Scholar
Chaoyun Zhang
Google Scholar ID: 5h9KUFIAAAAJ
Microsoft
Citations & Impact
Citations
4,773
H-index
26
i10-index
39
Publications
20
Co-authors
7
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Two papers accepted at NeurIPS 2025, one at ASE 2025
- One paper accepted at ACL 2025, one at KDD ADS 2025
- Two papers accepted at ICLR 2025, one at NAACL 2025 (UFO paper)
- Released work on Large Action Models, covered by media outlets such as Jiqizhixin and XinZhiYuan
- Published a comprehensive 90+ page survey on LLM-powered GUI agents covering 500+ papers, reported by Jiqizhixin
- Led development of UFO²: a next-generation AgentOS for Windows desktop with HostAgent/AppAgents architecture, hybrid control detection, and cross-application orchestration, widely covered in media
Background
- Principal Researcher in the Data, Knowledge and Intelligence (DKI) group at Microsoft
- Current research focuses on GUI Agents and Computer-Using Agents (CUAs) powered by large language models to enhance user experiences on computer systems
- Previously worked on AIOps projects using both traditional and LLM-based approaches to drive innovation and technology transfer at Microsoft
- Core developer and maintainer of UFO, the first GUI agent for Windows OS
- Maintains a public survey on large language model-powered GUI agents
