothesis Testing by Betting”, co-authored with Professor Jun-Kun Wang, is now available on arXiv.
• August 2024: Received a Ph.D. offer from the Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute at the University of California, San Diego! I will be advised by Professor Jun-Kun Wang.
• July 2024: Received a Graduate Student Researcher (GSR) appointment at the Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute to work with Professor Jun-Kun Wang on a project focused on detecting LLM-generated text.
• September 2023: Began my M.S. in Data Science at UC San Diego!

Publications

• Online Detecting LLM-Generated Text via Sequential Hypothesis Testing by Betting [Preprint]

  Can Chen, Jun-Kun Wang

Service

• Reviewer for NeurIPS 2024, ICLR 2025

Internship

• June 2021 - September 2021, Data Analyst Internship, ABC Financial Asset Investment Company, China