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Curriculum Vitae of Zikai Xiao — Ph.D. student at Zhejiang University and research intern at the Qwen Team.

Contact Information

Name Zikai Xiao
Professional Title Ph.D. Student @ Zhejiang University · Research Intern @ Qwen Team
Email zikai@zju.edu.cn

Professional Summary

Ph.D. student in Computer Science and Technology at Zhejiang University and research intern at the Qwen Team (Alibaba), working on large language models — LLM agents and environments (web-agent RL, world models) and long-context LLMs.

Experience

  • 2024 - present

    Hangzhou, China

    Research Intern
    Qwen Team, Alibaba
    Agentic reinforcement learning and world models for the Qwen models.
    • Core contributor to Qwen3.7 (“The Agent Frontier”): browser-domain agentic RL environment, training data, and LLM-based reward pipeline for long-horizon tool use.
    • Core contributor to Qwen-AgentWorld, the first language world model simulating 7 agentic domains from 10M+ trajectories.
    • Built WebWorld (ICML 2026), the first open-web world model series (8B/14B/32B, Apache 2.0): +9.9% MiniWob++ / +10.9% WebArena.
    • Led LongWeave (EMNLP 2025), a verifiable benchmark for real-world long-form generation.

Interests

Large Language Models: LLM Agents & Environments, Web-Agent RL, World Models, Generative Environments, Long-Context LLMs, Long-Form Generation

Education

  • 2022 - 2027

    Hangzhou, China

    Ph.D.
    Zhejiang University
    Computer Science and Technology
    • Ph.D. in Computer Science and Technology (expected Jun 2027).
  • 2018 - 2022

    Wuhan, China

    B.Eng.
    China University of Geosciences
    Automation