About me

Basic Info

I’m Min-Jen Wang (王民人). I usually go by the handle “Astrayt” on the Internet.

Originated from Taipei 🇹🇼, now studying at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 🇸🇬.

I like to write code and do math.

My Background

  • Education:
    • NTUsg: Computer Science, Year 3, NTU Science and Technology Scholarship.
    • U of Toronto: Exchange during 2026 Winter.
  • Competitive Programming:
    • Codeforces: Max Rating 1985 (Candidate Master)
    • ICPC: Asia Pacific Championship Finalist (2024 Hanoi and 2026 Taoyuan), Regional Medalist (2025 Silver @ Ho Chi Minh City)
  • Work Experiences:
    • NTU Undergraduate Researcher: Aug 2024 - Jun 2025
      • Optimized Fast Integer Multiplication Algorithms
    • Huawei Singapore: May 2025 - Dec 2025
      • Worked on LLM agents and RL post-training.
      • Tester of 2025 ICPC Challenge (Generated test cases, tested various solutions)
    • Google Taiwan: June 2026 - Aug 2026

What I’m Working On

I’m currently exploring several directions in my academic and career journey:

Technical Interests:

  • Machine Learning research, particularly reinforcement learning theory and optimization
  • Systems and software engineering
  • Mathematics
  • Quantitative Trading and Research

Current Projects:

  • Building pipelines for agentic LLM post-training with RL algorithms at Huawei
  • [Planned] Final Year Project on LLM Hallucination Detection under Prof. Sean Du in 2026!

Long-term Goals:

  • Pursue further studies in Machine Learning, Software Engineering and Mathematics (Targeting: ETH Zurich MSc Computer Science)
  • Exploring career paths in ML research, quantitative finance, and software engineering

Beyond Code

When I’m not coding or studying, you’ll find me:

  • Playing Games:
    • Maimai DX (griding for 16000 and 彩将)
      • Check out my Best 50 here! (Thank you shiftpsh for the amazing website!)
    • Osu! Standard
      • Peak rank #5,373 on 18th June, 2020
    • League of Legends
      • Fan of: 2020 DWG, 2023 T1, 2025 CFO
      • Top/Mid/Bot, sometimes JG
      • I play Yone and Mundo.
    • Apex Legends
      • Diamond in Season 12
    • Rainbow Six: Siege
      • Platium II in Y5S1
    • Counter Strike 2
      • I want to unbox some cases hehe
    • Sudoku
    • Minesweeper
    • Solitaire
  • Learning Japanese and Korean
    • JLPT N3, trying to get N1 before graduation
    • Learned some basic Korean to talk with my friends
  • Still exploring OAO