I am currently a Researcher in OpenGVLab, Shanghai AI Laboratory, collaborating with Dr. Kai Chen. Previously, I collaborated with Dr. Wenhai Wang and Dr. Zhiyong Wu. Before that, I received my M.Eng. degree from the School of Data Science and Engineering, East China Normal University in 2025, advised by Prof. Ming Gao and Prof. Xiang Li in X101 lab, and B.Eng. degree at the School of Software, Dalian University of Technology in 2022, respectively.

My research interests include:

★★★ Feel free to reach out to me for academic discussions and collaborations!

🔥 News

  • 2025.09: 🖥️📱 We released ScaleCUA, the first open-source framework and dataset for truly cross-platform Computer Use Agents!
  • 2025.08: 🎉🎉 Our team released InternVL3.5, a new family of advanced open-source MLLMs, welcome to have a try!
  • 2025.07: 🥂🥂 Our paper GUIMid is accepted to COLM 2025! 🇨🇦
  • 2025.05: 🔬🧪 We release ScienceBoard to advance computer-using agents in scientific workflows!
  • 2025.05: 🥂🥂 Our paper OS-Genesis and LBS3 are accepted to ACL 2025! 🇦🇹
  • 2025.04: 🤖🤖 We release GUIMid, A new paradigm for training GUI agents!
  • 2025.03: 🏖️🏖️ Will attend ICLR 2025! See you at Singapore! 🇸🇬
  • 2025.01: 🥂🥂 Our paper OS-Atlas is accepted to ICLR 2025 (Spotlight)! 🇸🇬
  • 2024.12: 🤖🤖 We release OS-Genesis and OS-Atlas to advance GUI agents!
  • 2024.12: 🎉🎉 New homepage!
  • 2024.11: 🥂🥂 Our paper RELIEF is accepted to KDD 2025! 🇨🇦
  • 2024.11: ⛱️⛱️ Attend EMNLP 2024 in Miami, USA! 🇺🇸

📝 Selected Publications

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ScaleCUA: Scaling Open-Source Computer Use Agents with Cross-Platform Data 🔥🔥
Zhaoyang Liu*, Jingjing Xie*, Zichen Ding*, Zehao Li*, Bowen Yang*, Zhenyu Wu*, Xuehui Wang, Qiushi Sun, Shi Liu, Weiyun Wang, Shenglong Ye, Qingyun Li, Zeyue Tian, Gen Luo, Xiangyu Yue, Biqing Qi, Kai Chen, Bowen Zhou, Yu Qiao, Qifeng Chen, Wenhai Wang.

(* means equal contributions)

  • Check code, dataset & models at Our Github and Our HF Collections. 🤗
  • The first open-source framework and dataset for truly cross-platform Computer Use Agents. 🤖
  • Achieve the SOTA results on MMBench-GUI, ScreenSpot-Pro, and WebArena-Lite-v2, etc. 🏆
  • Provide a comprehensive training recipe to advance computer-use agents. 🚀
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MMBench-GUI: Hierarchical Multi-Platform Evaluation Framework for GUI Agents 🔥🔥
Xuehui Wang*, Zhenyu Wu*, Jingjing Xie*, Zichen Ding*, Bowen Yang*, Zehao Li*, Zhaoyang Liu*, Qingyun Li, Xuan Dong, Zhe Chen, Weiyun Wang, Xiangyu Zhao, Jixuan Chen, Haodong Duan, Tianbao Xie, Chenyu Yang, Shiqian Su, Yue Yu, Yuan Huang, Yiqian Liu, Xiao Zhang, Yanting Zhang, Xiangyu Yue, Weijie Su, Xizhou Zhu, Wei Shen, Jifeng Dai, Wenhai Wang.

  • Check code at Our Project. 🎬
  • A cross-platform, hierarchical benchmark designed to comprehensively evaluate GUI agents. 🔍
  • Introduce EQA to jointly assess both the success and efficiency of agent behavior in online tasks. 🧐
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Breaking the Data Barrier – Building GUI Agents Through Task Generalization
Junlei Zhang*, Zichen Ding*, Chang Ma, Zijie Chen, Qiushi Sun, Zhenzhong Lan, Junxian He.

  • Check code at Our Project. 📽️
  • Provide insights into cross-domain knowledge transfer for GUI agents. 🤖
  • Offer a practical approach to addressing data scarcity challenges in this emerging field. 💫
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OS-Genesis: Automating GUI Agent Trajectory Construction via Reverse Task Synthesis [CCF-A]
Qiushi Sun*, Kanzhi Cheng*, Zichen Ding*, Chuanyang Jin*, Yian Wang, Fangzhi Xu, Zhenyu Wu, Chengyou Jia, Liheng Chen, Zhoumianze Liu, Ben Kao, Guohao Li, Junxian He, Yu Qiao, Zhiyong Wu.

  • Check demos at Our Website. 🌐
  • Shift from task-driven to interaction-driven GUI data synthesis. 🤖
  • A manual-free data pipeline for synthesizing GUI agent trajectories. 🧬
EMNLP 2024
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Automated Peer Reviewing in Paper SEA: Standardization, Evaluation, and Analysis [CCF-B]
Jianxiang Yu*, Zichen Ding*, Jiaqi Tan, Kangyang Luo, Zhenmin Weng, Chenghua Gong, Long Zeng, Renjing Cui, Chengcheng Han, Qiushi Sun, Zhiyong Wu, Yunshi Lan, Xiang Li.

  • Check demos at Our Website. 🌐
  • An innovative framework for automating peer review. 🌊
  • Preprint InternVL3.5: Advancing Open-Source Multimodal Models in Versatility, Reasoning, and Efficiency,
    Weiyun Wang, Zhangwei Gao, Lixin Gu, Hengjun Pu, Long Cui, Xingguang Wei, Zhaoyang Liu, Linglin Jing, Shenglong Ye, Jie Shao, Zhaokai Wang, Zhe Chen, Hongjie Zhang, Ganlin Yang, Haomin Wang, Qi Wei, Jinhui Yin, Wenhao Li, Erfei Cui, Guanzhou Chen, Zichen Ding, Changyao Tian, Zhenyu Wu, Jingjing Xie, Zehao Li, Bowen Yang, Yuchen Duan, Xuehui Wang, Songze Li, Xiangyu Zhao, Haodong Duan, Nianchen Deng, Bin Fu, Yinan He, Yi Wang, Conghui He, Botian Shi, Junjun He, Yingtong Xiong, Han Lv, Lijun Wu, Wenqi Shao, Kaipeng Zhang, Huipeng Deng, Biqing Qi, Jiaye Ge, Qipeng Guo, Wenwei Zhang, Wanli Ouyang, Limin Wang, Min Dou, Xizhou Zhu, Tong Lu, Dahua Lin, Jifeng Dai, Bowen Zhou, Weijie Su, Kai Chen, Yu Qiao, Wenhai Wang, Gen Luo.

More preprints under review will be released soon, and some papers can be found on Google Scholar. 📚✨🔍

📖 Educations

  • 2022.09 - 2025.06, Master’s, DASE, East China Normal University (via recommendation)
  • 2018.09 - 2022.06, Undergraduate, School of Software Engineering, Dalian University of Technology

💻 Internships

  • 2025.02 - 2025.06, Research Intern, InternVL Group, Shanghai AI Laboratory , Shanghai, China.
  • 2023.11 - 2025.01, Research Intern, NLP Group, Shanghai AI Laboratory , Shanghai, China.

🏆 Honors and Awards

Honors

  • 2025.05   Outstanding Master’s Thesis Award, East China Normal University
  • 2025.04   Outstanding Graduate, East China Normal University
  • 2022.06   Outstanding Graduate, Dalian University of Technology
  • 2018-21   Outstanding Student, Dalian University of Technology

Competition Awards

  • 2021.01First Place, IBM Modern Architecture Technology Elite Contest China Division
  • 2021.01Fifth Place, Microsoft Imagine Cup China Division
  • 2021.06First Prize, National MathorCup College Mathematical Modeling Challenge
  • 2021.07Second Prize, National China Collegiate Computer Design Contest
  • 2021.03Bronze Medal, 2nd National College Algorithm Design and Programming Challenge

🎖 Scholarships

  • 2022-25   Graduate Academic Scholarship, East China Normal University
  • 2018-22   Academic Excellence Scholarship, Dalian University of Technology
  • 2019-21   Science and Technology Innovation Scholarship, Dalian University of Technology
  • 2021.11   Panasonic Scholarship, Dalian University of Technology

🔍 Services

  • I serve(d) as a reviewer / program committee member for the following conferences, journals:
    • Conferences: SIGIR’25, ACL’25, SIGKDD’25, COLM’25, ICLR’26.
    • Journals: ACL Rolling Review(ARR), Frontiers of Computer Science.