Hello! This is Zhaopeng (pronounced: /dʒaʊ pʌŋ/). In August 2026, I will join the School of Computing (SoC) at the National University of Singapore (NUS) as a PhD candidate, supervised by Prof. Bryan Hooi. I’m currently a research intern at Alibaba Tongyi Lab (DeepResearch Team), advised by Xinyu Wang (王新宇).

My current research interests lie in Agent Context Learning and Reinforcement Learning for Agents, with a particular focus on small language models. Previously, my research focused on Large Language Models (LLMs), specifically in Reinforcement Learning, post-training, and LLM-based applications in Machine Translation. I am a highly self-motivated and quick learner with strong communication, collaboration, and practical engineering skills. I am driven by a desire to pursue research directions that are both general and impactful. If you are seeking any form of cooperation, please feel free to email me at zhaopengfeng424@gmail.com.

I earned my Master’s degree from Zhejiang University, advised by Prof. Zuozhu Liu (刘佐珠) and Prof. Jian Wu (吴健). Prior to that, I earned my Bachelor’s degree in Automation from the Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen (HITSZ). As an undergraduate, I had the valuable opportunity to be a research intern at the City University of Hong Kong under the guidance of Prof. Shiqi Wang (王诗淇) . I’ve also been fortunate to gain industry experience at Alibaba and Xiaohongshu, and to collaborate with incredible mentors like Yu Cao (曹宇) , and Shaosheng Cao (曹绍升). I have also worked with Prof. Haizhou Li (李海洲), Yan Zhang (张琰) and Baoliang Chen (陈宝亮), whose guidance has been invaluable.

Outside of research, I am a strong believer in knowledge sharing. I previously co-operated the DLNLP community, which grew to over 100,000 subscribers. In 2024, I started my own academic paper-sharing account on Xiaohongshu (Rednote), “nlper今天读paper了吗”, which has quickly grown to a community of over 15,000 followers. I also stay active and energized through sports. I’m a certified National Level 2 Basketball Referee🏀, a fitness enthusiast🎽, a runner👟, and a former competitive rower🚣.