Victor Zhong

Assistant Professor, Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Joined

November 2016

Names

Victor Zhong (Preferred)

Emails

****@victorzhong.com (Confirmed)

****@salesforce.com (Confirmed)

****@cs.washington.edu (Confirmed)

****@uwaterloo.ca (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Assistant Professor

Computer Science, University of Waterloo (uwaterloo.ca)

2024 – Present

Postdoc

Microsoft (microsoft.com)

2023 – 2024

PhD student

University of Washington (washington.edu)

2018 – 2023

Research intern

Facebook (facebook.com)

2019 – 2019

Research Scientist

SalesForce.com (salesforce.com)

2016 – 2018

MS student

Stanford University (stanford.edu)

2014 – 2016

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Luke Zettlemoyer

2018 – 2023

Manager

Richard Socher

2016 – 2018

MS Advisor

Chris Manning

2014 – 2016

Expertise

natural language processing

Present

machine learning

Present

Publications

SynQuE: Estimating Synthetic Dataset Quality Without Annotations
Arthur Chen, Victor Zhong
- Accepted by TMLR
- Readers: Everyone
From Atomic to Composite: Reinforcement Learning Enables Generalization in Complementary Reasoning
Sitao Cheng, Xunjian Yin, Ruiwen Zhou, Yuxuan Li, Xinyi Wang, Liangming Pan, William Yang Wang, Victor Zhong
- SPOT
- Readers: Everyone
SynQuE: Estimating Synthetic Dataset Quality Without Annotations
Arthur Chen, Victor Zhong
- ICLR 2026 Workshop DATA-FM
- Readers: Everyone
Computer Agent Arena: Toward Human-Centric Evaluation and Analysis of Computer-Use Agents
Bowen Wang, Xinyuan Wang, Jiaqi Deng, Tianbao Xie, Ryan Li, Yanzhe Zhang, Junli Wang, Dunjie Lu, Zicheng Gong, Gavin Li, Toh Jing Hua, Wei-Lin Chiang, Ion Stoica, Diyi Yang, Yu Su, Yi Zhang, Zhiguo Wang, Victor Zhong, Tao Yu
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
SYNQUE: Estimating Synthetic Dataset Quality Without Annotations
Arthur Chen, Victor Zhong
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
Test-Time Adaptation for LLM Agents via Environment Interaction
Arthur Chen, Zuxin Liu, Jianguo Zhang, Akshara Prabhakar, Zhiwei Liu, Shelby Heinecke, Silvio Savarese, Victor Zhong, Caiming Xiong
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
How well can LLMs provide planning feedback in grounded environments?
Yuxuan Li, Victor Zhong
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
OpenCUA: Open Foundations for Computer-Use Agents
Xinyuan Wang, Bowen Wang, Dunjie Lu, Junlin Yang, Tianbao Xie, Junli Wang, Jiaqi Deng, Xiaole Guo, Yiheng Xu, Chen Henry Wu, Zhennan Shen, Zhuokai Li, Ryan Li, Xiaochuan Li, Junda Chen, Zheng Boyuan, LI PEIHANG, Fangyu Lei, Ruisheng Cao, Yeqiao Fu et al. (14 additional authors not shown)
- NeurIPS 2025 spotlight
- Readers: Everyone
Spider 2.0: Evaluating Language Models on Real-World Enterprise Text-to-SQL Workflows
Fangyu Lei, Jixuan Chen, Yuxiao Ye, Ruisheng Cao, Dongchan Shin, Hongjin SU, ZHAOQING SUO, Hongcheng Gao, Wenjing Hu, Pengcheng Yin, Victor Zhong, Caiming Xiong, Ruoxi Sun, Qian Liu, Sida Wang, Tao Yu
- ICLR 2025 Oral
- Readers: Everyone
Spider2-V: How Far Are Multimodal Agents From Automating Data Science and Engineering Workflows?
Ruisheng Cao, Fangyu Lei, Haoyuan Wu, Jixuan Chen, Yeqiao Fu, Hongcheng Gao, Xiong Xinzhuang, Hanchong Zhang, Wenjing Hu, Yuchen Mao, Tianbao Xie, Hongshen Xu, Danyang Zhang, Sida Wang, Ruoxi Sun, Pengcheng Yin, Caiming Xiong, Ansong Ni, Qian Liu, Victor Zhong et al. (3 additional authors not shown)
- NeurIPS 2024 Track Datasets and Benchmarks Spotlight
- Readers: Everyone

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