📖 Education

• 2018.09 - 2023.06, Ph.D. in Computer Science and Technology, Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU), Joint Ph.D. program with Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA)
• 2014.09 - 2018.06, Bachelor in Software Engineering, School of Data Science and Computer Science, Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU)

💼 Work Experience

• 2024.06 - Present,ByteDance Seed Edge Team - Senior Research Scientist
  • Role: Senior Research Scientist in LLMs and Agents, member of TopSeed program, one of the algorithm leads for general agent optimization
  • Project Experience:
    • Seed 1.8 & Seed 2.0 & Seed 2.1 (Leading next-generation Agent foundation models, core contributor)
    • Office Task Mode of 豆包专业版 (Doubao Pro) — as one of the algorithm leads
    • Doubao Expert Mode (long-CoT reasoning that delivers expert-level answers to complex professional problems, improving quality in STEM, coding, domain expertise and creative writing) & Super Mode (豆包专家模式 & 豆包超能模式)
    • Agent-World (scalable real-world environment synthesis for evolving general agent intelligence)
    • Seed-Thinking long chain-of-thought reasoning model
    • Seed-Agent foundation model:
      • UI-TARS & UI-TARS-2 (Industry-leading open-source GUI+Game Agent foundation models) training
      • ReTool (Agent multi-turn tool calling reinforcement learning training framework)
      • MCP-enhanced general Agent foundation model training
• 2023.06 - 2024.06, Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab - Speech & Semantic Lab - Research Scientist (TopMind Program)
  • Project Experience: Research scientist in Large Language Models, specializing in PanGu foundation model instruction tuning, data flywheel, Agent super-alignment and complex reasoning research and implementation.
• 2018.06 - 2023.06, Microsoft Research Asia - Joint Ph.D. Program Long-term Internship
  • Mentor: Dr. Nan Duan and Dr. Ming Zhou

💬 Academic Supervision

• Ph.D. Advisors: Dr. Ming Zhou (Microsoft Research Asia), Prof. Jian Yin (SYSU), Prof. Jiahai Wang (SYSU)
• Mentor at MSRA: Dr. Nan Duan (Natural Language Computing Group)

🔬 Research Internship

• 2018.06 - 2023.06, Research Intern, Natural Language Computing Group, Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA), Beijing
  • Long-term internship as part of joint Ph.D. program
  • Mentor: Dr. Nan Duan