Bowen Wang

I'm a

2nd

year Ph.D. student at the University of Hong Kong, with deep focus and passion on NLP and fundamental model-based agent. I'm fortunate to get advised by Prof. Tao Yu  and be a part of the XLANG Lab  and HKU NLP Lab. Previously I got my bachlor's degree of Computer Science and Technology at Tsinghua University 
My research focuses on building universal digital agents. I have primarily worked on computer-use agents (CUA), developing open foundations through mid-training and post-training and building open-sourced CUA models. My current research interests lie in digital agentic models, particularly in post-training methodologies for creating generalizable and intelligent agents that can reliably operate across diverse digital environments including coding, computer-use, terminal-use and more.
I have also participated in building open-source foundation models such as Qwen3.5 and Kimi K2.5, and I hope to make computer-use a core capability of frontier models. I believe universal digital agents (UDA) are a path toward AGI. If you would like to talk about research or life, feel free to reach out. I'm open to opportunities.

Experiences

  1. Company
    Apple AI/ML
    Role
    Research Scientist Intern
    Advisor
    Advisor: Zhe Gan
    Description
    Digital Agent Research
    Date
  2. Company
    Qwen Team, Alibaba Group
    Role
    Research Scientist Intern
    Advisor
    Advisor: Binyuan Hui & Junyang Lin
    Description
    Post-training in CUA
    Date
  3. Company
    Moonshot AI
    Role
    Research Intern
    Advisor
    Advisor: Hao Hu & Flood Sung
    Description
    Post-training in CUA
    Date

Education

  1. Company
    The University of Hong Kong
    Role
    Ph.D. Student
    Date
  2. Company
    Tsinghua University
    Role
    B.E. in Computer Science
    Date

Selected Publications

Computer Agent Arena: Evaluating Computer-Use Agents via Crowdsourcing from Real Users

Bowen Wang*, Xinyuan Wang*, Jiaqi Deng*, Tianbao Xie, Ryan Li, Yanzhe Zhang, Zicheng Gong, Gavin Li, Toh Jing Hua, Ion Stoica, Wei-Lin Chiang, Diyi Yang, Yu Su, Yi Zhang, Zhiguo Wang, Victor Zhong, Tao Yu

ICLR'26 [Website]

OpenCUA: Open Foundations for Computer-Use Agents

Xinyuan Wang*, Bowen Wang*, Dunjie Lu, Junlin Yang, Tianbao Xie, Junli Wang, Jiaqi Deng, Xiaole Guo, Yiheng Xu, Chen Henry Wu, Zhennan Shen, Zhuokai Li, Ryan Li, Xiaochuan Li, Junda Chen, Boyuan Zheng, Peihang Li, Fangyu Lei, Ruisheng Cao, Yeqiao Fu, Dongchan Shin, Martin Shin, Jiariu Hu, Yuyan Wang, Jixuan Chen, Yuxiao Ye, Danyang Zhang, Yipu Wang, Heng Wang, Diyi Yang, Victor Zhong, Y. Charles, Zhilin Yang, Tao Yu

NeurIPS'25 (Spotlight)COLM'25 AIA Workshop (Best Paper Award)[Website][Paper][Code]

AutoTask: Executing Arbitrary Voice Commands by Exploring and Learning from Mobile GUI

Bowen Wang*, Lihang Pan*, Chun Yu, Yuxuan Chen, Xiangyu Zhang, Yuanchun Shi

ArXiv[Paper]

Technical Reports

Qwen3.5: Towards Native Multimodal Agents

The Qwen Team, Alibaba Group.

2026Technical Report[Paper]

Kimi K2.5: Visual Agentic Intelligence

The Kimi Team.

2026Technical Report[Paper]

Kimi-VL Technical Report

Kimi Team: Angang Du, Bohong Yin, Bowei Xing, Bowen Qu, Bowen Wang, Cheng Chen, Chenlin Zhang, Chenzhuang Du, Chu Wei, Congcong Wang, Dehao Zhang, Dikang Du, Dongliang Wang, Enming Yuan, Enzhe Lu, Fang Li, Flood Sung, Guangda Wei, Guokun Lai, Han Zhu, Hao Ding, Hao Hu, Hao Yang, et al.

2025Technical Report[Paper]

Honors & Awards

  1. 2025
    Workshop Best Paper Award, COLM 2025 AIA workshop
  2. 2025
    Research Postgraduate Student Innovation Award, The University of Hong Kong
  3. 2023
    Research and Innovation Scholarship, Tsinghua University
  4. 2022
    2-nd Prize, Challenge-Cup Competition Award, Tsinghua University

Talks

  1. 2025
    Language Agents, University of Tasmania