Biography
Hi! My name is Hao Zhang (张豪). I am currently a senior research scientist at Alibaba DAMO Academy (Singapore R&D Center), working on multimodal large language models. My research interests primary focuses on developing novel techniques, including RAG, agents, complex reasoning and data synthesis, to enhance the capabilities of multimodal LLMs and apply them to address real-world challenges.
Prior joining Alibaba DAMO Academy, I served as a principal engineer at Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab for around two years. I earned my PhD in Computer Science from the College of Computing and Data Science at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore in July 2022, under the supervision of Professor Aixin SUN. Before that, I obtained my M.Sc degree from the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at NTU in June 2016.
Research Community Services:
Area Chair: ACL Rolling Review
Reviewer: ACL Rolling Review, ACL, EMNLP, COLING, ICLR, AAAI, IJCAI, WWW, KDD, SIGIR, MM
Co-organizer: Interactive Recommendation System Workshop, WSDM 2023
- (Multimodal) Large Language Models
- (M)LLM Reasoning
- (M)LLM Analysis
- RAG and Agent
PhD in Computer Science, 2019-2022
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
MSc in Communications Engineering, 2015-2016
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
BEng in Communications Engineering, 2011-2015
Dalian University of Technology, China
Experience
Senior Research Engineer/Principal Investigator, Centre for Frontier AI Research, Jan 2022 - May 2022
Research Engineer, Institute of High Performance Computing, Jun 2018 - Dec 2021