Haoquan Zhang
张皓泉

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Hi, I'm Haoquan, a fresh phd student affiliated with SphereLab, CUHK, advised by Weiyang Liu. I am also a visiting student at Westlake University, advised by Yandong Wen. Previously, I was an intern at Shanghai AI Lab, mentored by Kaipeng Zhang.

My research interests are Agentic AI and visual generation. In Agentic AI, I explore environment and reward design to equip agents with more general capabilities. I also do benchmarking to define the capability boundaries of agentic AI. You can check our work at Agent-X. In visual generation, I focus on understanding and improving the generation process for better visual synthesis.

I'm also intrigued by the representations learned by models. I believe it is crucial to carefully observe and analyze these internal structures to better understand the inner mechanisms of neural networks.

News

2nd Apr 2026
TIR-Bench is used by Qwen3.6-Plus ! Check out our homepage for the leaderboard!
19th Sep 2025
Our paper To Think or Not to Think has been selected as a Spotlight at NeurIPS 2025! Congrats to my friend Ming Li.

Research

Experiences

Nov 2024 – Jul 2025
Shanghai AI Lab · Research Intern
Mentored by Kaipeng Zhang
Sep 2024 – Present
Westlake University · Visiting Student
Advised by Yandong Wen