Kai Zhao

Principal Researcher, AI Lab, Workday AI

Joined

May 2024

Names

Kai Zhao (Preferred)

Emails

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****@gsu.edu (Confirmed)

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Personal Links

Career & Education History

Principal Researcher

AI Lab, Workday AI (workday.com)

2025 – Present

Principal Researcher

AI Lab, Walmart AI (walmart.com)

2024 – 2025

Assistant Professor

Department of Data Science, Georgia State University (gsu.edu)

2017 – 2024

Postdoc

Data Science, New York University (nyu.edu)

2015 – 2017

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Sasu Tarkoma

2009 – 2015

Expertise

Machine Learning

2009 – Present

Artificial Intelligence

2009 – Present

Publications

Robust Explanations for User Trust in Enterprise NLP Systems
Guilin Zhang, Kai Zhao, Jeffrey Friedman, Xu Chu, Amine Anoun
- ACL 2026 Industry Track Oral
- Readers: Everyone
Adaptive Memory Admission Control For LLM Agents
Guilin Zhang, Wei Jiang, Xiejiashan Wang, Aisha Behr, Kai Zhao, Jeffrey Friedman, Xu Chu, Amine Anoun
- ICLR 2026 Workshop MemAgents
- Readers: Everyone
How Far Can LLMs Go On Cognitive Health Prediction? A Study On EMA Data
Sambit Mukherjee, Anthony Fu, Kai Zhao, Yang Ren, Dezhi Wu, Chih-Hsiang Yang
- ICLR 2026 Workshop LMRL Poster
- Readers: Everyone
CARTS: Collaborative Agents for Recommendation Textual Summarization
Jiao Chen, Kehui Yao, Reza Yousefi Maragheh, Kai Zhao, Jianpeng Xu, Jason Cho, Evren Korpeoglu, Sushant Kumar, Kannan Achan
- OpenReview Archive Direct Upload
- Readers: Everyone
No-Human in the Loop: Agentic Evaluation at Scale for Recommendation
Tao Zhang, Kehui Yao, Luyi Ma, Reza Yousefi Maragheh, Jiao Chen, Kai Zhao, Jianpeng Xu, Evren Korpeoglu, Sushant Kumar, Kannan Achan
- NeurIPS 2025 LLM Evaluation Workshop Poster
- Readers: Everyone
LayoutAgent: A Vision-Language Agent Guided Compositional Diffusion for Spatial Layout Planning
Zezhong Fan, Xiaohan Li, Luyi Ma, Kai Zhao, Liang Peng, Topojoy Biswas, Evren Korpeoglu, Kaushiki Nag, Kannan Achan
- SpaVLE Poster
- Readers: Everyone
MetaSynth: Multi-Agent Metadata Generation from Implicit Feedback in Black-Box Systems
Shreeranjani srirangamsridharan, Ali Abavisani, Reza Yousefi Maragheh, Ramin Giahi, Kai Zhao, Jason Cho, Sushant Kumar
- LAW
- Readers: Everyone
Spatial Reasoning in Foundation Models: Benchmarking Object-Centric Spatial Understanding
Vahid Mirjalili, Ramin Giahi, Sriram Kollipara, Akshay Kekuda, Kehui Yao, Kai Zhao, Jianpeng Xu, Kaushiki Nag, Sinduja Subramaniam, Topojoy Biswas, Evren Korpeoglu, Kannan Achan
- SpaVLE Poster
- Readers: Everyone
MAREval: A Multi-Agent Framework for Evaluating Natural Language Recommendation Explanations
Reza Yousefi Maragheh, Jayesh Uddhav Kudase, Aysenur Inan, Ramin Giahi, Kai Zhao, Jianpeng Xu, Jason Cho, Evren Korpeoglu, Sushant Kumar
- MTI-LLM @ NeurIPS 2025 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Cross-City Latent Space Alignment for Consistency Region Embedding
Meng Chen, Hongwei Jia, Zechen Li, Wenzhen Jia, Kai Zhao, Hongjun Dai, Weiming Huang
- ICML 2025 poster
- Readers: Everyone

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Co-Authors

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