Bowen Wang

I'm a

2nd

year Ph.D. student at the University of Hong Kong, advised by Prof. Tao Yu. 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.

What's New

  • 05/2026: We're thrilled to release CUA-Gym, check it out! We'll gradually release the full data and models, stay tuned.
  • 05/2026: New blog post: We Spent a Year Building Verifiable Training Tasks for GUI Agents.
  • 05/2026: New blog post: Towards Universal Digital Agents.
  • 02/2026: Computer Agent Arena was accepted to ICLR'26 as a poster (top 3%). See you in Brazil 🇧🇷!
  • 12/2025: Joined the Qwen team, advised by Binyuan Hui and Junyang Lin — hoping to build open-sourced computer-use agents.
  • 10/2025: OpenCUA was accepted to NeurIPS 2025 as a Spotlight.
  • 09/2025: OpenCUA received the Best Paper Award at the COLM AIA workshop.

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

CUA-Gym: Scaling Verifiable Training Environments and Tasks for Computer-Use Agents

Bowen Wang, Dunjie Lu, Junli Wang, Tianyi Bai, Shixuan Liu, Zhipeng Zhang, Haiquan Wang, Hao Hu, Shuai Bai, Dayiheng Liu, Que Shen, Junyang Lin, Tao Yu

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]

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

The Kimi Team.

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