Chao Zhang

Assistant Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology

Joined

December 2020

Names

Chao Zhang (Preferred)

Emails

****@gatech.edu (Confirmed)

****@gmail.com (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Assistant Professor

Georgia Institute of Technology (gatech.edu)

2019 – Present

PhD student

University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign (illinois.edu)

2013 – 2018

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Jiawei Han

2013 – 2018

Expertise

No areas of expertise listed

Publications

Accelerating Scientific Discovery with Autonomous Goal-evolving Agents
Yuanqi Du, Botao Yu, Tianyu Liu, Tony Shen, Junwu Chen, Jan G. Rittig, Kunyang Sun, Yikun Zhang, Cassandra Masschelein, Yingze Wang, Haorui Wang, Haojun Jia, Chao Zhang, Hongyu Zhao, Martin Ester, Teresa Head-Gordon, Carla P Gomes, Huan Sun, Chenru Duan, Philippe Schwaller et al. (1 additional authors not shown)
- P-AGI
- Readers: Everyone
Accelerating Scientific Discovery with Autonomous Goal-evolving Agents
Yuanqi Du, Botao Yu, Tianyu Liu, Tony Shen, Junwu Chen, Jan G. Rittig, Kunyang Sun, Yikun Zhang, Cassandra Masschelein, Yingze Wang, Haorui Wang, Haojun Jia, Chao Zhang, Hongyu Zhao, Martin Ester, Teresa Head-Gordon, Carla P Gomes, Huan Sun, Chenru Duan, Philippe Schwaller et al. (1 additional authors not shown)
- Gen² 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Accelerating Scientific Discovery with Autonomous Goal-evolving Agents
Yuanqi Du, Botao Yu, Tianyu Liu, Tony Shen, Junwu Chen, Jan G. Rittig, Kunyang Sun, Yikun Zhang, Cassandra Masschelein, Yingze Wang, Haorui Wang, Haojun Jia, Chao Zhang, Hongyu Zhao, Martin Ester, Teresa Head-Gordon, Carla P Gomes, Huan Sun, Chenru Duan, Philippe Schwaller et al. (1 additional authors not shown)
- GEM 2026
- Readers: Everyone
Exploration-Driven Optimization for Test-Time Large Language Model Reasoning
ChangHao Li, Yuchen Zhuang, Chenxiao Gao, Haotian Sun, Rushi Qiang, Chao Zhang, Bo Dai
- Accepted by TMLR
- Readers: Everyone
Towards Better Instruction Following Retrieval Models
Yuchen Zhuang, Aaron Trinh, Rushi Qiang, Haotian Sun, Chao Zhang, Hanjun Dai, Bo Dai
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
MLE-Smith: Scaling MLE Tasks with Automated Multi-agent Pipeline
Rushi Qiang, Yuchen Zhuang, Anikait Singh, Percy Liang, Chao Zhang, Sherry Yang, Bo Dai
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
scREBOUND: An Efficient Design of single-cell Foundation Model with Batch Representation
Ziqi Zhang, Chandra Sekhar Reddy Edula, Chao Zhang, Xiuwei Zhang
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
Precise Attribute Intensity Control in Large Language Models via Targeted Representation Editing
Rongzhi Zhang, Liqin Ye, Yuzhao Heng, Xiang Chen, Tong Yu, Lingkai Kong, Sudheer Chava, Chao Zhang
- ICLR 2026 Conference Desk Rejected Submission
- Readers: Everyone
Two-Step Offline Preference-Based Reinforcement Learning on Explicitly Constrained Policies
Yinglun Xu, Tarun Suresh, Rohan Gumaste, David Zhu, Ruirui Li, Zhengyang Wang, Haoming Jiang, Xianfeng Tang, Qingyu Yin, Monica Xiao Cheng, Qi Zeng, Chao Zhang, Gagandeep Singh
- Accepted by TMLR
- Readers: Everyone
WebAgent-R1: Training Web Agents via End-to-End Multi-Turn Reinforcement Learning
Zhepei Wei, Wenlin Yao, Yao Liu, Weizhi Zhang, Qin Lu, Liang Qiu, Changlong Yu, Puyang Xu, Chao Zhang, Bing Yin, Hyokun Yun, Lihong Li
- WCUA 2025 Poster
- Readers: Everyone

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Co-Authors

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