Hello! I am Wangchunshu Zhou. I’m currently leading the Personal AI Team at OPPO AI Center. Before that, I was cofounder&CTO of AIWaves Inc. I was a Ph.D. student in the Institute of Machine Learning at ETH Zürich advised by Ryan Cotterell and Mrinmaya Sachan. I obtained my undergraduate and master’s degree at Beihang University, supervised by Ke Xu. I spent one year as a Predoctoral Young Investigator at AI2, Mosaic Team, working with Ronan Le Bras and Yejin Choi. Previously, I interned at Microsoft Research Asia with Tao Ge, and at Bytedance AI Lab with Jingjing Xu and Hang Li. I also spent some time working with Xiang Ren at USC and with Jian Tang at MILA. Please check my CV for further information.

I am actively looking for interns/FTEs at AIWaves Research. If you are interested in working with us on large language models, language agents, superintelligence & superalignment, please reach out to me at chunshu@aiwaves.cn (do not forget to attach your CV).

I am also looking for research collaborations! For master/undergrad students looking for research experience or PhD students looking for collaborations, please send me an email at chunshu@aiwaves.cn.

Research

My research interest lies in AGI. My current research goal is to bridge the gap between powerful pre-trained large language models and their impact on the lives of humankind, and develop Language Technology for All.

To achieve this goal, I identify two major research topics that I’m currently interested in: content generation with LLMs and building LLMs and LLM systems (agents) to achieve AGI.

Content generation with LLMs involves methods to better control and customize LLMs to generate desirable texts of arbitrary length that are personalized, creative, and useful. I am also interested in improving human-AI interaction in AI-assisted writing and building a next-generation human-AI collaborative writing platform.

Content generation with LLMs involves methods to better control and customize LLMs to generate desirable texts of arbitrary length that are personalized, creative, and useful. I am also interested in improving human-AI interaction in smart writing and build next-generation human-AI collaborative writing platform, which is more efficient and deliver smoother experience compared to previous AI-assisted writing systems.

As for AGI research, I am passionate about building algorithms that enable:

• Data-centric AI Agents that can learn from experience and self-evolve after being created and deployed in the wild.
• LLMs that can self-improve without external human supervision.

I am also interested in or working in the following subjects:

• Efficient methods for LLMs and Low resource NLP.
• Generative AI: text generation and its evaluation.
• Language model pre-training and transfer learning for NLP.
• Commonsense reasoning and knowledge-based reasoning.
• Multi-modality, text-to-image generation.

News

[2024.9]. Got one paper accepted to NeurIPS 2024. Thanks to all my collaborators!

[2024.9]. Got two papers accepted to EMNLP 2024 Findings and Demo. Thanks to all my collaborators!

[2024.7]. Got one paper accepted to ECCV 2024. Thanks to all my collaborators!

[2024.5]. Got four papers accepted to ACL 2024 + Findings. Thanks to all my collaborators!

[2024.4]. Got one paper accepted to ICML 2024. Thanks to all my collaborators!

[2024.4]. Got one paper accepted to NAACL 2024. Thanks to all my collaborators!

[2023.10]. Got four papers accepted to EMNLP 2023 + Findings. Thanks to all my collaborators!

[2023.09]. Got one paper accepted to NeurIPS 2023. Thanks to all my collaborators!

[2023.04]. Quit from Ph.D. study and launched AIWaves Inc. together with Eleanor.

[2023.01]. Got five papers accepted to ACL 2023 + Findings. Thanks to all my collaborators!

[2023.01]. Got one paper accepted to ICML 2023. Thanks to all my collaborators!

[2023.01]. Got one paper accepted to ICLR 2023. Thanks to all my collaborators!

[2023.01]. Got one paper accepted to EACL 2023. Thanks to all my collaborators!

[2023.01]. Received Baidu PhD Fellowship (百度奖学金, 10 recipients worldwide). Thanks to Baidu and all my collaborators!

[2022.10]. Got one paper accepted to EMNLP 2022. Thanks to all my collaborators and see you in Abu Dhabi!

[2022.5]. Got one paper accepted to ICML 2022. Thanks to all my collaborators!

[2022.1]. Got two papers accepted to ACL 2022. Thanks to all my collaborators!

[2021.5]. Got two papers accepted to EMNLP 2021. Thanks to all my collaborators!

[2021.5]. Got one paper accepted to ACL 2021. Thanks to all my collaborators!

[2021.3]. Got one paper accepted to NAACL 2021. Thanks to all my collaborators!

[2021.1]. Got one paper accepted to ICLR 2021. Thanks to all my collaborators!

[2020.9]. Got one paper accepted to COLING 2020. Thanks and Congrats to Qifei!

[2020.9]. Got two papers accepted to NeurIPS 2020. Thanks to all my collaborators!

[2020.9]. Got five papers accepted to EMNLP 2020 (1 in main conference and 4 in findings) Thanks to all my collaborators!

[2019.12]. Got one paper accepted by ICLR 2020. Thanks to all my collaborators!

[2019.11]. Got one paper accepted by AAAI 2020. Thanks to all my collaborators!

[2019.5] Got one paper accepted by ACL 2019. See you in Firenze!

[2018.12] Start my research internship at at NLC Group @ Microsoft Research Asia, advised by Dr. Tao Ge.

[2018.8] Start my Master study at NLSDE Lab in Beihang University, advised by Prof. Ke Xu

Personal information

I am a big fan of Harry Potter, Real Madrid, and Cristiano Ronaldo. I enjoy reading books (especially sci-fictions) and playing games (including FIFA, League of Legends, etc.) in my free time.