Wenshuo Zhao

About

Hello！I am Wenshuo Zhao (赵文硕 in Chinese), a final year undergraduate majoring in Computer Science and Technology at Zhejiang University. I am expected to graduate in 2026. My research interests focus on Natural Language Processing, LLM Reasoning, Multi-agent and Data Visualization. I achieved a GPA of 90.8/100 (ranking 1/191 in the third year), demonstrating strong academic performance. I'm working closly with Prof. Junxian He and Prof. Chuang Gan.

I am passionate about research!

Awards

Oct 2025 National Scholarship

May 2025 Campus Star. Award for the Ten Most Outstanding Students in the College of Computer Science and Technology

Oct 2024 Golden Prize in the 14th "Challenge Cup" QinChuangYuan Platform National College Students' Entrepreneurship Competition (The top 260 teams out of more than 390,000 and I'm the leader of my team)

Aug 2024 National Third Prize in China Collegiate Computing Contest - AIGC Innovation Competition

Apr 2024 Project Leader of the National College Students' Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Program

Dec 2023 Third Prize in the Physics Innovation Competition for University Undergraduates of Zhejiang Province

Oct 2023 Scholarship of Leading Achievements in Chu Kochen Honors College

Sep 2023 Zhejiang University Scholarship-First Prize

Education

Zhejiang UniversitySep. 2022 - Present

B.S. in Computer Science and Technology

Publications

Preprint

The Tool Decathlon: Benchmarking Language Agents for Diverse, Realistic, and Long-Horizon Task Execution

Junlong Li*, Wenshuo Zhao*, Jian Zhao*, Weihao Zeng*, Haoze Wu*, Xiaochen Wang, Rui Ge, Yuxuan Cao, Yuzhen Huang, Wei Liu, Junteng Liu, Zhaochen Su, Yiyang Guo, Fan Zhou, Lueyang Zhang, Juan Michelini, Xingyao Wang, Xiang Yue, Shuyan Zhou, Graham Neubig, Junxian He

Under Review

Mirage or Method? How Model–Task Alignment Induces Divergent RL Conclusions

Haoze Wu*, Cheng Wang*, Wenshuo Zhao, Junxian He

Under Review

Steering LLM Thinking with Budget Guidance

Junyan Li, Wenshuo Zhao, Yang Zhang, Chuang Gan

Under Review

K-Function: Joint Pronunciation Transcription and Feedback for Evaluating Kids Language Function

Shuhe Li*, Chenxu Guo*, Jiachen Lian, Cheol Jun Cho, Wenshuo Zhao, Xuanru Zhou, Dingkun Zhou, Sam Wang, Grace Wang, Jingze Yang, Jingyi Xu, Ruohan Bao, Elise Brenner, Brandon In, Francesca Pei, Maria Luisa Gorno-Tempini, Gopala Anumanchipalli

Under Review

2025

MuTIS: Enhancing Reasoning Efficiency through Multi-Turn Intervention Sampling in Reinforcement Learning

Wenshuo Zhao, Haoxing Zhai, Xinyu Qiu, Zhenting Qi, Shuhe Li, Linchao Zhu

EMNLP 2025

CAT: Causal Attention Tuning For Injecting Fine-grained Causal Knowledge into Large Language Models

Kairong Han, Wenshuo Zhao, Ziyu Zhao, Ye Jun Jian, Lujia Pan, Kun Kuang

EMNLP 2025

InsightChaser: Enhancing Visual Reasoning of Sports Tactical Visualization with Visual-Text Linking

Ziao Liu, Wenshuo Zhao, Xiao Xie, Anqi Cao, Yihong Wu, Hui Zhang, Yingcai Wu

Vis 2025

2024

Smartboard: Visual Exploration of Team Tactics with LLM Agent

Ziao Liu, Xiao Xie, Moqi He, Wenshuo Zhao, Yihong Wu, Liqi Cheng, Hui Zhang, Yingcai Wu

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 2024

***( * indicates equal contribution )***

Resume

Full CV in PDF.

HKUST NLP Group May 2025 - Present

Research Assistant (Advisor: Junxian He)
Agentic AI
Umass Feb. 2025 - Present

Research Assistant (Advisor: Chuang Gan)
LLM Reasoning Efficiency
ZJU-Scaling Logger Nov. 2024 - Aug. 2025

Undergraduate Intern (Advisor: Linchao Zhu)
LLM RL Training and Reasoning Efficiency
CausalML Lab Jul. 2024 - Feb. 2025

Undergraduate Intern (Advisor: Kun Kuang)
LLM Attention Mechanism
Interactive Data Group Aug. 2023 - Jun. 2024

Undergraduate Intern (Advisor: Yingcai Wu)
LLM Agent and Data Visualization
Zhejiang University Sep. 2022 - Present

B.S. in Computer Science
Computer Science and Technology