Kai Zou

Founder CEO, AI, NetMind.AI

Founder CEO, AI, Protagolabs Inc

Joined

May 2022

Names

Kai Zou (Preferred)

Emails

****@georgetown.edu (Confirmed)

****@protagolabs.com (Confirmed)

****@netmind.ai (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Founder CEO

AI, NetMind.AI (netmind.ai)

2021 – Present

Founder CEO

AI, Protagolabs Inc (protagolabs.ai)

2017 – Present

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

Coauthor

Xiangpeng Wan

2023 – Present

Coauthor

Michael Shiqi Xu

2023 – Present

Coauthor

Xing Di

2022 – Present

Coauthor

Jason Wei

2019 – Present

Expertise

Multimodal

2021 – Present

Language Model

2017 – Present

Publications

VerlTool: Towards Holistic Agentic Reinforcement Learning with Tool Use
Dongfu Jiang, Yi Lu, Zhuofeng Li, Zhiheng Lyu, Ping Nie, Haozhe Wang, Alex Su, Hui Chen, Kai Zou, Chao Du, Tianyu Pang, Wenhu Chen
- SPOT
- Readers: Everyone
VerlTool: Towards Holistic Agentic Reinforcement Learning with Tool Use
Dongfu Jiang, Yi Lu, Zhuofeng Li, Zhiheng Lyu, Ping Nie, Haozhe Wang, Alex Su, Hui Chen, Kai Zou, Chao Du, Tianyu Pang, Wenhu Chen
- ICLR 2026 Workshop RSI Poster
- Readers: Everyone
VerlTool: Towards Holistic Agentic Reinforcement Learning with Tool Use
Dongfu Jiang, Yi Lu, Zhuofeng Li, Zhiheng Lyu, Ping Nie, Haozhe Wang, Alex Su, Hui Chen, Kai Zou, Chao Du, Tianyu Pang, Wenhu Chen
- ICLR 2026 AIWILD
- Readers: Everyone
VerlTool: Towards Holistic Agentic Reinforcement Learning with Tool Use
Dongfu Jiang, Yi Lu, Zhuofeng Li, Zhiheng Lyu, Ping Nie, Haozhe Wang, Alex Su, Hui Chen, Kai Zou, Chao Du, Tianyu Pang, Wenhu Chen
- LLA 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
VisCoder2: Building Multi-Language Visualization Coding Agents
Yuansheng Ni, Songcheng Cai, Xiangchao Chen, Jiarong Liang, Zhiheng Lyu, Jiaqi Deng, Kai Zou, Ping Nie, Fei Yuan, Xiang Yue, Wenhu Chen
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Dual Contrastive Inversion with Distributional Priors for Diversity-Aware Data-Free Knowledge Distillation
Jun Bai, Di Wu, JiaWeiWang, Lingling Li, Yue Li, Wencheng Yang, Kai Zou, Yan Li
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
Verl-Tool: Towards Holistic Agentic Reinforcement Learning with Tool Use
Dongfu Jiang, Yi Lu, Zhuofeng Li, Zhiheng Lyu, Ping Nie, Haozhe Wang, Alex Su, Hui Chen, Kai Zou, Chao Du, Tianyu Pang, Wenhu Chen
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
Math Blind: Failures in Diagram Understanding Undermine Reasoning in MLLMs
Yanpeng Sun, Shan Zhang, Wei Tang, Aotian Chen, Piotr Koniusz, Kai Zou, Yuan Xue, Anton van den Hengel
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
BrowseComp-Plus: A More Fair and Transparent Evaluation Benchmark of Deep-Research Agent
Zijian Chen, Xueguang Ma, Shengyao Zhuang, Ping Nie, Kai Zou, Sahel Sharifymoghaddam, Andrew Liu, Joshua Green, Kshama Patel, Ruoxi Meng, Mingyi Su, Yanxi Li, Haoran Hong, Xinyu Shi, Xuye Liu, Nandan Thakur, Crystina Zhang, Luyu Gao, Wenhu Chen, Jimmy Lin
- MTI-LLM @ NeurIPS 2025 Spotlight
- Readers: Everyone
BrowseComp-Plus: A More Fair and Transparent Evaluation Benchmark of Deep-Research Agent
Zijian Chen, Xueguang Ma, Shengyao Zhuang, Ping Nie, Kai Zou, Sahel Sharifymoghaddam, Andrew Liu, Joshua Green, Kshama Patel, Ruoxi Meng, Mingyi Su, Yanxi Li, Haoran Hong, Xinyu Shi, Xuye Liu, Hosna Oyarhoseini, Nandan Thakur, Crystina Zhang, Luyu Gao, Wenhu Chen et al. (1 additional authors not shown)
- ICLR 2026 Conference Withdrawn Submission
- Readers: Everyone

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