About
I am Zhennan Shen, a first-year Ph.D. student at HKUST, advised by Prof. Yi R. (May) Fung. Before that, I received my B.E. in Computer Science and Technology from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2025. My research focuses on language-model agents.
I have worked closely with Prof. Tao Yu at HKU NLP and with Prof. Lu Chen at the X-LANCE Lab. In 2025, I interned at Moonshot AI (Kimi), contributing to the K-series models. I am currently a research intern at MiniMax, working on post-training for long-horizon coding agents.
Contact: 1641225799szn@gmail.com or zshenbl@connect.ust.hk · Google Scholar · LinkedIn · X · Resume
News
- 2026.09 Started my Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering at HKUST, advised by Prof. Yi R. (May) Fung.
- 2026.06 Joined MiniMax as a research intern, working on post-training for long-horizon coding agents.
- 2026.01 Kimi K2.5 released as the most powerful open-source visual agentic model, featuring native multimodal intelligence and Agent Swarm.
- 2025.12 Joined JD.com (JoyAI) to work on mid-training data synthesis for general and coding agents.
- 2025.09 OpenCUA recognized as a Spotlight at NeurIPS 2025.
- 2025.07 OSWorld-Verified launched the verified OSWorld evaluation suite, delivering more reliable infrastructure and task quality.
- 2025.03 Joined Moonshot AI (Kimi) to develop RL pipelines for advanced computer-use agents.
- 2025.01 AgentTrek selected as a Spotlight at ICLR 2025.
Publications & Preprints (Selected)
Kimi K2.5: Visual Agentic Intelligence. Kimi Team. arXiv 2026
AgentTrek: Agent Trajectory Synthesis via Guiding Replay with Web Tutorials. * Yiheng Xu, * Dunjie Lu, * Zhennan Shen (Co-Lead), Junli Wang, Zekun Wang, Yuchen Mao, Caiming Xiong, Tao Yu. ICLR 2025 (Spotlight)
OpenCUA: Open Foundations for Computer-Use Agents. Xinyuan Wang, Bowen Wang, Dunjie Lu, Junlin Yang, Tianbao Xie, Junli Wang, Jiaqi Deng, Xiaole Guo, Yiheng Xu, Chen Henry Wu, Zhennan Shen, et al. NeurIPS 2025 (Spotlight)
OSWorld-Verified: Reliable Evaluation for Computer-Use Agents. Tianbao Xie, Mengqi Yuan, Danyang Zhang, Xinzhuang Xiong, Zhennan Shen, Zilong Zhou, Xinyuan Wang, Yanxu Chen, Jiaqi Deng, Junda Chen, Bowen Wang, Haoyuan Wu, Jixuan Chen, Junli Wang, Dunjie Lu, Hao Hu, Tao Yu. Follow-up to OSWorld (NeurIPS 2024)
Experience
Education
- The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Ph.D. Student, Sep 2026 – Present, Hong Kong (Advisor: Prof. Yi R. (May) Fung).
- Shanghai Jiao Tong University, B.E. in Computer Science and Engineering, Sep 2021 – Jun 2025, Shanghai, China.
Research
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HKU NLP Group, Research Intern, Jul 2024 – Sep 2024, Hong Kong (Advisor: Prof. Tao Yu)
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X-LANCE Lab, SJTU, Research Intern, Jul 2023 – Jul 2024, Shanghai, China (Advisors: Prof. Lu Chen & Prof. Kai Yu)
Industry
- MiniMax, Research Intern, Jun 2026 – Present, Shanghai, China
Post-training for long-horizon coding agents (M3.1; SWE-Marathon, NL2Repo, Frontier-SWE). - JD.com (JoyAI), Research Intern, Dec 2025 – Apr 2026, Beijing, China
Mid-training data synthesis and agent post-training for JoyAI-LLM Flash (general and coding agents). - Moonshot AI (Kimi), Agent Training Intern, Mar 2025 – Dec 2025, Beijing, China
Post-training and data synthesis for computer-use agents (Kimi K2.5, OKComputer).
Honors & Awards
- Tang Xiao’ou Scholarship, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
- Outstanding Graduate, Zhiyuan Honors Program (2025).
- Zhiyuan Honors Scholarship, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (2021–2024).
- University-Level Scholarship (2022, 2023).
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