Zhenhailong Wang

Experience

05/2025 - 08/2025, Amazon Alexa AI
- Applied Scientist Intern
- Mentor: Amin Fazel, Ritesh Sarkhel, Xiang Li, Xing Fan, Heng Ji
- Focus: Multimodal Instruction Following and Policy Internalization
06/2024 - 01/2025, Salesforce AI Research
- Research Intern
- Mentor: Senthil Purushwalkam, Congying Xia, Ran Xu.
- Focus: Efficient Variable-length Visual Encoding
05/2023 - 08/2023, Microsoft Research Asia
- Research Intern
- Mentor: Tao Ge, Shaoguang Mao, Wenshan Wu.
- Focus: Large Language Models, Multi-persona Collaboration
05/2022 - 08/2022, Tencent AI Lab
- Research Intern
- Mentor: Xiaoman Pan, Dian Yu, Jianshu Chen.
- Focus: Retrieval Augmented Generation
01/2022 - 05/2022, Microsoft Research
- Collaboration on project VidIL
- Working with Ruochen Xu, Luowei Zhou, Shuohang Wang, Ziyi Yang, Chenguang Zhu.
- Focus: Video-Language Understanding
07/2020 - Present, BLENDER Lab
- Graduate Research Assistant
- Advisor: Prof. Heng Ji
- Focus: Large Multimodal Models and Multimodal Agents
09/2019 - 08/2020, RAAMAC Lab
- Undergraduate Research Assistant
- Advisor: Prof. Mani Golparvar-Fard
- Focus: Robotics

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Ph.D. in Computer Science, 2023 - Present; Advisor: Prof. Heng Ji
- M.S. in Computer Science, 2021 - 2023; Advisor: Prof. Heng Ji
- M.S. in Civil Engineering, 2019 - 2021; Advisor: Prof. Mani Golparvar-Fard
- GPA: 3.98/4.0
Zhejiang University
- B.S. in Civil Engineering, 2016 - 2020
- GPA: 3.92/4.0
- Zhejiang Province Government Scholarship (<2%)
- Acadamic Scholarship (<8%)

12/6/2022: Microsoft Research NLP PhD Student Invited Talk (Knowledge and Language Team)
2/16/2023: AI-Time Neurips 2022 Event
3/9/2024: LLM and AI Agent Reading Group
Fall 2024: Teaching Assistant for CS 546: Advanced Topics in Natural Language Processing, with a guest lecture on LLM-based Agents.
7/20/2025: Talk at Ploutos AI