Hi! My name is Hao Zhang (张豪). I am currently a Senior Research Scientist at Balyasny Asset Management L.P. (BAM), working on financial AI and modeling. My research interests primarily focus on developing techniques—including agent harness, agentic AutoML, alpha/feature mining, causal reasoning, financial reasoning, and reinforcement learning—to enhance the capabilities of financial models and apply them into trading and addressing real challenges.

Before joining BAM, I was a Senior Research Scientist at Alibaba DAMO Academy (Singapore R&D Center), where I worked on multimodal LLMs for over a year, and a Principal Engineer at Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab for approximately two years. I earned my Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence from the College of Computing and Data Science at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore in July 2022, under the supervision of Professor Aixin Sun. I also hold an M.Sc. degree from the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at NTU, completed in June 2016.

Research Community Services:
Area Chair: ACL Rolling Review
Reviewer: ACL Rolling Review, ACL, EMNLP, CVPR, ECCV, NeurIPS, ICLR, AAAI, IJCAI, WWW, KDD, SIGIR, COLING, MM
Co-organizer: Interactive Recommendation System Workshop, WSDM 2023