About

I am an Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI Postdoctoral Fellow at the AI for Science Institute, Cornell University, working with Fengqi You. I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences at Tsinghua University in 2025, advised by Chenye Wu and Ran Duan. From 2023 to 2024, I was a visiting student researcher in Computing and Mathematical Sciences at Caltech, working with Adam Wierman. I received my bachelor's degree in Computer Software Engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 2020.

Research

My research aims to understand the fundamental value of information and structure in sequential decision-making, and to develop reinforcement learning algorithms that efficiently exploit them. Examples of such information and structure include imperfect predictions, decomposable dynamics, Bellman convexity, Lyapunov stability, and chance constraints.

My applied research focuses on emerging challenges in power and energy systems, particularly reliable grid operation and the integration of AI data centers into power grids.

NeurIPS 2025, Spotlight

Reinforcement Learning with Imperfect Transition Predictions: A Bellman-Jensen Approach[PDF]

Chenbei Lu, Zaiwei Chen, Tongxin Li, Chenye Wu, and Adam Wierman

NeurIPS 2026

Learning Chance-Constrained MDPs with Bellman Distributional Certificates[PDF]

Chenbei Lu and Hongyu Yi

ICML 2025

Overcoming the Curse of Dimensionality in Reinforcement Learning Through Approximate Factorization[PDF]

Chenbei Lu, Laixi Shi, Zaiwei Chen, Chenye Wu, and Adam Wierman

IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 2024

Self-Improving Online Storage Control for Stable Wind Power Commitment[PDF]

Chenbei Lu, Hongyu Yi, Jiahao Zhang, and Chenye Wu

IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 2024

Sample-Adaptive Robust Economic Dispatch With Statistically Feasible Guarantees[PDF]

Chenbei Lu, Nan Gu, Wenqian Jiang, and Chenye Wu

IEEE Control Systems Letters, 2025

On the Optimal Deterministic Policy Learning in Chance-Constrained Markov Decision Processes[PDF]

Hongyu Yi*, Chenbei Lu*, and Chenye Wu

Selected Honors

2025

Eric & Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellowship

2025

IIIS Outstanding Graduate Award, Tsinghua University

2024

Toyota Outstanding Scholarship, Tsinghua University

2024

Outstanding Presentation Award, National Outstanding Graduate Student Forum

Teaching

Guest lectures

  • Fall 2025: AI for Science, Cornell University
  • Fall 2025: AI for Energy Systems, Cornell University
  • Spring 2026: Deep Learning, Cornell University

Teaching assistance

  • Fall 2021: Combinatorial Mathematics, Tsinghua University
  • Fall 2022: AI Research Practice, Yao Class, Tsinghua University

News

Sep. 2026
NeurIPS 2026

Our paper Learning Chance-Constrained MDPs with Bellman Distributional Certificates was accepted.

Sep. 2025
Schmidt AI Fellowship

I joined the AI for Science Institute at Cornell University as an Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI Postdoctoral Fellow.

Sep. 2025
NeurIPS 2025 Spotlight

Our work on reinforcement learning with imperfect transition predictions was accepted as a Spotlight.

Jul. 2025
ICML 2025

Our paper on approximate factorization for reinforcement learning was presented in Vancouver.

Apr. 2025
ACM e-Energy 2025

Our work on closed-loop bilevel robust optimization for economic dispatch was accepted.

Professional Service

Conference reviewing: NeurIPS, ICLR, AAAI, IEEE CDC, ACC, PSCC, IEEE SmartGridComm, and ACM e-Energy.

Journal reviewing: IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, and IEEE Transactions on Power Systems.

TPC membership: IEEE SmartGridComm and the ACM e-Energy poster session.