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Zhaoyang Wang

Ph.D. Student in CS
University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill
[email protected] where X=first name

About Me

My name is Zhaoyang Wang (王朝阳 in Chinese). I am a 3rd year Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, advised by Prof. Huaxiu Yao. My research interests mainly lie in the data synthesis and post-training for Large Language Models (LLMs). And I'm currently working on agents, welcome to reach out if you have interests to collaborate. In my spare time, I'm always excited to learn more about MLSys and Computer System.

Previously, I worked on robustness and text generation issues of Natural Language Processing (NLP). I received my master's degree in Computer Science from Sun Yat-sen University in 2024, and my bachelor's degree in Computer Science from North China Electric Power University in 2021. I also spent wonderful time interning at Microsoft (2023, 2025, 2026), Snowflake (2025) and Tencent (2023).

Publications [ Google Scholar ] [ Full Publications ]

    Agents

  1. WebHarbor: Docking Real Websites for Evolving GUI Agent Environments teaser Blog
    WebHarbor: Docking Real Websites for Evolving GUI Agent Environments
    Zhaoyang Wang, Qianhui Wu, Shi Qiu, WebHarbor Team, and Contributors
    Blog 2026.
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  2. Agent World Model: Infinity Synthetic Environments for Agentic Reinforcement Learning teaser ICML 2026
    Agent World Model: Infinity Synthetic Environments for Agentic Reinforcement Learning
    Zhaoyang Wang, Canwen Xu, Boyi Liu, Yite Wang, Siwei Han, Zhewei Yao, Huaxiu Yao, Yuxiong He
    Proceedings of the 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning.
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  3. WebXSkill: Skill Learning for Autonomous Web Agents teaser EMNLP 2026
    WebXSkill: Skill Learning for Autonomous Web Agents
    Zhaoyang Wang, Qianhui Wu, Xuchao Zhang, Chaoyun Zhang, Wenlin Yao, Fazle Elahi Faisal, Baolin Peng, Si Qin, Suman Nath, and et al.
    Findings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing.
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  4. SynthAgent: Adapting Web Agents with Synthetic Supervision teaser ACL 2026
    SynthAgent: Adapting Web Agents with Synthetic Supervision
    Zhaoyang Wang, Yiming Liang, Xuchao Zhang, Qianhui Wu, Siwei Han, Anson Bastos, Ruijia Wang, Chetan Bansal, Baolin Peng, et al.
    Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics.
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  5. GUI-Libra: Training Native GUI Agents to Reason and Act with Action-aware Supervision and Partially Verifiable RL teaser Preprint
    GUI-Libra: Training Native GUI Agents to Reason and Act with Action-aware Supervision and Partially Verifiable RL
    Rui Yang, Qianhui Wu, Zhaoyang Wang, Hanyang Chen, Ke Yang, Hao Cheng, Huaxiu Yao, Baoling Peng, Huan Zhang, Jianfeng Gao, Tong Zhang
    Arxiv Preprint 2026.
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Experiences

  • Microsoft, Redmond, May 2026 - Aug 2026
    Intern, working on synthesizing general CUA environments mentored by Qianhui Wu.
  • Snowflake, Remote, Oct 2025 - Apr 2026
    Intern, working on synthesizing agent environments mentored by Canwen Xu, Boyi Liu and Yite Wang.
  • Microsoft, Redmond, May 2025 - Aug 2025
    Intern, working on web agent data synthesis mentored by Xuchao Zhang and Qianhui Wu.
  • Tencent, Beijing, June 2023 - Sept 2023
    Intern, working on the RLHF stage of WeLM mentored by Liwen Zhu and Xiao Zhou.
  • Microsoft, Beijing, Jan 2023 - June 2023
    Intern, working on LLM reasoning distillation mentored by Shaohan Huang, Minghui Song and Zihan Zhang.


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