Yiming Xiong

Yiming Xiong

About Me

I am Yiming Xiong (熊一鸣), a Data Science Master's student at the University of British Columbia. Building on my professional experience as a Machine Learning Engineer at DataStory, I am now transitioning toward deeper research.

My interests lie in how knowledge, architectures, and social structures can naturally be explored, balanced, and optimized within self-contained, ever-evolving agentic systems, exploring how agents can discover and optimize their own architectures and rules without human intervention.

Selected Research Program

Work Experience

Machine Learning Engineer

DataStory | Sep 2024 - Jul 2025

Core contributor to deep research agent systems and agentic reinforcement learning research, with a focus on multi-agent reasoning, training strategies, and reward design. Also provided algorithmic support for business-driven AI applications across teams, bridging research insights with practical deployment.

Education

Master of Data Science

University of British Columbia | 2025 - 2026

Bachelor of Data Science and Big Data Technology

Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen | 2020 - 2024