Houjun's Academic Home Page
Last edited: October 10, 2026👋 Howdy, I'm Houjun Liu!
I’m a third-year coterminal MSCS and BSCS student in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University, grateful to be advised by Prof. Mykel Kochenderfer. In the course of my research, I have also had the fortunate opportunity to work with Stanford NLP under Prof. Chris Manning and Prof. Diyi Yang, CMU TalkBank under Prof. Brian MacWhinney, and Prof. Xin Liu at UC Davis Engineering. I am affiliated with the Stanford NLP Group and Stanford Intelligent Systems Lab. I previously visited Microsoft Research Frontiers as a research intern.
Stanford UG Courses Index
Last edited: October 10, 2026Stanford UG Y1, Aut
Stanford UG Y1, Win
Stanford UG Y1, Spr
Stanford UG Y2, Aut
Stanford UG Y2, Win
Stanford UG Y2, Spr
Stanford UG Y3, Aut
Stanford UG Y3, Win
Stanford UG Y3, Spr
Stanford GR Y1, Aut
Stanford Talks
| Date | Topic | Presenter | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| UG Research Program | Brian Thomas | Stanford UG Research Program | |
| Bld an Ecosystem, Not Monolith | Colin Raffel | Build a System | |
| Training Helpful CHatbots | Nazeen Rajani | Training Helpful Chatbots | |
| AI Intepretability for Bio | Gasper Begus | AI Intepretability | |
| PT Transformers on Long Seqs | Mike Lewis | Pretraining Long Transformers | |
| Transformers! | A. Vaswani | Transformers | |
| Towards Interactive Agents | Jessy Lin | Interactive Agent | |
| Dissociating Language and Thought | Anna Ivanova | Dissociating Language and Thought | |
| Language Agents | Karthik Narasimhan | Language Agents with Karthik | |
| Pretraining Data | |||
| value alignment | Been Kim | LM Alignment | |
| model editing | Peter Hase | Knowledge Editing | |
| Knowledge Localization | |||
| Presentations | Sydney Katz | Presentations | |
| Video Generation with Learned Prior | Meenakshi Sarkar | Priors | |
| Theoretical Drone Control | Sliding Mode UAV Control | ||
| VLM to Agents | Tao Yu | VLM to Agents | |
| Social RL | Natasha Jaques | Social Reinforcement Learning | |
| Model Predictive Control + Prompting | Gabriel Maher | LLM MPC | |
| Planning for Learning | |||
| Theorem Proving | Self-Play Conjection Generalization | ||
| Safety for Trucks | Safety for Autonomous Trucking | ||
| Collaborate Multiagent DM | Collaborative Multiagent DM | ||
| AI Safety Talks | AI Safety Annual Meeting | ||
| Pretraining under infinite compute | Limited Samples and Infinite Compute | ||
| Mel Krusniak | Decisions.jl | ||
| SISL Flash Talks | SISL Talks | ||
| Predicting Scaling Performance | |||
| mixed-autonomy traffic with LLMS | mixed-autonomy traffic with LLMs | ||
| AI Incidents Policy | AI Incidents Policy | ||
| Reliable RL | Reliable RL | ||
| Words to Concepts | Words to Concepts | ||
| Zen’s Defense | |||
| multi-agent LLM | Multi-Agent LLMs | ||
| Alex’s Defense | |||
| Yi Chen | gen ai safety model and datasets | ||
| Anastasia Koslova | From Security to Trustworthy AI | ||
| Problems with AI | |||
| Likelihood Free Bayesian Optimization |
Contacts
Embedded Workshop Index
Last edited: September 9, 2026ICML2026 Index
Last edited: July 7, 2026Sessions
Posters
Workshops
Nueva Courses Index
Last edited: June 6, 2026NUS Secondary School Other Duties
- AP Statistics Index
- AP Phys C Mech Index
- AP Phys C EM Index
- Tuning Forks
- bioinformatics
- PKM
- Intersession 2023
NUS-MATH580 QIC
| Date | Topic |
|---|---|
| physical qubits, manipulating physical qubits | |
| making qubits interact | |
| Chiara Marletto | |
| Strong Free Will |
NUS-CS223 Algorithms
Backlog: Finite State Machine
| Date | Topic |
|---|---|
| stable matching problem, stable matching algorithm | |
| dynamic programming, relaxation | |
| distributed algorithum, randomized algorithum, complexity theory |
NUS-HIST301 American History
Backlog: New Deal, Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR), Works Progress Administration, effects of the New Deal, Great Depression, Herber Hoover, disinformation, Guilded Age